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 ...

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 ...

On Dec. 12, Synaptics (NASDAQ: SYNA), a company that's bet heavily on building and selling fingerprint scanning technology for use in smartphones, announced that it has gone into mass production on 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 ...