Displaying items by tag: Fingerprint

Researchers from Cisco's Talos Intelligence Group say that using fingerprints for security is likely to work about 20% of the time. In the other roughly 80% of cases they tested, Paul Rascagneres and Vitor Ventura said they were able to clone prints that enabled them to bypass the security on different devices.

Come mid-April 2019, when Huawei's P30 and P30 Pro smartphones are delivered to pre-orderers and the public, the world's best smartphone cameras will be unleashed, with the P30 Pro delivering truly astonishing low-light capabilities, ultra-wide angle, ultra-macro, 5x optical zoom, 10x hybrid zoom, 50x digital zoom within an ultra-premium smartphone of impressive proportions.

If you’ve got a Samsung Galaxy S6 or better, a Note 5, an A5, A7 or even any other modern Samsung phone with a fingerprint reader, you can use your fingerprint to unlock a Windows 10 PC.

Australian company Dog & Bone made a name for itself with cool smartphone cases, but now its world-first Bluetooth lock has truly hit it BIG!

If you’ve ever forgotten your password, iris scanners have arrived too, courtesy of Fujitsu in Japan, adding to biometric fingerprint reader features.

At the Huawei Mate7 launch event, I was told that the dual-SIM slots could only have one SIM working at the same time, but while the truth is that both SIM slots can indeed be used at the same time with both showing signal, there is a tiny catch.

Last week I wrote an article about the amazing screen cleaner Mobile Cloth becoming available in Australia through PCRange, and after receiving a review sample in the mail and trying it on smudge-laden screens I own - WOW, it really works!

Sydney-based bank St George has announced it will be one of the world's first banks to allow users to access mobile banking using just their fingerprints.

South Australia Police now have the ability to verify a person's identity in the field by using fingerprint scanning.

I was totally flabbergasted at today's news that Monash City Council was receiving resistance to a simple biometric application for time-and-attendance monitoring.  Wake up people, this stuff has been around for well over ten years.

With the iPad copying the iPhone through the use of an oleophobic screen that still is sadly not impervious to fingerprints, is Apple on the verge of delivering a much more smudge proof solution which some say is similar to that from Amazon's Kindle?

The Government will investigate the use of a variety of "pre-commitment" technologies, including the possible use of a biometric fingerprint, to help track and curb the losses of problem gamblers, Prime Minister Julia Gillard said.