Everywhere you look at the South by Southwest conference this week, you see QR codes. The square “quick response” codes turn URLs, vCards, or any kind of text into a jumble of pixels that you can scan ...

Cybersecurity experts say scammers are exploiting the public’s trust in QR codes to steal money and personal information ...

Ever since I installed a barcode-scanning app on my phone, I see QR codes everywhere—so naturally I wanted one of my own. If you're a barcode-scanning fool, the QR code to the left links to my ...

Quick Response or QR Codes are these bizarre-looking, black and white, square bar code thingies that you see everywhere now. You see them in restaurants, on food product packages, in store windows, on ...

Nintendo has added a QR code check-in function to My Nintendo. Everyone with a My Nintendo account has access to a custom QR code, and can use this code to "exclusive My Nintendo member benefits" at ...

My QR code reader was in a loop of error messages and had no intention of snapping out of it. “Hold over QR code…” The real-estate section of our Sunday paper ...

Recently, due to the rise of the smart phone users, many marketers are beginning to jump onto the QR code bandwagon in order to take advantage of this group of new-age consumers. Being a brand with ...

Jaya Saxena is a former correspondent at Eater, and the series editor of Best American Food and Travel Writing. She explores wide ranging topics like labor, identity, and food culture. I’m still not ...