This is why Apple's MacBook Pro Touch Bar will take biometric security mainstream

Apple's new MacBook Pro has introduced us to the interface power and emoji glory of the Touch Bar, but the addition of fingerprint authentication promises to change more than just the laptop's looks. 

By adding fingerprint authentication, the MacBook finally catches up to the iPhone and iPad in the realm of security, while giving users the ability to enhance the privacy around their laptop with a simple gesture.  

"I think it’s practical," Chris Pinion, manager of fraud Solutions at LexisNexis, told Mashable. "Biometrics have become so mainstream with consumers using fingerprint and facial biometrics on their phones and tablets to unlock devices, open apps or make purchases, that adding them to laptops would seem to be a natural fit." Read more...