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.

But World's backers say the Orb and its "proof of personhood" is addressing a problem that can stymie everything from finance to online dating: bots impersonating people. The Orb "is a privacy ...

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. This week in San Francisco, Tools for Humanity (TFH), a ...

Rich Heley, Tools for Humanity’s Chief Device Officer and a former Apple director, debuted the Orb Mini device during its “At Last” event in San Francisco. The device looks like a smartphone ...

Orb opens today as an app for all major desktop and mobile platforms. It’s designed to give you a deeper, more holistic look at your active internet connection, with real-time monitoring ...

Here’s everything you need to know about the recently launched Orb along with why you might want to ditch traditional speed testing for this new way to measure your internet experience.

We’ll tell you the problem with the new, more sycophantic AIs. Then Kevin takes a field trip to see the unveiling of a new Orb. And finally, we’re opening up our group chats with the help of p ...

Oxbow Lake Baptist Church has a front row seat to the development from across the road. “I think a lot of people in our church are excited about it, too. We talk about it a lot, ya know ...

Sam Altman’s iris-scanning, identify-verification technology startup says it will begin expanding to the US starting May 1 and will launch a phone-like hardware device by next year. Those ...

At the heart of World's technology is the Orb, a metallic, spherical device designed to scan users' irises and generate unique digital IDs stored on the blockchain. The Orb is positioned as a ...

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 ...

Those who scan their eyes at a World orb will receive 16 WLD. Meanwhile, people who have downloaded and already registered with the World app in the US will receive a “pioneer grant” of 150 ...