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Recent Examples of cassettesEven more profoundly, cassettes democratized access to the act of recording itself since cassette technology required minimal infrastructure and cost.—Oliver Wang, Los Angeles Times, 20 Feb. 2026
Projections of new optical storage archiving systems promise 1PB raw capacity optical cartridges by the 2030’s, compared to the possible 365TB raw capacity cartridge projections for LTO Gen 14.
Officers also recovered spent shell casings from both locations, with a preliminary investigation indicating that the casings were consistent with ammunition found inside the vehicle, according to the release.
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Aurora Beacon-News,
Chicago Tribune,
1 Apr. 2026
According to police, 25 shell casings were recovered.
These white threads are cloaked in sheaths of chitin — the same sugar polymer that forms the tough exoskeletons of beetles, crabs, and lobsters — and can be easily grown in flasks and Petri dishes.
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Big Think,
Big Think,
31 Mar. 2026
Production quirks like volume and pitch changes, multiple beat switches, brash sonic redirections punctuated by everything from samples of glass shattering to synth stabs puncturing through sheaths of filters, make for a kind of chaotic symphony that feels deliriously of the moment.
By contrast, some considerably heavier origami-style folding kayaks have flat planing hulls, and are thus harder to keep going in a straight line.
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Ben Coxworth
March 25,
New Atlas,
25 Mar. 2026
An armada of steely clouds with coal-black hulls was scudding between the rims, while a wash of pale pigments played across the canyon walls in a way that was entirely unfamiliar to me.