HONG KONG, Aug. 18 -- Futronic Technology Company Limited, a global provider of fingerprint recognition software and hardware products, announces the successful development and implementation of a ...

Researchers have figured out how to recreate a person’s fingerprints from just the sound they make while swiping a touchscreen. The discovery, made by a team from the US and China, could have profound ...

Fingerprints, also called dermatoglyphs, develop as early as three months of gestation and are entirely unique to each individual. It’s why they are commonly used as a form of biometric security to ...

The iPhone 5s is equipped with a fingerprint authentication sensor, and by touching the home button, you can lock / unlock the terminal and authenticate at the time of purchasing the application. What ...

The words “biometric fingerprint scanning” are never going to fill seats or win fans. It’s a technical phrase that sounds boring, and we’ve been seeing biometric scanners in odd electronics for years ...

If you have ever had your fingerprints taken for a job, license, or background check, you probably assumed it was a simple box to check. You show up, get printed, and move on with your life. Most ...

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HONOLULU (KHON2) — A growing number of Hawaii public schools are using finger-scanning technology to speed up lunch lines.

As the world watched the FBI spar with Apple this winter in an attempt to hack into a San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone, federal officials were quietly waging a different encryption battle in a Los ...

Samsung's next Galaxy S phone is rumored to have an optical fingerprint scanner. Samsung manufacturing partner Synaptics just announced one of its own. Coincidence? Gordon Gottsegen CNET contributor ...

Each individual's fingerprints are unique—the tiny loops, ridges and whorls on the epidermis are even more distinctive than a person's DNA and are one of the best ways we have of identifying a person ...