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 ...

"People leave behind all kinds of fingerprints, and the job of a forensic examiner is then to look at a fingerprint and identify a person who could have left it," said Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles ...

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 ...

Police have been using computers to compare fingerprints since Starsky and Hutch were still on the beat. But for most of the two decades since a fingerprint system was installed in San Francisco, ...

A revolution in Florida law enforcement is at hand, using the small but all- telling fingerprint. For much of August, employees of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in Tallahassee were ...

Subjectivity is problematic when evaluating fingerprints, and quality is in the eye of the examiner. But three computer programs used together can give fingerprint grading unprecedented consistency ...