In 2008, the then German interior minister, [Wolfgang Schäuble] had his fingerprint reproduced by members of the German Chaos Computer Club, or CCC, and published on a piece of plastic film ...

The biometric hierarchy for unlocking your smartphone appears to be the following: Physical fingerprint reader, ultrasonic fingerprint reader, optical fingerprint reader, and then below those ...

Qualcomm partners with BOE, one of the world's biggest display makers, to put its 3D Sonic Sensor onto the Chinese company's flexible OLED displays. Shara Tibken was a managing editor at CNET News, ...

You can now start signing in using your fingerprint on your Windows 11 computer, even if it doesn’t have a built-in fingerprint reader. Microsoft has now started rolling out update KB5101684 to ...

When it comes to fingerprint security on a smartphone, slow and inaccurate reads that waste time are the only things worse than having no fingerprint reader at all. For impatient types like me, fast, ...

A scanner used to identify a person's fingerprint for security purposes. After a sample is taken, access to a computer or other system is granted if the fingerprint matches the stored sample. Laptops ...

Need to unlock your phone in the rain? Your next one might have a fingerprint sensor that can do just that. New sensors, which Qualcomm unveiled on Wednesday, have an ultrasonic scanner that can read ...

The numerous leaks of the Samsung Galaxy S10 have led us to believe that Samsung will use an in-display fingerprint reader and ditch the capacitive touchpad versions that have been used for years. We ...

Biometric technologies may soon replace cumbersome passwords, but the U.S. National Institute of Technology is looking out to a time when you won’t even have to press your finger onto a grimy ...

Jess started her career at TechRadar, covering news and hardware reviews. Framework has refreshed its 12-inch convertible ...

Qualcomm is launching a new in-screen fingerprint sensor for smartphones, the “Qualcomm 3D Sonic Sensor Gen 2.” Qualcomm says its ultrasonic fingerprint sensor “will be available in new sizes that are ...

In-screen fingerprint readers were the standard form of Android biometrics on 2019 flagships, and in 2020 we’ll start seeing the second-generation versions of this technology. Qualcomm is hosting its ...