Ho-hum. You may even find yourself, as I did on Wednesday night, standing in a crowded room in the Marina district, gazing into a glowing white sphere known as the Orb, having your eyeballs ...

The startup, called World (formerly Worldcoin), is launching in the U.S. with the distribution of 20,000 tech devices called Orbs that scan a person's retina to verify they are human. After ...

Like, born-with-a-belly-button real? America, meet the Orb: a bold new attempt to verify you’re not a bot − just by looking you in the eye. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle.

Sam Altman’s controversial blockchain project, World, is launching in the U.S. – and said it intends to roll out 7,500 eye-scanning “orbs” in cities across the country by the end of the year.

That’s why Suttles is now launching a new tool called Orb that measures latency, packet loss, jitter, and speed to give you a measure of how stable your internet connection is. Suttles ...

The company will open six Apple-like stores in cities across the US, including one in San Francisco, where the floor around a wooden structure holding about eight orbs was being polished on ...

Hanako usually responded to messages right away, but Asayama waited for about 30 minutes and still received no reply. “It’s getting late, so I will go home,” Asayama said in a message to Hanako.

The sci-fi-sounding initiative uses an orb to scan your iris to create your very own World ID, which the company describes as a “digital passport.” In return for registering, you get some free ...

Sam Altman co-founded the startup behind World in 2019. Chris Jung/NurPhoto via Getty Images The “Orb,” a silver, basketball-sized device that scans human irises to generate and store unique ...