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 ...

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. Fifty is ancient for most technologies, but barcodes are still going strong.

Forty years ago today, a cashier at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, scanned a 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum bearing an odd-looking set of alternating black and white lines. The barcode had ...

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 ...

Joe Woodland invented the bar code-- that collection of lines and numbers used to ring up your groceries every time you visit the supermarket -- and after the longtime IBMer passed away earlier this ...

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 ...

If there was any doubt that the Nikon D90 D-SLR was coming your way, and a Best Buy stock record wasn't enough after a Circuit City inventory screen didn't sway you, then perhaps a snapshot of the ...

ONTARIO, CA — IAPMO® has made the 2025 Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC®) and Uniform Mechanical Code (UMC®) technical committee meeting monographs available for download. All individuals anticipating an ...

ONTARIO, CA — Nebraska Gov. Pete Ricketts has approved legislation that officially updates the state’s default plumbing code to the 2018 Uniform Plumbing Code (UPC). The legislation, LB 131, includes ...