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 ...

Scanning QR codes on your Galaxy S24 allows you to quickly access information embedded in the code, such as website URLs or contact details. This can be done using Google Lens or your phone’s built-in ...

Your smartphone is full of surprises. There's an app if you want to use your phone as a magnifying glass or scanner. Tap or click here for hidden apps on your smartphone and how to find them.

Now that Google is using the two-dimensional bar codes as part of its local businesses listings program, it's all the more reason for an app to help read them. CNET contributor Don Reisinger is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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: ...

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While they may not be the all-in-one solution some had envisioned, QR codes are still very popular. It’s easy to understand why, too — just point your camera or scanner at a QR code, and you’re ...

Since the Coronavirus pandemic outbreak, the QR code technology’s resurgence also began to rise unimaginably as well. Along with many digital advances powered by QR codes, QRTiger, seeing the ...

Here’s one more app you can delete from your iPhone: that QR code and barcode scanner you only occasionally use. With an update rolling out today, Google’s Chrome mobile browser can do the job instead ...

Your smartphone is full of surprises. There's an app if you want to use your phone as a magnifying glass or scanner. Tap or click here for hidden apps on your smartphone and how to find them.

As smartphones have become more and more ubiquitous, so have QR codes. These maze-looking squares are a type of matrix bar code that contains data — usually, QR codes point to a website or open a ...