The EU and the UK are rolling out QR codes that allow people to travel again during the pandemic. The systems both involve Chinese-style encoding of personal information into scannable codes. Insider ...

Chinese Internet giant Alibaba is continuing its embrace of quick-response (QR) codes today with the news that it’s partnering with Israeli startup Visualead to launch a new QR code-style format that ...

QR code style markers — those lil’ barcode-looking boxes you’ll see on ads from time to time, meant to be scanned with your phone to launch some website or app — have yet to really find their footing ...

Software built into the cameras on iPhones and Android phones make quick work of decoding QR codes. How do you do that on a laptop or desktop computer?

In July, Google introduced a redesign of the Android QR code scanner, but rolled it back. The updated interface is now starting to reappear.

Amazon's first physical clothing store makes heavy use of touchscreens and QR codes. Customers can use an app to do things such as requesting items without leaving a fitting room. The shop is the ...

German stamps will soon be kitted out with individual matrix codes to help stop letters getting lost in the mail, national postal company Deutsche Post said Tuesday. Customers will be able to use the ...

I would say that it is getting hard to avoid those fugly little QR codes lately. But GGP malls is challenging lovers everywhere to hunt for the codes in a Valentine’s Day promotion. Beginning this ...

Don’t call it a comeback. By Lora Kelley Roy Healy’s first tattoo wasn’t the kind people usually regret, like a future ex’s name or a quotation in a language one can’t read. Still, he was nervous ...

Like many ambitious restaurants around town, the newly opened Pastore leaves no detail unturned: Customers are handed cold towels that chill in a fridge set precisely at 40 degrees, white tablecloths ...

It’s been a long time since we’ve logged into a UNIX mainframe (other than our laptop) but one of our fond memories is the daily fortune: small, quirky, sometimes cryptic sayings that would pop up on ...