Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference this week, you see QR codes. The square “quick response” codes turn URLs, vCards, or any kind of text into a jumble of pixels that you can scan ...

Quishing is proving effective, too, with millions of people unknowingly opening malicious websites. In fact, 73% of Americans admit to scanning QR codes without checking if the source is legitimate.

Costco is planning to deploy scanners at store entrances as a way to curtail non-members’ use of membership cards, the company announced. The members-only warehouse began testing the scanning of ...

Back when the PalmPilot was a New Thing, I remember opining in some now-defunct business magazine that a perfect PDA would have a business card scanner built in. I wasn't quite prescient enough to ...

Learn how to scan QR codes directly on your laptop or desktop using browser-based tools like 2scan.net. This easy guide explains how to decode QR codes from images, screenshots, PDFs, and ...