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 ... to be like gold to these thieves.” ...

I visited the World flagship store in San Francisco to see the Orbs for myself. What is Sam Altman up to now and could it ...

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 ...

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 ...

Altman and Alex Blania, a German physics researcher and World CEO, also unveiled a new smaller, eye-scanning orb on Wednesday. Their hope is the more portable eyeball scanner-and-app combo will ...

World made its official U.S. debut, allowing people to scan their eyes in Los Angeles, San Francsico, Austin, Atlanta ...