Biometric security on our personal devices is almost always a good thing. When it works, it’s a fast, convenient, and (largely) secure way of getting into our gadgets. And while fingerprint sensors ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. I’m fully on board with fingerprint scanners in phones. They make sense. Security is as important as ever, so ...

Fingerprint sensors are one of the most popular ways to unlock your devices today, particularly your smartphone. Synaptics is adding to its line of fingerprint sensors to offer more possibilities to ...

Almost all smartphones these days that have a fingerprint sensor hides it under the home button. In other words, in most cases the home button and fingerprint sensor are in a single spot. The Galaxy ...

Today, Synaptics announced their new optical fingerprint sensor - the FS9100, which is capable of high-resolution scanning through 1mm of full cover glass and enables clean button-free industrial ...

Ask anyone to tell you where a smartphone’s fingerprint reader should be and, though the answers will vary, you’ll never be told “off center, right next to the camera lens on the back.” But lo and ...

We have been hearing a lot of rumors about the coming Galaxy S8 smartphone and one of the more interesting and disturbing of them is that the smartphone will ditch the physical home button and have a ...

iOS 7 beta 4 was just released, and it looks like Apple has been tinkering with a few more ideas that could change the way we use the next edition of the iPhone. Developer Hamza Sood discovered code ...

Where we're going, we don't need buttons or circles, just glass. Endless sheets of glass. That is the promise of future smartphone technology, according to Synaptics, a company that builds they ...

Fingerprint scanners on mobile phones have been around for awhile, but they’ve really started to take off recently as the technology behind the scanners has improved. One thing that has still been ...

Security technology firm Sonavation on Tuesday announced a technology allowing ultrasonic fingerprint sensors to be embedded under Corning Gorilla Glass, potentially paving the way for anticipated ...