The new fingerprint scanners from Synaptics are capable of reading your fingerprint through display glass, eliminating the need for a cutout or button.

Button of the month: Fingerprint reader buttons on laptops like Apple’s MacBook Pro, Dell’s XPS 13, or Huawei’s Matebook X Pro are a great idea that combine booting up and logging on into a ...

Apple's latest iOS 7 beta includes a reference to a "Biometric Kit," offering the strongest evidence yet that the company's next iPhone will include a built-in fingerprint scanner underneath the ...

Button-based fingerprint scanners can be smarter too. ASUS’ Zenfone 9 and 10, for example, boast mappable gestures to launch apps quickly, drop the notification shade, trigger Google Assistant ...

How the iPhone fingerprint scanner works Apple's new iPhone 5S will be the first widely popular gadget to incorporate a fingerprint scanner as a security measure. It likely won't be the last.

Imagine your iPhone’s home button could also scan your fingerprint at lightning speed. It would know if you’re its owner, but beyond even that, the possibilities are astounding.

Sapphire fingerprint scanner ‘to be embedded in iPhone home button’ Reports from Taiwan suggest new tech for fingerprint scanner, PayPal exec confirms Apple will introduce fingerprint tech ...

It allows users to use the fingerprint scanner as a capacitive home button. Actually, the app works for any Galaxy phone with a fingerprint sensor and is running Android 7.0 or higher.

The Samsung Galaxy S5 has a neat fingerprint sensor built into the home button, much as Apple has with the iPhone 5S. A new report suggests Samsung may beat Apple to the punch in bringing it to ...

These scanners work by using an optical image of your fingerprint, combined with capacitive sensing to detect the presence of a real finger. The falling cost of technology has made these ...