Sony is set to present and explain its new cassette tapes at the INTERMAG Europe 2014 international magnetics conference, being held this week in Dresden, Germany. There, Sony will explain how it ...

Sony's new method means you could cram 185TB onto a single cassette tape. The average Blu-Ray disc holds 50GB and a standard PC hard drive 1TB.

As of April 30, 2014, Sony's solution brings about the new world's highest areal recording density for tape storage media – 148 Gb/in2 (gigabits per square inch).

Sony Corporation introduced the Walkman in July of 1979. It went on to sell more than 200 million of the portable cassette players. An entire generation became addicted to headphones and mix tapes ...

Stupid hipster 80s fetishism notwithstanding, cassette tapes don’t get much love. That’s a shame, because magnetic tape is still a surprisingly robust way to back up data. Especially now: Sony ...