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Sam Altman's Worldcoin has faced scrutiny in more than a dozen countries because nobody really knows what it does with all those eyeballs.

More Than a Dozen Countries Now Investigating Sam Altman’s Dubious Eye-Scanning Scheme

By Noor Al-Sibai

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was in the news for something entirely unrelated to ChatGPT, so we decided to get to the bottom of it.

I Let Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Scan My Eyeballs With a Orb, and They Didn’t Even Pay Me Crypto

By Noor Al-Sibai

Joseph Cox at Vice fed his voice into an Eleven Labs AI voice cloning tool, which he used to successfully bypass voice biometrics over the phone.

Artificial Intelligence

Journalist Clones His Voice and Uses It to Break Into His Own Bank Account

By Frank Landymore

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station can now add "biometric technician" to their resumes.

NASA Is Scanning Its Astronauts’ Eyes and Veins Aboard the ISS

By Noor Al-Sibai

The HP Omnicept measures biometrics to tell when people are stressed, which could be a good tool for high-stakes job simulations.

Virtual Reality

New VR Headset Reads Your Biometrics to Find Your Breaking Point

By Dan Robitzski

Amazon is working on a system called Orville that would let people pay for things by waving their hands in front of a scanner.

Amazon Wants You to Pay for Things With Your Handprint

By Dan Robitzski

Within four years, 97% of passengers leaving the U.S. will be subjected to airport face scans, according to a new Homeland Security report.

Artificial Intelligence

US Airports Will Scan 97% of Outbound Flyers’ Faces Within 4 Years

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created an AI that can identify a person with 92 percent accuracy after recording just seven consecutive footsteps.

Artificial Intelligence

Tread Lightly: This AI Can Identify You by Monitoring Your Footsteps

By Kristin Houser

VR horror game Bring to Light adjusts gameplay based on feedback from a heart rate monitor

Virtual Reality

This VR Horror Game Is Exactly as Scary as Your Body Can Handle

By Kristin Houser

The Digest: The UK Is Creating a Database of Citizens’ DNA and Other Biometrics

The Digest: The UK Is Creating a Database of Citizens’ DNA and Other Biometrics

By Kristin Houser

14 Smart Clothes and Accessories to Give Your Wardrobe the Tech Treatment

Stormy Daniels Took a Polygraph. What Do We Do With the Results?

Stormy Daniels Took a Polygraph. What Do We Do With the Results?

By Claudia Geib

Dark Future: Here’s When We’ll Have Feedback-Based Online Dating from Black Mirror

Dark Future: Here’s When We’ll Have Feedback-Based Online Dating from Black Mirror

By Alexandra Ossola

Samsung's palm recognition

Robots and Machines

Samsung’s New Phones Might Literally Read the Palm of Your Hand

By Patrick Caughill

In The Future, Your Car Will Read Your Biology to Make Decisions for You

In The Future, Your Car Will Read Your Biology to Make Decisions for You

By Kristin Houser

social media internet privacy internet security

Lip-Reading Computers Could Spell the End of Passwords as We Know Them