Even as a kid, I could see the visual difference between TV sitcoms - shot on videotape - and films. Video had a jarring sharpness that, paradoxically, made the picture less real. Films, with much ...

Those dusty shoeboxes in the closet aren’t just taking up space; they are holding fading memories hostage. Prints degrade, ...

Improving field service productivity is top of mind for most industries. It comes as no surprise with the significant shortage of field technicians, with 3 million unfilled jobs expected in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Plenty of people chronicle their lives in pictures and videos. But changing times have also led to changing formats. Film? Forget it. VHS tapes? Who even owns a VCR anymore?! If ...

The biopharma industry spent $90 billion on R&D in 2016, a figure that represents about 20% of total sales. Despite this significant financial investment by the industry and splashy media headlines, ...

Putting the world's most advanced scholarly and scientific knowledge on the Internet has been a long-held ambition for Michael Keller, head librarian at Stanford University. Achieving this goal means ...

In my Scientific American column this month I mused on the increasing urgency of our need, as a species, to rescue everything we’ve ever recorded on magnetic tape. All those billions of hours of VHS ...