Sam Altman's startup, Tools for Humanity, has raised hundreds of millions of dollars on a futuristic premise: using eyeballs to prove someone is human in the age of AI. The question is whether that ...

Scientists found that protein deposits in the retina create unique light patterns for different brain diseases in humans.

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 ...

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 is opening six U.S. retail locations for eyeball scans: Austin, Atlanta, Los Angeles, Nashville, Miami and San Francisco. The Orb, a spherical biometric device, scans your face and iris, then ...

CLARKSBURG, W.Va. – As the FBI celebrates 100 years of success in its fingerprint lab – formally the Biometric Services Section – leaders have an eye toward the future as advances in science and ...

For the first time, scientists have identified a marker in the retina that may lead to the development of Parkinson’s disease, and it may be detected years prior to diagnosis. Researchers out of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...