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With Safari on iOS 14, MacOS Big Sur and iPadOS 14, you’ll be able to log onto websites using Apple’s Face ID and Touch ID biometric authentication. That’s a powerful endorsement for technology called FIDO — Fast Identity Online — that’s paving the way to a future without passwords.

Apple disclosed the biometric authentication support in Safari on Wednesday at WWDC, its annual developer conference. “It’s both much faster and more secure,” Apple Safari programmer Jiewen Tan said during one of the WWDC video sessions Apple offered…