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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

George Joseph Laurer, who revolutionized check-out lines across the world by creating the universal bar code, died earlier this month at his home in Wendell. He was 94. Laurer helped create the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fear not. Science, corporate America, and government bureaucrats are teaming up to keep better tabs on your children by digitizing them better. In a creepy new video from Microsoft and Los Angeles’s ...

A bar in Sacramento, Calif. received backlash after posting a new dress code that some believe unfairly targets African Americans. (Photo: Facebook) A bar in Sacramento, Calif. is under fire for ...

Ronald Schneider, B.S.Pharm., M.H.A.; Jonathan Bagby, R.N., M.B.A., M.S.N.; Russ Carlson, R.N., B.S.N., M.H.A. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65(23):2216-2219. In 1994 ...