From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Journalist and filmmaker Willem Kootstra reflects on how much the rise of portable audio equipment lead to techniques that no journalist would be without now. During my career as a freelance radio ...

THE HAGUE (AFP) — Tributes rolled in Friday after Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, credited with inventing the audio cassette tape and helping create the compact disc, died at the age of 94. Created by ...

The big picture: Lou Ottens worked his way up the ranks at Philips, eventually overseeing the company's new product R&D division. He led development of the company's first portable tape recorder, the ...

Tributes rolled in Friday after Dutch engineer Lou Ottens, credited with inventing the audio cassette tape and helping create the compact disc, died at the age of 94. Created by Ottens while working ...

Olympus invented the microcassette recorder in 1969, but these devices still help people capture audio information. Some microcassette recorders even have voice activation features that trigger ...

In this photo dated 1988, structural engineer Lou Ottens holding an audio cassette poses for a photo. The Dutch inventor of the cassette tape, Ottens died on March 6, 2021, at the age of 94, according ...