QR codes are usually associated with ASCII text like URLs or serial numbers, but did you know you can also encode binary data into them ... in a web browser using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript ...

Backdooms is a compressed, self-extracting program encoded entirely within a single QR code ... squeeze a functional HTML program into such a tiny space. This compressed code generates graphics ...

QR codes get a bad rap. Yes they are ugly. Yes they are kind of a pain to scan. But they are a pretty good way of encoding text into an image that you can slurp up at a glance with just a camera.

On Tuesday, a Reddit user named "nhciao" posted a series of artistic QR codes created using the Stable Diffusion AI image-synthesis model that can still be read as functional QR codes by ...

Empoc has introduced QR Encode 1.0 (http://empoc.com/mac-os-x/qr-encode/), a Mac OS X utility for generating QR codes. It requires Mac OS X 10.6 or higher, costs US$2 ...