Just before leaving on a trip he bought a laptop on the cheap. He didn’t pay much attention to the features and was disappointed it didn’t have a fingerprint scanner. Working in Linux he uses ...

In 2008, the then German interior minister, [Wolfgang Schäuble] had his fingerprint reproduced by members of the German Chaos Computer Club ... the fingerprint reader’s operation.

A scanner used to identify a person's fingerprint for security purposes. After a sample is taken, access to a computer or other system is granted if the fingerprint matches the stored sample.

Keeping a security lock on any of your electronic devices is an important thing to do. Even with laptops, it’s important to keep a password or PIN so that others cannot unlock it unauthorised.

The Lenovo ThinkPad P16v Gen 2 Mobile Workstation with 32GB of RAM is available from Lenovo for $2,059, which is 50% less ...