Like most (if not all) Hackaday readers, I like to know how the technology I use works. I’m always amazed, for example, how many otherwise smart people have no idea how the cellphone network works ...

House Democrats are moving to slow the rapid spread of mobile facial recognition and fingerprint tools inside the Department ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...

We’re all storing more information on our mobile devices than ever before, and many of us regularly use smartphones and tablets to perform sensitive operations, such as making in-app payments. When ...

Android 6.0 saw the introduction of fingerprint authentication, a new security feature that allows users to confirm their identify with a single touch. While this new security feature is most commonly ...

A Fingerprint Reader in Windows lets you log into your Windows laptop using your fingerprint. The feature provides biometric credentials to sign in to your account that require you to enter your ...

It's potentially a powerful new tool for law enforcement. A team of Dutch forensic scientists has discovered how to accurately date fingerprints to within one or two days of when they were left on an ...

Some laptop models come equipped with a fingerprint scanner that, when enabled, requires fingerprint identification to log on to Microsoft Windows. This feature adds an additional layer of security, ...

The error can occur because of multiple reasons. You might already be using it for an existing account, it can be stored in the BIOS/UEFI, and when Windows Hello ...