You bought the tickets. You took a screenshot. You figured that was enough. Then you got to the gate and the scanner rejected you. This is happening at concerts, arenas, and sporting events across the ...
You have scanned a QR code on a package. You have scanned one on a menu, a receipt, a poster. But researchers at multiple universities around the world have spent the last few years working on ...
You have been brushing your teeth the same way your whole life. Two minutes, twice a day, soft bristles, spit, rinse. Dentists have been telling you this since kindergarten. The toothbrush has not ...
If you drop your student off at the University of Kentucky this year, there is a chance they are walking into their residence hall not with a key card, not with a tap of their phone, but with their ...
You pick up a bottle of supplements at the pharmacy. The seal looks fine. The box looks fine. You take it home, open it, and never think twice about whether someone got there before you. That is about ...
The barcode has been on grocery products since 1974, when a pack of Wrigley’s chewing gum became the first item ever scanned at checkout in Troy, Ohio. For more than 50 years, that little grid of ...
Google shipped Android 17 this year with six new Advanced Protection features and twelve additional security upgrades built into the operating system. Most Android users have no idea any of this ...
They have been called “Glassholes.” They have been called “pervert glasses.” They have been banned from bars, gyms, and dressing rooms. And as of last week, the state of California decided not to do ...