From GIZMODO on 4/10/2018, by Sam Rutherford:

Passwords are pretty archaic. Unfortunately, despite the best efforts of companies including Google, Apple, Facebook and others, no one has figured out a uniform standard that would make it possible to do away with them entirely. Until, perhaps, now.

Read more: https://gizmodo.com/this-new-web-standard-could-finally-kill-the-password-1825141127