Barcode Turns 50 But Its Days Might Be Numbered
Barcode turns 50 but its days might be numbered
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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
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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 red-light district