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.

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Boulder – Jonathan Baldino might be off the “nice” list. Police say Baldino used homemade bar codes to buy electronic gadgets at prices far below any ...

Some technologies you use every day, but without thinking about them. The bar code is one of these: everything you buy has one of these black and white striped codes on it. We've all seen how they are ...

In the wake of 2008 product scares involving melamine-tainted pet foods, lead-tainted toys, and melamine-tainted milk products, all originating in China, consumers in the U.S. understandably became ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...