Those little black and white squares everywhere were created by a Japanese engineer who found inspiration in the most UN ...

From UPI payments to restaurant menus, QR codes have quietly become a huge part of our daily lives. But have you ever wondered where it all began?Long before sm ...

today announced that it has partnered with Taiwanese QR and barcode payments processor JKOPAY, to make their technology accepted at retailers across Japan. JKOPAY is well established as one of ...

Basically nothing about the symbol itself has changed in 50 years. Look at the first barcode, from a 67-cent pack of Wrigley’s gum: It doesn’t seem outdated, because it isn’t outdated.