Samsung and Mastercard are working on a fingerprint payment card

Posted on 04/03/2021 by Engadget

Samsung is collaborating with Mastercard on a biometric scanning payment card with a built-in fingerprint reader, Samsung has announced. The technology appears to be similar to Mastercard's biometric payment cards unveiled in 2017 that let you au...

Qualcomm says its new in-display fingerprint sensor is 50 percent faster

Posted on 11/01/2021 by Engadget

Qualcomm is upgrading one of its in-display fingerprint sensors. The second-generation 3D Sonic Sensor is 77 percent larger than its predecessor. It covers an area of 64 square millimeters (8mm x 8mm) compared with the first version’s 36 square milli...

Samsung’s fingerprint-secured T7 Touch SSD drops to $160 for 1TB

Posted on 03/12/2020 by Engadget

While you may not be leaving home as often as you used to at the moment, security is still important for all of the devices you might carry around, including external storage. Samsung's T7 Touch SSD can keep your data secure until you unlock it via t...

News outlets will digitally watermark content to limit misinformation

Posted on 14/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

In the run-up to the 2020 US election, a group of major media organizations will once again work together to try and clamp down on fake news. The Trusted News Initiative (TNI) is a coalition of blue-chip publishers and Microsoft which have pledged to...

Samsung’s T7 Touch SSD can be locked with a fingerprint

Posted on 08/01/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Security is especially important for portable SSDs, which might carry tons of sensitive information yet end up tossed in a bag. Samsung recognizes this. To make its latest portable SSD more secure, it has added a fingerprint sensor to the new T7 Touc...

Kwikset’s latest smart lock recognizes your fingerprint

Posted on 06/01/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Forget using an app or security code to access your smart lock, Kwikset's new Halo Touch smart lock is fingerprint-enabled. The device stores up to 100 fingerprints (from 50 users) and offers one-touch locking and unlocking.

Qualcomm’s larger in-screen fingerprint sensor could seriously improve security

Posted on 03/12/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Qualcomm took a different approach from the rest of the smartphone industry last year when it announced its 3D Sonic in-display fingerprint sensor. Instead of relying on an optical image of your finger for authentication, the 3D Sonic system uses ult...

Senator urges Uber and Lyft to run fingerprint background checks

Posted on 08/11/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

A senator has called on Uber and Lyft to share details with each other about contractors they've banned to clamp down on dangerous drivers who've been kicked off one platform signing up to the other. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) has also urged t...

WhatsApp’s fingerprint unlock feature finally arrives on Android

Posted on 31/10/2019 by Engadget RSS Feed

Earlier this year, WhatsApp added an extra layer of privacy for iOS users when it enabled support for Touch ID and Face ID. Today, it announced Fingerprint Lock for Android. Now, WhatsApp users can unlock the app with their fingerprint on Android, to...

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