A car or truck’s vehicle identification number, or VIN, is a combination of 17 letters and numbers. Each vehicle on the road has its own, unique VIN, much like a person’s fingerprint. A VIN can appear ...

An egg carton displaying a sell by date and other numbers printed on the side - JollyPopLA/Shutterstock Somewhere beside or below the expiration date, you'll see a three-digit code that spans anywhere ...

You hear them called out every time you fly, but what do those flight numbers really mean—and how important are they? “Welcome to the boarding area for United Airlines flight 5589 with nonstop service ...

Product bar codes were originally developed to help with inventory tracking and speed up checkout at grocery stores. The relative speed and ease of use of the bar code system, or Universal Product ...

Those long strings of numbers and letters in TV model names actually mean something. We decode the SKUs for every major TV manufacturer, including Hisense, LG, Samsung, Sony, TCL, and Vizio. I’m PCMag ...

Gadget model numbers are a pain to decrypt. Just when you think you’ve figured out what a digit or a letter means the manufacturer changes everything around. Now, thanks to the Retrevo Model Decoder, ...

Testers, start your engines! Apple has posted the public betas of iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and tvOS 14, with betas for macOS 11 Big Sur and watchOS 7 coming soon. As always, avoid installing on your daily ...