Say goodbye to “slide to unlock.” At today’s press conference, Apple introduced the new iPhone 5S with a biometric lock it claims will revolutionize mobile security. Here’s how it works, and what it ...

There it is. On your dashboard. Staring at you, mocking you, making you plot insurance fraud: your car’s check engine light. That little bugger has been on your dash for weeks now and you haven’t been ...

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From Disney World to the smartphone in your pocket, fingerprint scanners have become commonplace these days. Even budget phones sport the tech, sometimes alongside other biometric unlocking options ...

With millions of people traveling during the holidays, it’s a busy time for any airport. Long lines, delays, and pushing your carry-on into a scanner are all things you’ve probably encountered these ...

Microarrays are nothing without their scanners, the instruments that extract the array's data in computer-readable form. Steve Fodor and colleagues at Affymax built the first scanner in 1989, around ...

The just released Galaxy Note 7 has become the first handset from Samsung to feature iris scanning technology, which could possibly pave the way for the company to do away with other security methods, ...

In May, caller-identification service Truecaller launched an AI Voice scanner that it says can “warn users in real-time, on the phone call – if it detects that the voice you are hearing is ...

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Your check engine light can come on a host of reasons, ranging from a loose gas cap to a faulty engine component. If you see a light illuminated on your dashboard, you can use an OBD2 scanner to ...