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Barcode turns 50 but its days might be numbered

The trademark beep as a product is scanned is heard about six billion times per day across the world as around 70,000 items are sold each second

Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan

From blood banks and barcodes to the Super Soaker and the pizza box, here are the fascinating stories behind inventions that changed the world.

MaltaToday editor Matthew Vella’s three-year research of Maltese and British national archives, and over 1,000 newspaper stories pieces together the history of a particular criminal class: ‘Il-Maltin ta’ Soho’. In this excerpt from Passport To Vice, published by Horizons, a firebomb attack on a Soho club owned by ‘Big Frank’ Mifsud shows the scale of violence meted out between the Maltese denizens of London’s...

What was Kleenex originally used for? The product’s fascinating history has ties to Kotex and World War I.

DNCO draws inspiration from graph theory and plus codes to create a data-related identity system for this science and innovation park.

Inventor Joe Woodland drew the first bar code in sand in Miami Beach, decades before technology could bring his vision to life

Milestones in evolution and history

A History of Barcodes, and Looking Ahead Barcodes have been completing transactions and making inventory organization a breeze since the 1970s. A little over 50 years ago (March 31, 1971), leaders from the biggest names in commerce came together and transformed the global economy forever by developing the Global Trade Item Number (GTIN). This numerical code uniquely identifies every single product and is the core of the barcode, the most important supply chain standard in history. Today, the ba...