Up until now, the creepy verification tool that requires people to scan their eyeballs to confirm their identity has mostly toiled on the very outer edges of mainstream awareness. But, according to ...

A San Francisco start-up backed by Sam Altman uses iris scans to verify human identity without requiring users to supply personal information, such as, their names, emails and phone numbers. But some ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Worldcoin, the Sam Altman-backed oddball venture vying to use an ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In August 2025, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement indicated its intent to purchase artificial intelligence technology that ...

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 ...

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 ...