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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You can scan the QR code on your own smartphone without needing a second device. Photo: Getty Images QR codes can be scanned ...

QR codes are everywhere these days-on product packaging, restaurant menus, even tickets and invoices. They make life easier by letting you access links, download files, or make payments with just a ...

You may have noticed that I frequently post QR codes/barcodes when writing about Android programs. That’s because they’re the easiest way to give you a sort of ...

As announced in May, Google has given its default QR code scanner on Android an appreciable redesign. Upon launch (via the Quick Settings Tile or lockscreen shortcut), there’s a nice animation of the ...

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 ...