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 ...

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 ...

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reportedly raised nearly $100 million for his next big project, a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin that will verify users' unique identities by scanning their eyes. After ...

Sam Altman's Worldcoin project is chopping its name in half and debuting a faster, simpler "Orb" to scan the irises of billions of people. Now known simply as "World," the project's long-term goal ...

An Iris-scanning orb can help verify if someone is a human by taking a photo and an eye scan. This is a part of World, an open infrastructure co-founded by Open AI's Sam Altman. NBC News' Camila ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Victoria Craig: Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Tuesday, March 18th. I'm ...

Have you ever wanted a mobile device designed solely to scan your eyeballs? No, that sounds a little creepy? Well, that's too dang bad, because you're getting it anyway. Tools for Humanity, a start-up ...

Sam Altman wants to give every person on the planet free money—or rather free cryptocurrency. It’s a lofty goal that commands a lofty name: Worldcoin. Cofounded by Altman earlier this year, the ...

Usually when OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is in the news, it’s for the tumultuous effects his company’s tech — like ChatGPT and DALL-E — are having on society and the job market. Not so much this week.

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 ...

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 ...

An Iris-scanning orb can help verify if someone is a human by taking a photo and an eye scan. This is a part of World, an open infrastructure co-founded by Open AI's ...