Roger Cheng (he/him/his) was the executive editor in charge of CNET News, managing everything from daily breaking news to in-depth investigative packages. Prior to this, he was on the ...

The next wave of iPhone biometric authentication could involve the reading of user fingerprints directly via an Apple fingerprint scanner in touchscreen and displays. That’s according to a newly ...

Samsung hasn’t officially launched its next-gen smartphone, the Galaxy S5, just yet but the comparisons to Apple’s latest model are already starting. The S5 features a fingerprint-reader much like the ...

Qualcomm is poised to revolutionize the future smartphones with its Snapdragon Sense ID, an ultrasonic fingerprint scanner, which is smarter and better than Apple's Touch ID and could possibly aid in ...

As I wrote this weekend, I am one of the unfortunate minority for whom the Touch ID fingerprint scanner on the new iPhone 5S is not working swimmingly. In my case it's been almost a full fail. Of the ...

Samsung is undoubtedly one of the biggest names in storage solutions and this is certainly no exception when it comes to portable SSD devices. With ownership of the devices becoming more common, ...

Many of Apple’s phones (anything from the iPhone 5s to the iPhone 8 Plus), a large chunk of its iPads and even some of its laptops have Touch ID – the firm’s proprietary fingerprint sensing technology ...

Fingerprint scanners have always been vulnerable to hackers who are willing to go the extra mile to bypass them. Over the years, we’ve seen everything from people using Gummy Bears, Play-Doh and more ...