Quick response codes, QR for short, can be used to store many different types of information. For instance, they can store a phone number, a Web address, and even a map location.

THE ubiquituous QR code has been popping up frequently in several advertisements and magazines of late, but what exactly is this code and what does it do?

The Android QR code reader will let you scan passes The latest beta version of the Google Play services (version 23.42 ) is now out, and it brings an update to the Android QR code reader.

It’s an update to the built-in QR code scanner, so you don’t have to download anything. All you have to do is access your QR code reader and point it at the code you want to scan.

Unlike Windows, macOS is yet to offer a pre-installed solution for scanning QR codes on your laptop. However, there are a bunch of QR code readers you can easily get from the Mac App Store.

As soon as I opened the app, I simply placed the QR code inside of the sights and just as instantly it opened a web page in its own browser. If it can’t scan a QR code (which is rare), Scan won’t ...

Did you notice the funny looking black-and-white box on the front of the magazine? It’s called a quick response (QR) code. You probably have seen these square boxes around town on signage ...

The black and white boxes represent binary 1s and 0s, respectively, and it’s read in a zig-zagging pattern up and down the code, starting from the bottom-right corner. Check out this handy guide ...