Scanners that probe brain activity and heart rate are among the next generation of biometric security sensors being developed by the EU. As part of an EU-backed trial, volunteers were sat in front of ...

Visa and Mastercard have chips embedded in hundreds of millions of credit and debit cards around the world. They're used in more than 200 countries and process billions of payments each year. And they ...

Headquartered in Spartanburg, SC, Integrated Biometrics was founded in 2002 as an alternative solution to the commonly used traditional optical and silicon fingerprint technologies. Our stable and ...

Cross Fujitsu's palm with silver and you'll get a biometric scanner — pictured in our CeBIT 2005 gallery — that identifies people by looking at the veins in the hands. The infrared scanner, the ...

Employees love new tech too and do their jobs better with it. Hotels that forget about empowering employees with better tools aren't helping maximize their performances. Smart hotels realize their ...

Just because you only paid $300 for your netbook doesn’t mean you don’t store sensitive financial or work-related data on it. So while it might seem silly to add to the cost of a mini-laptop by ...

Employees say it's unclear how far the data collection will go. A person with knowledge of the system says it's optional and is limited to fingerprints.

Biometric systems have been touted as the next big thing in computer security for the past several years, despite the fact that some of them—fingerprint scanners, for example—have proven to be ...

The words “biometric fingerprint scanning” are never going to fill seats or win fans. It’s a technical phrase that sounds boring, and we’ve been seeing biometric scanners in odd electronics for years ...

We should all be familiar with biometric scanners in smartphones by now. While sometimes it can ultimately work against us, biometric recognition is making its way into the mainstream, offering an ...

Without you necessarily realizing it, your unique attributes — or "biometrics" — are being used to verify your identity. Every time you unlock your smartphone, use a fingerprint scanner at the airport ...

Doctors in Brazil are using phony silicon fingers to fool biometric scanners. Sneaky? Sure. But you really gotta hand it to them. We all know passwords suck – they’re hard to remember, a pain in the ...