Steven Spielberg knows aliens. Though he hasn't made as many UFO-centric movies as you might assume (he's made more movies about WWII than he has about extraterrestrials), the director behind Close ...

The takeaway: Although fingerprint authentication has known security limitations, modern laptops, tablets, and smartphones continue to rely on it for device unlocking and passkey authentication. As ...

Phone security has evolved well past requiring PIN numbers and passcodes to unlock them. These days, phones have biometrics, a form of identification that uses a person's unique traits to grant them ...

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Identity recognition is probably the least important function our fingerprints might serve ...

This 12,000-year-old butterfly clay bead was decorated with red ochre and marked with the fingerprints of a child. Laurent Davin Archaeologists in Israel have analyzed a trove of clay beads and ...

It comes as no surprise that within the first 90 seconds of Young Sherlock, we're treated to a bare-knuckle boxing scene. It's one of director Guy Ritchie's signature moves, and although he isn't the ...

The TSA is proposing changes to how it stores and uses biometric data for PreCheck applicants. Proposed updates include sharing fingerprints with Customs and Border Protection to streamline Global ...

The latest Android 16 update brings back the Screen-off Fingerprint Unlock feature to Pixel phones. The feature was introduced in Android 16 DP2 for the Pixel 9 series, but later expanded to older ...

2025 was a year that posed a lot of questions for movie lovers: Did the success of Sinners prove that there was still a mass audience hungry for original (read: non-IP) stories on a blockbuster level?

Since the dawn of modern fingerprinting, lifting prints from bullet casings has been thought to be impossible due to damage caused by the intense temperatures, gas, and friction of firing a gun. A new ...

Researchers at Maynooth University have achieved a forensic milestone by revealing fingerprints on fired bullet casings using a safe electrochemical process. The method uses mild voltage and non-toxic ...

Filmmaker Harry Basil (Back by Midnight) was a regular on the San Antonio stand-up comedy scene throughout the late '90s and 2000s. However, he had never heard about the urban legend of the ...