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 ...

Do you wish that your Windows laptop or even your desktop had biometric fingerprint security like Apple’s fancy MacBook Pro with Touch Bar? Guess what: it can, and you won’t even need to overpay for a ...

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 ...

Windows 10 has a lot of great features in it, but one in particular requires new hardware: Windows 10’s Hello biometric login and authentication system. If you don’t have a fingerprint sensor or ...

Have a recent Samsung phone and a Windows 10 PC? Life's about to get a bit easier. Samsung has updated its Flow app to let you use the fingerprint reader on Galaxy devices running Android Marshmallow ...

I review a lot of laptops here at PCWorld, and I’m always surprised when I unbox one without biometric hardware. Fingerprint readers and infrared (IR) cameras for facial recognition are both great—and ...