John Bisset shares practical broadcast engineering tips, from handy apps and vintage manuals to transmitter-site checklists ...

Why your phone’s camera is secretly a barcode scanner Modern phones treat barcodes and QR codes as just another kind of visual information, so the same camera you use for photos can also read the ...

Most people think of barcode scanners as clunky retail gadgets, not something quietly built into the phone they use every day. Yet modern smartphones ship with powerful tools that can read everything ...

Google updated APIs responsible for the barcode and QR code scanning to allow them to auto-zoom when a possible barcode or QR code is detected. This feature could soon roll out to Android 13 and above ...