If your computer has the right hardware, accessing it using your face or your fingerprint can be more secure than traditional ...

So, my wife has an Asus laptop from a few years back that has an IR and web camera integrated and it has Windows Hello enabled so she or I can simply turn it on/wake it from sleep and it 'looks' at ...

Modern Windows PCs often include some kind of biometric hardware, mainly in the form of facial recognition (using infrared cameras) or fingerprint scanning. Both of these features let you use Windows ...

Smartphones have been using biometric authentication like fingerprints and faces long before those became more common on laptops and even desktops. Microsoft's Windows Hello framework is its attempt ...

Windows Hello facial recognition no longer works in poorly-lit rooms This is due to a move Microsoft made to shore up security with the feature The change to require a ‘color camera to see a visible ...

Q: What’s Windows Hello, and should I be using it? A: If you’re like most computer users, getting into your PC involves typing in a password or maybe even a PIN. Windows Hello is akin to what most of ...

Windows Hello is an excellent feature. It lets Windows users use fingerprint, facial recognition, and other biometric details to login into Windows devices. Still ...

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