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, ...

In August 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement indicated its intent to purchase artificial intelligence technology that can scan people's eyes from several feet away to identify immigrants ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Worldcoin’s initial basketball-sized iris-scanning Orb resembles an all-seeing floating eyeball. Worldcoin imagines a not too ...

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 ...

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 ...

World, Sam Altman’s eye-scanning technology for online ID verification, has debuted in the US, promising privacy for those who dare to use it. Users who sign up for the service will also receive ...

Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's eye-scanning venture officially makes its U.S. debut Thursday. Altman co-founded "World" in 2019 — known as Worldcoin until last ...

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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 ...

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