Product manufacturers get a manufacturers identification code from GS1 US -- the nonprofit group responsible for setting barcode standards -- and include this number in every UPC code they create.

Since the introduction of native QR code scanning in smartphones, 2D barcodes have become the preferred method of sharing ...

When that first UPC code was scanned ... that I got a tattoo of my latest book’s International Standard Book Number barcode on my arm, the quiet passing of the barcode’s 50th anniversary ...

When that first UPC code was scanned ... that I got a tattoo of my latest book's International Standard Book Number barcode on my arm, the quiet passing of the barcode's 50th anniversary feels ...

A UPC barcode is composed of black vertical lines, which are either thick or thin, to produce a machine-readable version of a 12-digit number along the bottom – a kind of visual Morse Code.

And now, like 10,000 UPC barcodes get scanned every second ... you can add an infinite number of items in a store, and it doesn’t really change anything for a cashier, right?

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 ...