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 ...

Hand and fingerprint readers cover 80 percent of biometric access control applications. They are complementary, as each meets specific needs in the market. When using these two technologies under a ...

Fingerprint readers and face recognition, along with video surveillance cameras, are changing how universities guard against intruders, with key geometric data stored at the edge. Universities must ...

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, ...

We’ve made so many jokes over the years about the in-display fingerprint reader used in Google’s most recent Pixel phones, because the sensor has been so bad that with every update, folks take to ...

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 ...

The fingerprint reader on your MacBook has a few hidden tricks up its sleeve. Some help with security, while others use the ...

Smartphone makers must perform a delicate balancing act between security and ease of use in their devices. For example, the biometric fingerprint readers on newer phones are usually discussed in the ...

In-display fingerprint readers -- biometric sensors embedded within the screens of many new phones -- are garbage. They must be purged from all future devices unless they get significantly better soon ...

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 ...

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 ...