Scanning QR codes with smartphones is easy. However, sometimes you don’t want to use your smartphone and wish to scan the QR code natively on your computer. The good news is it’s possible to scan QR ...

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 ...

QR codes are used for everything from opening a restaurant menu to making payments: just point your camera at the QR code, and your phone will automatically open the relevant page. But what happens ...

Two-dimensional barcodes called Quick Response codes, or QR codes for short, are used to store data that devices can read. While QR codes are popularly scanned via smartphones, what if you want to ...

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