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Barcode scanners read imprinted bar/matrix code symbologies. Barcodes, also known as universal product codes (UPCs), are machine-readable data representations consisting of a series of contrasting ...

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Barcodes are commonly used to track items like groceries or clothing, but University of Central Florida researchers have developed a special "barcode" to identify much smaller objects: molecules ...

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George Laurer, the US engineer who helped develop the barcode, has died at the age of 94. Barcodes, which are made up of black stripes of varying thickness and a 12-digit number, help identify ...

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