A compact-disc player and four cassette tapes worth $235 were reported stolen Wednesday from a car parked in a business lot in the 2500 block of Commerce Drive, police said. A compact-disc player ...

Lou Ottens, the former Philips engineer who gave the world its first compact cassette tape, has passed away. According to Dutch news outlet NRC Handelsblad, Ottens was 94 when he died on March 6th.

Cars have had DRM-like measures for longer than you might think. Go back to the 1990s, and coded cassette decks were a common way to stop thieves being able to use stolen stereos. Sadly, they became ...

As reported by Dutch publication NRC Handelsblad, the inventor of the compact cassette tape, Lou Ottens has died aged 94. Ottens began working at Philips in 1952 and became the head of product ...