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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 year — to create a global identity verification ...

This month, a mysterious store selling a vision of the future opened its doors in downtown San Francisco's Union Square district. A cryptic message appeared on the storefront window: “World is the ...