If you're like most people, you have several remotes strewn across your living room, each one controlling a different device — a remote for your cable box, one for your TV, another for your TV's ...

Trent Gobble stands at the front of a Spectrum store in Henrietta, opens the camera on his phone and scans a QR code on a sheet of paper stationed on a small stand facing the door. A link pops up, ...