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The original Barcode Scanner app, seemingly mistaken for malware, is getting review-bombed

The Verge

One of the first Android apps — ZXing Team’s Barcode Scanner, an app that predates the first official release of Android itself — is currently getting review-bombed on the Google Play Store. The Google Play Store shows the app was last updated in February 2019. “an Testing out the original Barcode Scanner app on a modern Android phone.

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Manufacturing software startup Retrocasual raises $5.3M to help workers assemble products

GeekWire

Founded in 2019, the Redmond, Wash.-based The software, which works with cameras and other tools such as barcode scanners, also compiles statistics and reports into an analytics dashboard. He co-founded Retrocausal in 2019 with CTO Quoc-Huy Tran and Andrey Konin , chief architect. million investment round.

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How Zebra Technologies prioritizes work-life balance

ComputerWorld IT Management

This growth-oriented, intellectually stimulating environment, combined with a strong focus on work-life balance, led to a low 2019 voluntary turnover rate of only 3.78 percent in an extremely competitive market for IT talent — and contributed to Zebra’s ranking as the #3 midsize company on this year’s Best Places to Work in IT list.

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Destination Spokane: How remote work and new arrivals are changing one tech community

GeekWire

GeekWire documented the phenomenon back in 2019. The startup moved in 2019 from Seattle to Spokane, where he grew up. GoToTags works with technologies including Near Field Communication (NFC), Ultra-High Frequency RFID, and barcodes. GoToTags is profitable, funded by revenue, he said.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Reverse Engineering Smart Meters

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: Wiki space, got bought out and then shut down in January of 2019. And like 100 people join this thing, and everybody started putting in stuff about what they were doing and reverse engineer the robot. And then the company went out of business. So Hash took it upon himself to continue. And then there's other devices too.