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 ...

A Huntington Beach high school ditched hall passes and replaced them with QR codes, leaving some kids uneasy. "My opinion of this whole scanning into the bathroom is definitely unfair," Edison High ...

While they may not be the all-in-one solution some had envisioned, QR codes are still very popular. It’s easy to understand why, too — just point your camera or scanner at a QR code, and you’re ...

An Orange County high school has implemented a digital hall pass for students who want to step away from the classroom to use the bathroom. Edison High School’s new ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Hall passes seem to be a thing of the past ...

Ever since iOS 11, your iPhone and iPad have been able to detect a QR code in the camera frame, and pop up a banner at the top of the screen to open the link embedded within it. This is a great way to ...

The Quick Response code (or QR code) was introduced in 1994, but it never really took off in the US until decades later when the pandemic created a need for a quick, easy, and (most importantly) touch ...