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QR codes are a fully-immersed part of life in 2024. But they got their start 30 years ago in 1994 in Japanese Toyota factories. “They used them as just a quick way to sense, you know, what, what was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. The simple answer, and the one most often provided in online ...

Tanya Candia is an international management expert, specializing for more than 25 years in information security strategy and communication for public- and private-sector organizations. The use of QR ...

Remember when we transitioned from calling it "surfing the internet" to "Googling"? It was one of those moments when technology became so ingrained in our lives that it became a verb. "QR-ing" may be ...

QR codes that were once seen as a convenient shortcut for checking menus or paying bills have increasingly been turned into weapons. Fake delivery texts, counterfeit payment links and malicious codes ...

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 ...