The circumstances had to be just right for the man born William Michael Albert Broad to become Billy Idol. When Broad was still a teenager in school, a teacher wrote the words “William is idle” on one ...

The retail industry is approaching a major inflection point. By the end of 2027, GS1 US’s Sunrise 2027 initiative aims for all point-of-sale (POS) systems to scan 2D barcodes, such as QR codes and GS1 ...

I break down how barcodes work and the information they reveal about products. The moment Trump found out the Supreme Court killed his tariffs Nobel economist warns a dearth of blue-collar jobs is ...

Congress is making another run this year at legislation aimed at more easily digitizing paper tax return forms at the IRS. Reps. Brad Schneider, D-Ill., and Rudy Yakym, R-Ind., this week introduced ...

Smart fridges are a dime a dozen at CES, and LG and Samsung have thoroughly explored what's possible when you connect your fridge to the internet or slap a touchscreen on the front. The new GE Profile ...

GE Profile has launched a brand-new smart fridge at CES 2026, sporting one unique feature we've never seen before. It could forever change the way you shop for groceries and manage other household ...

Python has become one of the most popular programming languages out there, particularly for beginners and those new to the hacker/maker world. Unfortunately, while it’s easy to get something up and ...

Digital driver’s licenses — now being built in many states — have a big problem that almost nobody is addressing: the likelihood that once they make it very frictionless to share our ID, we are likely ...

The Python team at Microsoft is continuing its overhaul of environment management in Visual Studio Code, with the August 2025 release advancing the controlled rollout of the new Python Environments ...