From Disney World to the smartphone in your pocket, fingerprint scanners have become commonplace these days. Even budget phones sport the tech, sometimes alongside other biometric unlocking options ...

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Say goodbye to “slide to unlock.” At today’s press conference, Apple introduced the new iPhone 5S with a biometric lock it claims will revolutionize mobile security. Here’s how it works, and what it ...

Microarrays are nothing without their scanners, the instruments that extract the array's data in computer-readable form. Steve Fodor and colleagues at Affymax built the first scanner in 1989, around ...

Security is a big focus in nearly every smartphone these days, and to Samsung, fingerprints are so passé – now, it’s all about the eyes. Is the future really here? That’s what we attempt to find out ...

The marquee feature of the iPhone 5S – the one everybody is talking about – is the new Touch ID fingerprint scanner. Following last night’s iPhone 5S announcement we’ve had some time with the iPhone ...

Rumors have been rife that the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 is poised to house an iris scanner, with reports confirming that the Korean camera module maker Patron is set to supply it. Now, a new Samsung ...