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 ...

Barcode technology makes real-time data collection possible. Despite the multitude of barcodes in existence today, universal product codes remain among the most useful to a small business. Because UPC ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The first modern barcode was scanned 50 years ago this summer – on a 10-pack of chewing gum in a grocery store in Troy, Ohio.

FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2015, file photo, tags with bar codes hang at a facility in Flandreau, S.D. George J. Laurer, whose invention of the Universal Product Code at IBM transformed retail and other ...

In the sprawling ecosystem of modern commerce, a seemingly innocuous string of numbers hides the invisible choreography that turns an artist’s creative vision into a tangible product that reaches ...

Artificial intelligence seems to be everywhere these days, with more companies integrating the technology into their systems and developers across the globe finding new ways to use it, for both good ...

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas-- The very technology that revolutionized retail checkout -- the bar code -- is now being subverted by anti-capitalist protesters who fancy themselves cyberpranksters. The ...

Much has been written and debated about the recently approved changes in New York's bottle-return law. The provision getting most attention is the change that adds the 5-cent deposit to bottled water ...