Sick of always forgetting your login credentials? Windows Hello is a security feature that lets you ditch passwords and pins for facial or fingerprint recognition.

With the pandemic undermining traditional work structures and forcing many employees to work from home, many of us have developed an interest in on-the-go working methods. Some people use smartphones ...

Are you frustrated that your fingerprint works to log into Windows 11/10, but gets rejected by the UAC when trying to install an app or make any changes? If so, we understand how bothersome it can be, ...

A fingerprint scanner is a small electronic device that guards your computer from intruders. You place your fingertip on the reader; it scans your fingerprint and compares it to the prints stored in ...

Do you wish that your Windows laptop or even your desktop had biometric fingerprint security like Apple’s fancy MacBook Pro with Touch Bar? Guess what: it can, and you won’t even need to overpay for a ...

PCs, both laptops and even desktops, are finally getting on the biometrics bandwagon. While most new laptops mostly use Windows 10's Hello face recognition, there is a growing number that use ...

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Hopefully you took advantage of Microsoft’s free upgrade offer that allowed consumers to update computers running Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 (and if you didn’t, it’s not too late!). If you did, you ...

Windows Hello, Microsoft’s new biometric authentication feature built-in to Windows 10, promises added security for your PC. The problem is your PC needs to have a fingerprint reader, depth, or iris ...

I'm not too concerned. The fingerprint reader on my work-issued Thinkpad is absolutely fucking worthless and is never able to identify me, so it won't do an attacker much good if they manage to add ...

The introduction of fingerprint scanners in the iPhone popularised secure biometric systems in consumer electronics. But as technology has evolved, the industry has started to call for face scanners ...