As more and more products are manufactured via 3D printing, the potential for inferior-quality 3D-printed counterfeit versions of those products rises accordingly. With that in mind, scientists have ...

Whether they're on product packaging, promotional materials or in magazines, most QR codes do the same thing – when a smartphone scans them with its camera, they trigger that phone's web browser to ...

Our lives were made considerably simpler by QR codes, which were developed in 1994 by the Japanese vehicle company Denso Wave. QR codes often include data for a tracker, location, or identification ...

They could be the most ignored bit of technology in today's society, but their real potential could soon be unlocked, and it's pretty cool. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and ...