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 ...

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 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 ...

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, ...

Fingerprint unlocking, with all its flaws and sensitivities, is an increasingly popular way to unlock your smartphone. That method is headed to your front door, too. Smart locks are beginning to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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It’s 2024 and the vast majority of Chromebooks don’t have fingerprint sensors. Biometric authentication has become the norm on smartphones, but most ChromeOS users are still typing in a password.