You know that part in every slasher movie when the audience thinks the killer is dead, but he somehow revives himself for a final try? That’s kind of how some technologies work. Take QR codes. Just a ...

Don’t you hate it when you need to scan a QR code, but it’s too far away? That happens much too often, but Google has a solution for it. According to a new report, the built-in Android QR code reader ...

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.

With a little casual hexadecimal memorization and pattern recognition skill, you can become a QR code-reading machine — no pesky computer required! The black and white boxes represent binary 1s and 0s ...