One of the earliest forms of the bar code will celebrate its 40th anniversary Thursday, June 26. On that date in 1974, a 10-pack of Juicy Fruit Gum was scanned for its Universal Product Code (UPC) at ...

Rochester, N.Y., resident Herbert Smith wasn’t aware of the controversy he was about to create when he was moved to post a photo of a local bar’s dress code to his Facebook page. But since he took to ...

Since the 1970s, bar codes have provided a reliable, inexpensive form of machine-readable identification. Although bar coding has numerous benefits, its primary function is to error-proof the ...

When you're talking about data collection, two technologies come to mind: bar code scanning and RFID (radio frequency identification). The former has been a staple in data collection for more than 30 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A sign spells out the dress code for a Jersey City bar. (Photo: Instagram/Yelp) A new bar in Jersey City, N.J., is already racking ...

The opening of a long-awaited Jersey City bar has been marred by a dress code sign that some have interpreted as racist. The sign at The Ashford, which referred to its dress code as “upscale business ...

Some technologies you use every day, but without thinking about them. The bar code is one of these: everything you buy has one of these black and white striped codes on it. We've all seen how they are ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A controversial new dress code at a midtown Sacramento bar is in the spotlight. Some say the new rules are discriminatory, especially against African-Americans. Bar West on J ...

When the Lake County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) in northern Illinois replaced its manual evidence handling procedures with the BEAST (Bar Coded Evidence Analysis Statistics and Tracking) automated ...

A group of academics and business executives is planning to introduce next month a next-generation bar code system, which could someday replace with a microchip the series of black vertical lines ...