Mastercard has unveiled a new credit card that incorporates a fingerprint scanner built right into the bottom of the card. In an effort to make payments a more seamless experience and improve security ...

Step 1. Insert credit card. Step 2. Put your thumb on it. Step 3. Walk away with your purchase. At least that's the goal of new technology from MasterCard, which uses finger- or thumbprints directly ...

Visa and Mastercard have chips embedded in hundreds of millions of credit and debit cards around the world. They're used in more than 200 countries and process billions of payments each year. And they ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SmartMetric, Inc. (OTCQB: SMME): Having spent years of research and development, SmartMetric has created what is considered to be one of the most advanced and leading-edge ...

Paper-thin fingerprint scanners could soon make cell phones, USB memory, and credit cards more secure. The new scanners, developed by Nanoident Technologies, a startup based in Linz, Austria, detect ...

Membership has its privileges at Costco, and in a bid to keep it that way, the retail giant is piloting a new way to keep non-members out of its stores. Costco is testing card scanners at the ...