George Hogan has a mission: to stop the Apex Police Department from renewing its contract with Flock, which sells automatic license plate readers (ALPRs), or cameras that track cars by license plate ...

Massachusetts drivers are reviving a piece of the state’s visual past, and doing it with surprising enthusiasm. The RMV’s “MA250” license plates, introduced to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the ...

License plate recognition technology is having issues distinguishing between the numbers zero and eight on Pennsylvania's newly designed license plates, officials acknowledged on Wednesday. The issue ...

The breakthrough is often credited to Scottish inventor John Logie Baird—but the real history is far more complicated and collaborative. John Logie Baird with his transmitting station on March 19, ...

Many years ago, my brother-in-law was renovating an 18th-century house in New Orleans. As I spent the day searching through piles of moldy copies of Peanuts comics, I found a (still working!) ...

A new Florida law increases penalties for anything that obstructs a license plate. Florida officials clarified that frames are permissible as long as the plate number and decal are visible. Covering ...

Florida is releasing a new "America 250" license plate to honor the nation's upcoming 250th birthday. The commemorative plate will be offered as an alternative to the standard plate with no extra fees ...

A new Florida law makes it illegal to obstruct any part of a license plate, including numbers and registration stickers. The law targets tinted covers and devices designed to hide plates from law ...

Specialty license plates have been around for decades, but the latest installment that is commemorating the Massachusetts 250 festivities is shattering sales records. So far, more than 29,000 people ...

In the summer of 1956, a group of academics—now we’d call them computer scientists but there was no such thing then—met on Dartmouth College campus in New Hampshire to discuss how to make machines ...

Some 85 years ago, two brothers changed Mexican food—and Tex-Mex—forever. We have José Inés and Fidel Loredo to thank for the carne asada a la tampiqueña, a border-straddling, highly adaptable Mexican ...

A9 dualling campaigner Laura Hansler and Tourist Plate inventor Robert Marshall have tested out the plate while out and about on the roads. Credit to Laura Hansler. Labour plan to cut immigration in ...