Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to ...

Like most (if not all) Hackaday readers, I like to know how the technology I use works. I’m always amazed, for example, how many otherwise smart people have no idea how the cellphone network works ...

Biometric technology has been a game-changer for smartphones. With authentication using physiological characteristics, like fingerprints, we can keep our devices safer than we ever could with ...

No two people are believed to have identical fingerprints, but researchers have found that partial similarities between prints are common enough that the fingerprint-based security systems used in ...

AMES, Iowa – Fingerprints are telling us more and more about the people that left them behind. Sure, we all know the unique whorls, loops and arches in a print can identify a person. But now ...

Pinellas County Sheriff's Office uses a microscopic amount of gold in a Vacuum Metal Deposition Chamber to uncover ...

It is possible to identify an individual's ancestral background based on his or her fingerprint characteristics, new research shows -- a discovery with significant applications for law enforcement and ...

A researcher has created a website that uses your installed Google Chrome extensions to generate a fingerprint of your device that can be used to track you online. It is then possible to track a ...

Fingerprints make humans unique, but what about animals? Here's what we know. The post Did You Know? These Animals Have ...

Weaknesses in the biometric security architecture of Android phones could allow attackers to brute-force an encoded fingerprint, if they have physical access to a targeted phone for hours and have a ...