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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO--Before he starts work every morning, Oscar Carranza waves to a guard, swipes a magnetized card through a computer, and places his hand in a biometric scanner that traces the contours of ...

The iPhone, the Galaxy S6, and a few other high price smartphones have fingerprint sensors for extra security, and authorization of payments; but the tech is expensive, and therefore hasn’t reached ...

Sagem Morpho today introduced the MorphoAccess 521 TWIC compliant biometric reader, a smart card access device that meets Transportation Security Administration (TSA) implementation requirements for ...

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 ...

Smartphones are powerful tools, and with the right apps and accessories, they can become even more so. A California-based tech company has launched a tool that turns a regular iPhone 4 or 4S into a ...