We’re used to seeing QR codes all around the internet and in the real world. They’re a useful tool, but if you’re using the Google camera app on Android 12, then they might be more dangerous than ...

Android malware seems to be everywhere. Every few weeks, we hear of a new set of apps on the Google Play Store that have some kind of malware embedded in them, and this time around it seems like a ...

If your Android device is not scanning a QR code, there could be a number of potential issues at play.

Android comes with a handy dandy QR code reader installed. It’s always at the ready when you need to scan a code. Being a QR code reader, you shouldn’t really expect any added functionality from it.

Before Android 13’s debut, it was reported that the system would gain a native QR code reader. Now, in Android 13 Developer Preview 2, we’ve been able to try out the new QR code reader on our device.

Remember the last time you scanned a QR code? Us neither. The square-shaped sequences of black dots and squares, created in 1994 by the Japanese automotive industry, seemed to be just about everywhere ...

Google's QR code experiment seems to have been concluded, with a promise of new security features to come. The method was similar to Google's two-step log-in process ...

Google today officially confirmed the end of support for QR codes in Places, according to a Blumenthals post. QR codes are small coded squares that a QR reader app on a smartphone can decode into ...

Lots of people like pulling down the notification shade in Android and tapping on Quick Toggles turn certain features on and off in quick succession — think flashlight, for example. In Android 13 ...

What if every store had a bar-code sticker on its window so that you could pull out your iPhone, wave it in front of the bar code and get all sorts of information about that business—the telephone ...

Careful where you point your new headset, Google Glass owners: Like a small child, some graphic images have been known to corrupt the young device's impressionable brain. Researchers at the security ...

Back in April, Google added a very nifty feature to their URL shortener, goo.gl. If you simply add “.qr” to any shortened URL, you will be taken to a page with a QR code for that URL. If you scan that ...