As false claims about where products are made have increased amid the COVID-19 pandemic, an old rumor has resurfaced on Facebook suggesting that a barcode can reveal the country of origin of an item.

Roman Mars’ podcast 99% Invisible covers design questions large and small, from his fascination with rebar to the history of slot machines to the great Los Angeles Red Car conspiracy. Here at The Eye, ...

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 ...

Elisabeth Hall and Kenneth Hall are concerned about identity theft and driver's licenses, at their home in Metuchen. 4/16/15 (Ed Murray | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com) When Elisabeth Hall visited a ...

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 ...

Bar codes are traded all over the world among companies and the codes are not a conclusive way to determine a product’s country of origin. Bar code prefixes are assigned based on the location of the ...

Bar coding is an automatic identification technology that allows data to be collected rapidly and accurately from all aspects of a company’s operations, including manufacturing, inspection, ...

The demise of Shelfie, a tool that allowed customers to link their print books to e-books, got me thinking about bar codes. Obviously, one method of linking print to its digital metadata is through ...