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 ...

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 ...

Screens that scan your eyes, machines that read images of your hands or face, computers you access with your fingerprint instead of a user name and password -- these were once the stuff of science ...

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 ...

Biometric security, at least in theory, has been around for a decade. But the use of biometrics for computer security and user authentication has failed to attract much practical interest to date ...

The tech was rumored to go in the iPhone and Samsung phones, so it's kind of a big deal. Jessica Dolcourt VP, Content Operations and Commerce, CNET Group and CNET Labs Jessica is a passionate content ...

In-display fingerprint sensors were instant hot hardware when they were first introduced in 2018, as major players embraced the ability to hide biometric authentication behind a smartphone’s screen.

LAS VEGAS — As smartphones go all-screen, one design problem has bedeviled everyone from Samsung to Apple: Where to put the fingerprint scanner? At CES, a big tech component maker showed the first ...

The Samsung Galaxy S20 in-display fingerprint scanner is the same as Galaxy S10’s. And, it will be an understatement to say that this is pretty disappointing. According to the tipster Ice universe, ...

The fingerprint reader in the Samsung Galaxy S10 has caused a few issues already, such as incompatibility with some types of screen protectors. The in-display scanner uses ultrasound to read the ...

Qualcomm unveiled new fingerprint sensors that can be placed beneath a phone's display and will even recognize a print underwater. I’m the deputy managing editor of the hardware team at PCMag.com.