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 ...

Now that they're in smartphones, fingerprint scanners seem to be everywhere, but what's really going on behind the scenes when they're scanned?

A fingerprint scanner is a small electronic device that guards your computer from intruders. You place your fingertip on the reader; it scans your fingerprint and compares it to the prints stored in ...

Sick of always forgetting your login credentials? Windows Hello is a security feature that lets you ditch passwords and pins for facial or fingerprint recognition.

A newly launched Iqoo phone is the first to offer a “sliding enrollment” feature for the in-display fingerprint sensor. This allows you to effectively massage the fingerprint scanner to register your ...

Open a gate or unlock your bike at just the press of a finger with Tapplock One+. Photo: Ed Hardy/Cult of Mac The combination lock you used in school is a dinosaur now. It’s been replaced with much ...

Google's Pixel smartphones seem to have had an uncomfortable relationship with in-screen fingerprint scanners for a while now. Late last year, soon after the release of the Google Pixel 6 and the ...

Those of you who own the Google Pixel 6 or 6 Pro will be glad to know that Android 13 will massively improve the fingerprint scanner performance. Well, at least if the latest Android 13 beta is ...

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