If your computer has the right hardware, accessing it using your face or your fingerprint can be more secure than traditional ...

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 ...

With the pandemic undermining traditional work structures and forcing many employees to work from home, many of us have developed an interest in on-the-go working methods. Some people use smartphones ...

PCs, both laptops and even desktops, are finally getting on the biometrics bandwagon. While most new laptops mostly use Windows 10's Hello face recognition, there is a growing number that use ...

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Hopefully you took advantage of Microsoft’s free upgrade offer that allowed consumers to update computers running Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 (and if you didn’t, it’s not too late!). If you did, you ...

Windows Hello, Microsoft’s new biometric authentication feature built-in to Windows 10, promises added security for your PC. The problem is your PC needs to have a fingerprint reader, depth, or iris ...

I'm not too concerned. The fingerprint reader on my work-issued Thinkpad is absolutely fucking worthless and is never able to identify me, so it won't do an attacker much good if they manage to add ...

A lot of users reported that they were unable to set up Windows Hello’s Fingerprint. The Fingerprint sensor fails to recognize the fingerprint, even though it has already been registered. Due to this, ...