Oban just released a new edition of its acclaimed 15-year-old single malt Scotch, which is finished in a port cask. Steps away from the craggy shores of western Scotland, the Oban distillery has been ...

You’ve got a legitimate reason to flinch when you’re peeling off a roll of Scotch tape. That annoying screech is actually tiny cracks traveling at supersonic speeds. An international team of ...

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Scotch tape has been a household mainstay for nearly a century, but it still holds some scientific surprises. Researchers have discovered that the screeching sound emitted when one rapidly peels ...

Typically, when we want to take images, we use an image sensor paired with some sort of lens assembly to make a picture that’s sharply in focus. However, [okooptics] is here to show us there’s another ...

A post on the social media platform Mastodon shows an old tape with the label "UNIX Original from Bell Labs v4 (see manual for format)". Above this photo is a post from Rob Ricci which says, "While ...

The head drum of a six-head NTSC Hi-Fi VHS VCR, with the rotating portion of the head drum elevated for clarity. By Oww. Own work, CC BY 2.5 The head drum of a six-head NTSC Hi-Fi VHS VCR, with the ...

Magnetic tape is seeing something of a revival as a storage medium. The need to protect data against malware, as well as renewed interest in disaster recovery and business continuity, have put tape ...

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Whiskey distillers say their industry is so intertwined that U.S. tariffs will hurt producers on both sides of the Atlantic. By Eshe Nelson Eshe Nelson covers business and economics in Europe. When ...

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