CODE breakers could win a gold bar worth up to £29,000 by cracking a series of ground-breaking challenges. The Royal Mint has launched a brand new £5 coin that’s used to solve a series of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...