Apple last week announced a new flagship iPhone, the iPhone 5s (see “iPhone 5s Announced, Knows You by Touch,” 10 September 2013). From a security standpoint, the most interesting addition to the ...

Like most (if not all) Hackaday readers, I like to know how the technology I use works. I’m always amazed, for example, how many otherwise smart people have no idea how the cellphone network works ...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis and Berkeley have managed to miniaturize medical ultrasound technology to create a fingerprint sensor that scans your finger in 3D. This low-power ...

Google appears to be planning some added security for upcoming Chromebooks. The company’s Chromium code repository mentions a fingerprint sensor for Chrome OS, as first spotted by Chrome Unboxed. Led ...

Later this year, Chromebook owners with the appropriate hardware may be able to unlock their laptops with their fingerprint. Chrome Story recently spotted a new flag in Chrome OS Canary that discusses ...

If you’re a Windows 10 Mobile user, your next phone could be a lot more secure than your current one. Microsoft is planning to add fingerprint scanning support to the operating system, allowing you to ...

On Dec. 12, Synaptics (NASDAQ: SYNA), a company that's bet heavily on building and selling fingerprint scanning technology for use in smartphones, announced that it has gone into mass production on a ...

Samsung has never taken security lightly, and that’s immediately apparent on the Galaxy S8. Not only does Samsung’s latest flagship pack support for a fingerprint, but it supports two other types of ...

Consumers consider fingerprint scanning and smart mirrors are ‘cool’ in-store technologies, which improve the shopping experience but facial recognition software is deemed ‘creepy’ and invasive. Those ...

The introduction of fingerprint scanners in the iPhone popularised secure biometric systems in consumer electronics. But as technology has evolved, the industry has started to call for face scanners ...

Google has a rather interesting idea that combines both facial scanning and fingerprint scanner. In the future, the Pixel 6 series smartphones may be able to scan your face in order to improve ...