Worldcoin’s initial basketball-sized iris-scanning Orb resembles an all-seeing floating eyeball. Worldcoin imagines a not too distant future where the internet is awash with artificial ...

Despite a $2.5 billion valuation and millions of sign-ups, the company is still struggling to show how its eye-scanning "Orb" can make money or win over regulators. The orb is a polished, ...

Just how many ways are there of unlocking your phone? We’ve got passcodes, patterns, fingerprints, and now, thanks to the ZTE Grand S3 — biometric retinal scanning. We’ve seen this tech before, and ...

Mike Pingel, a West Hollywood resident and journalist at the WEHO Times, left, gets an eye scan at World, a company co-founded by Sam Altman that uses orbs to scan eyes to help people distinguish ...

Let’s all give thanks for selfies. Not because they’ve given the vain something to occupy their time, but because without them, we wouldn’t be on the cusp of unlocking our phones merely by looking at ...

(SOUNDBITE) (German) SEMIC RF MANAGING DIRECTOR, WOLFGANG GRUBER, SAYING: "Specialists realized that there is a connection between COVID-19 and the so-called "pink eye syndrome". That is the pink ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Worldcoin, the Sam Altman-backed oddball venture vying to use an eye ...

Sam Altman's startup, Tools for Humanity, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars on a futuristic premise: using eyeballs to prove someone is human in the age of AI. The question is whether that ...

Sam Altman's startup, Tools for Humanity, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars on a futuristic premise: using eyeballs to establish that someone is human in the age of AI. At the center of the ...