For many years, the serial numbers on Apple products have followed a predictable pattern, meaning you could use them to determine the precise model (including colour and storage capacity), and where ...

Pull any bill out of your wallet. See the dark green numbers on the top-left and top-right corners? Those are serial numbers, and some are more rare than others. If you happen to have paper money with ...

That crisp Benjamin in your pocket might be hiding a secret. We're living in an age where ordinary people are discovering ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Barry Collins is a tech journalist writing about PCs, Macs and games. Apple is reportedly set to randomize the serial numbers of ...

There are many ways in which serial numbers are assigned to tags. For read-only tags, a chip manufacturer burns serial numbers into the tags that it produces. For proprietary read-write tags, a user ...

Apple will reportedly be making a change to how it identifies future products. According to a new AppleCare email this week, the company will soon start using randomized alphanumeric serial numbers.

According to MacRumors, Apple will completely change how the serial numbers for Macs are generated. The numbers will soon be fully randomized, meaning that users, IT managers, repair-shop technicians, ...