Sick of always forgetting your login credentials? Windows Hello is a security feature that lets you ditch passwords and pins for facial or fingerprint recognition.

Over the years, manufacturers of Windows PCs have released fingerprint readers and biometric authentication to their laptops, and according to new research, it was found that this could be accessed ...

Fingerprint Cards is launching a new product that will enable secure communication from the company`s industry leading portfolio of fingerprint touch sensors to the host CPU`s protected enclave, ...

Synaptics said this week that it is working with Microsoft to bring touchpads with integrated fingerprint sensors to PC hardware makers, making Microsoft’s Windows Hello technology available to more ...

Synaptics is a name known to many in the industry as a company specializing in interface controllers, like laptop touchpads and mobile touchscreens. Lately, it has also been raising its profile in the ...

Keeping your computer secure is necessary. This is true for older systems, as well as recent ones. Having a fingerprint scanner, in-built or external, helps take personal system security to the next ...

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Instead of using all ten fingers to type in your user names and passwords when you enter a secure web site or log on to your PC, Microsoft wants you to use the tip of just one finger. They're not ...

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Some laptops feature a built-in scanner that links your fingerprint to your logons for accounts and file access. This provides businesses with an additional way to secure critical and sensitive ...