You don't need your phone to open a QR code. You probably already know how to scan a QR code with your phone. It's simple enough: just open the camera app, point your phone at the code, and tap the ...

Among the many changes brought about by the pandemic is the widespread use of QR codes, graphical representations of digital data that can be printed and later scanned by a smartphone or other device, ...

The Quick Response code (or QR code) was introduced in 1994, but it never really took off in the US until decades later when the pandemic created a need for a quick, easy, and (most importantly) touch ...

Remember the last time you scanned a QR code? Us neither. The square-shaped sequences of black dots and squares, created in 1994 by the Japanese automotive industry, seemed to be just about everywhere ...

Many of you reading this have undoubtedly seen a QR (Quick Response) code by now (the thing pictured to the right), but there's just as much -- if not more -- confusion surrounding them today as there ...

Engineers have taken the ordinary QR code and transformed it into a high-end cybersecurity application that can protect the integrity of computer chips using advanced optical imaging and photon-based ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. Among the many changes brought about by the pandemic is the widespread use of QR codes, graphical representations of digital data that ...

QR codes are visual patterns that store data smartphones can read. AP Photo/Vincent Yu Among the many changes brought about by the pandemic is the widespread use of QR codes, graphical representations ...

Among the many changes brought about by the pandemic is the widespread use of QR codes, graphical representations of digital data that can be printed and later scanned by a smartphone or other device.

Among the many changes brought about by the pandemic is the widespread use of QR codes, graphical representations of digital data that can be printed and later scanned by a smartphone or other device, ...

Anatomy of a QR code While it is easy for people to read Arabic numerals, it is hard for a computer. Bar codes encode alphanumeric data as a series of black and white lines of various widths. At the ...