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 ...

Every human on earth has a different fingerprint. Therefore, there is no denying that fingerprint scanners on smartphone should be one of the most secured ways of keeping private data away from a ...

Has Apple managed the fine line between security and convenience? Some security experts aren't so sure. John Caspar, Hamburg commissioner for data protection and freedom of information, told German ...

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 ...

The Pixel 9 Pro Fold also launched yesterday, but that phone includes a side-facing fingerprint scanner, a capacitive one. Now, the three aforementioned Pixel 9 devices use a familiar ultrasonic ...

With the Pixel series, up until now, we’ve relied on a capacitive fingerprint scanner save 2019, where Face Unlock was briefly added to the mix. Because the Pixel 6 is set to include software-based ...

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The Xiaomi 14 Ultra could end up using an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner (under the display, of course). Many other flagships already use this tech. Samsung is, as well as OPPO, and a number of other ...

SecuGen is releasing a biometric fingerprint scanner compliant with the MOSIP L1 authentication specification to support population-scale identity programs.

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