They look innocent, but the combination of cookie, snowman, box, and parachute emojis can be code for "a large batch of cocaine has arrived." A school bus is code for Xanax; a blue heart, ...

There aren’t many fan bases quite as dedicated as Costco’s, so it makes sense that loyal shoppers have cracked the store’s codes over the years—specifically, those involving their pricing and ...

Developer Waldo Jaquith has launched a public beta of Virginia Decoded, an astonishingly user-friendly presentation of his home state’s code. It’s the first iteration of Jaquith’s open-government ...

Morse code is used in telecommunication; it is a method of transmitting and receiving coded information. Each character (letter or numeral) is coded/represented by a unique sequence of dots and dashes ...

It’s the most powerful language in the world, but most don’t understand it. We’re talking about the programming code that dictates how our computers and mobile phones work, and increasingly, even our ...

A U.K.-based program called Decoded promises to teach n00bs to code in a day. Writer Louise Jack (and many ad industry types) signed on to find out if they can walk in with a civilian’s basic web ...