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Larry Ciaccia, the former CEO of AuthenTec, which Apple acquired in 2012, says the company had been working on embedding sensors in glass, plastic, and even underneath laptop trackpads.

As far as security goes, 'Eve' is said to possibly sport a fingerprint sensor, something that could also potentially be used to authorize payments made online. Overall, ...

It’s 2024 and the vast majority of Chromebooks don’t have fingerprint sensors. Biometric authentication has become the norm on smartphones, but most ChromeOS users are still typing in a password.

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But placing the fingerprint sensor under the foldable display means the user will keep having to unfold the handset to unlock it. That can be a problem for mobile payments on a device like the Flip 3.