It's a concept the fictional spy Maxwell Smart would adore: the means to transform the diminutive camera in your cell phone into a portable document scanner. Imagine discreetly photographing contracts ...

A big-time Google upgrade could put an end to the struggle of scanning a QR code from a long way away. Whether it's across the room on a wall or across the highway on a billboard, a new scanner ...

Paying for something with your smartphone may soon become as easy as giving it a passing glance. That’s thanks to the iris-scanning Arrows NX F-04G smartphone, the fruit of a partnership between ...

Faced with pressure by privacy groups, Apple recently said it would delay a controversial plan to scan consumers' devices for child sex-abuse images, but stopped short of renouncing the plan. Instead, ...