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Samsung’s new Galaxy S8 is hitting stores this week and it’s bringing a lot features, design, and screen along with it. The S8 (and its larger sibling, the S8 Plus) is one of the best phones ever made and the best phone you can buy right now. I suggest you read my full review for […]
Our fingerprints are quickly replacing PINs and passwords as our primary means of unlocking our phones, doors and safes. They’re convenient, unique, and ultimately more secure than easily guessed or forged passwords and signatures. So it makes sense that fingerprint sensors are coming to protect our credit and debit cards. MasterCard is testing out new […]
Enlarge Fingerprint sensors are one of the most popular ways to unlock your devices today, particularly your smartphone. Synaptics is adding to its line of fingerprint sensors to offer more possibilities to OEMs for clever material and placement use of its sensors. The company just announced the new FS4600 family of Natural ID fingerprint sensors that’s […]
Samsung probably should’ve thought about holding its Unpacked event a little sooner considering how many photos, videos, and marketing renders of the Galaxy S8 have already leaked. Evan Blass is back tonight — again — with more imagery of the flagship set to be unveiled on March 29th. He already revealed the three colors (black […]
The next step for fingerprint sensors on smartphones is for them to sit under the glass, and that’s rumored to be a feature on Apple’s next iPhone. Vkansee, a startup in New York, has already patented an under-glass optical fingerprint sensor — but the company is utilizing it first with Windows laptops. At Mobile World Congress, […]
Google has added a significant feature to its Chrome OS desktop operating system. The latest version of the dev channel of Chrome OS — version 58.0.3007.0 — lets you unlock your Chromebook using a fingerprint scanner. You can enable the new “Quick Unlock” feature by going to chrome://flags on a Chromebook. From there you can […]
If Apple follows through on one of its patents, the next iPhone might not have a dedicated sensor to read fingerprints. The patent, published today by the US Patent and Trademark office, details an “interactive display with IR diodes.” This would allow Apple devices to read fingerprints directly through the screen, instead of by relying […]
Enlarge / System architecture of a cross-browser tracking system. (credit: Cao et al.) Researchers have recently developed the first reliable technique for websites to track visitors even when they use two or more different browsers. This shatters a key defense against sites that identify visitors based on the digital fingerprint their browsers leave behind. State-of-the-art […]
The scheme kicks off today, and is first being trialled at Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport in Guangdong Province. It will then be rolled out across the country, with all airports using the new system by 2017, according to China’s Ministry of Public Security. All foreign visitors aged between 14 and 70 will have their fingerprints […]
