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Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 04-28-26

https://social.emucafe.org/naferrell/pook-emu-bee-links-for-04-28-26/

Tinder terá polêmica verificação por íris para combater perfis de IA

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://tecnoblog.net/noticias/tinder-tera-polemica-verificacao-por-iris-para-combater-perfis-de-ia/

The Atlantic | Sam Altman Wants to Know Whether You’re Human by Will Gottsegen

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Sam Altman’s company Tools for Humanity is rolling out “World ID,” a biometric verification system that uses large, camera‑like devices called Orbs to scan a person’s face and irises, encrypt the data and create a digital passport proving “human‑ness.” Presented as an evolution of CAPTCHA, the service aims to combat the flood of AI‑generated bots, deepfakes, scams and impersonation that threaten online trust, especially as generative models become increasingly realistic. While the Orbs have been installed in public venues and are being integrated with services like Zoom, DocuSign and Tinder, the rollout has sparked privacy and reliability concerns—particularly after a mis‑communication about a partnership with Bruno Mars—and raises questions about how much users can trust a system that itself must prove its credibility. The article frames Altman’s push as both a response to the dangers of AI‑driven deception and a reflection of his broader role in shaping the technology that created those threats.

Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/04/sam-altman-bots-world-id/686950/?utm_source=feed

#SamAltman #WorldID #OpenAI #Orb #CAPTCHA #BrunoMars

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The Atlantic | Sam Altman Wants to Know Whether You’re Human by Will Gottsegen

AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.

Sam Altman’s company Tools for Humanity is rolling out “World ID,” a biometric verification system that uses large, camera‑like devices called Orbs to scan a person’s face and irises, encrypt the data and create a digital passport proving “human‑ness.” Presented as an evolution of CAPTCHA, the service aims to combat the flood of AI‑generated bots, deepfakes, scams and impersonation that threaten online trust, especially as generative models become increasingly realistic. While the Orbs have been installed in public venues and are being integrated with services like Zoom, DocuSign and Tinder, the rollout has sparked privacy and reliability concerns—particularly after a mis‑communication about a partnership with Bruno Mars—and raises questions about how much users can trust a system that itself must prove its credibility. The article frames Altman’s push as both a response to the dangers of AI‑driven deception and a reflection of his broader role in shaping the technology that created those threats.

Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/04/sam-altman-bots-world-id/686950/?utm_source=feed

#SamAltman #WorldID #OpenAI #Orb #CAPTCHA #BrunoMars

AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.

The Atlantic | Sam Altman Wants to Know Whether You’re Human by Will Gottsegen

AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.

Sam Altman’s company Tools for Humanity is rolling out “World ID,” a biometric verification system that uses large, camera‑like devices called Orbs to scan a person’s face and irises, encrypt the data and create a digital passport proving “human‑ness.” Presented as an evolution of CAPTCHA, the service aims to combat the flood of AI‑generated bots, deepfakes, scams and impersonation that threaten online trust, especially as generative models become increasingly realistic. While the Orbs have been installed in public venues and are being integrated with services like Zoom, DocuSign and Tinder, the rollout has sparked privacy and reliability concerns—particularly after a mis‑communication about a partnership with Bruno Mars—and raises questions about how much users can trust a system that itself must prove its credibility. The article frames Altman’s push as both a response to the dangers of AI‑driven deception and a reflection of his broader role in shaping the technology that created those threats.

Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/04/sam-altman-bots-world-id/686950/?utm_source=feed

#SamAltman #WorldID #OpenAI #Orb #CAPTCHA #BrunoMars

AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.

The Atlantic | Sam Altman Wants to Know Whether You’re Human by Will Gottsegen

AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.

Sam Altman’s company Tools for Humanity is rolling out “World ID,” a biometric verification system that uses large, camera‑like devices called Orbs to scan a person’s face and irises, encrypt the data and create a digital passport proving “human‑ness.” Presented as an evolution of CAPTCHA, the service aims to combat the flood of AI‑generated bots, deepfakes, scams and impersonation that threaten online trust, especially as generative models become increasingly realistic. While the Orbs have been installed in public venues and are being integrated with services like Zoom, DocuSign and Tinder, the rollout has sparked privacy and reliability concerns—particularly after a mis‑communication about a partnership with Bruno Mars—and raises questions about how much users can trust a system that itself must prove its credibility. The article frames Altman’s push as both a response to the dangers of AI‑driven deception and a reflection of his broader role in shaping the technology that created those threats.

Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/04/sam-altman-bots-world-id/686950/?utm_source=feed

#SamAltman #WorldID #OpenAI #Orb #CAPTCHA #BrunoMars

AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.

The Atlantic | Sam Altman Wants to Know Whether You’re Human by Will Gottsegen

AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information.

Sam Altman’s company Tools for Humanity is rolling out “World ID,” a biometric verification system that uses large, camera‑like devices called Orbs to scan a person’s face and irises, encrypt the data and create a digital passport proving “human‑ness.” Presented as an evolution of CAPTCHA, the service aims to combat the flood of AI‑generated bots, deepfakes, scams and impersonation that threaten online trust, especially as generative models become increasingly realistic. While the Orbs have been installed in public venues and are being integrated with services like Zoom, DocuSign and Tinder, the rollout has sparked privacy and reliability concerns—particularly after a mis‑communication about a partnership with Bruno Mars—and raises questions about how much users can trust a system that itself must prove its credibility. The article frames Altman’s push as both a response to the dangers of AI‑driven deception and a reflection of his broader role in shaping the technology that created those threats.

Read more: https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/2026/04/sam-altman-bots-world-id/686950/?utm_source=feed

#SamAltman #WorldID #OpenAI #Orb #CAPTCHA #BrunoMars

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Skanowanie oczu na Tinderze i Zoomie. Tak wygląda nowy certyfikat człowieczeństwa

Wyobraź sobie, że przed wejściem na wideorozmowę ze współpracownikami albo przed przesunięciem profilu w prawo w aplikacji randkowej, musisz bezspornie udowodnić, że jesteś żywym człowiekiem.

I to nie klikając w obrazki z sygnalizacją świetlną, ale skanując własną tęczówkę. To nie kadr z „Łowcy Androidów”, to nasza nowa rzeczywistość. Tinder i Zoom wdrażają technologię biometryczną, by walczyć z plagą botów i deepfake’ów. Za wszystkim stoi twórca ChatGPT, co nadaje tej historii wyjątkowo ironiczny wymiar.

Plaga idealnych oszustów

Zarówno platformy randkowe, jak i narzędzia korporacyjne mają dziś ten sam, gigantyczny problem: sztuczna inteligencja stała się zbyt doskonała w udawaniu nas samych. Na Tinderze plaga botów to już nie tylko irytujące, fałszywe profile, ale potężny przemysł oszustw matrymonialnych. Jak wyliczają amerykańscy śledczy, tylko w zeszłym roku ofiary zmanipulowane przez algorytmicznie zoptymalizowanych naciągaczy straciły ponad miliard dolarów (sic!). Boty potrafią dziś prowadzić rozmowy tak przekonujące, że użytkownicy nie zauważają momentu, w którym zaczyna się manipulacja.

Zupełnie inna, ale równie kosztowna skala problemu dotyka Zooma. Przypadek z Hongkongu, gdzie pracownik przelał 25 milionów dolarów, będąc w pełni przekonanym, że rozmawia na wideo ze swoim dyrektorem finansowym (który w rzeczywistości był perfekcyjnym deepfakiem), obudził korporacje z letargu. Wideokonferencja przestała być gwarantem autentyczności.

Zeskanuj oko, odbierz odznakę

Odpowiedzią na ten kryzys zaufania ma być World ID – cyfrowy paszport stworzony przez firmę World (dawniej Worldcoin). Użytkownicy Tindera i Zooma będą mogli dobrowolnie zeskanować swoją tęczówkę oka za pomocą specjalnego urządzenia w kształcie kuli (tzw. Orb) lub dedykowanej aplikacji. Tęczówka jest bowiem unikalna w stopniu znacznie wyższym niż odcisk palca.

Po udanej weryfikacji użytkownik otrzyma na swoim profilu specjalną odznakę „dowodu człowieczeństwa” (proof of humanity). Oznacza to, że zyskamy narzędzie pozwalające na pierwszy rzut oka odróżnić żywego rozmówcę od nawet najbardziej zaawansowanego, algorytmicznego oszusta. Firma chwali się, że do tej pory z jej weryfikacji skorzystało już 18 milionów osób.

Strażak, który sam podłożył ogień

W całej tej innowacji kryje się jednak fascynujący paradoks. Jednym z założycieli i szefem firmy World jest Sam Altman – ten sam człowiek, który stoi na czele OpenAI. To właśnie potężne modele językowe i generatory wideo tworzone przez jego firmę dały oszustom narzędzia do masowego tworzenia botów i deepfake’ów, z którymi teraz walczą Tinder i Zoom.

Podczas piątkowej prezentacji w San Francisco Altman stwierdził, że wkrótce w internecie będzie więcej treści stworzonych przez AI niż przez ludzi, ale „nie boi się przyszłości, dopóki potrafimy je od siebie odróżnić”. Trudno jednak nie zauważyć rynkowego sprytu tej strategii: gigant technologiczny najpierw dostarcza narzędzia, które niszczą zaufanie w cyfrowym świecie, a następnie oferuje nam biometryczne rozwiązanie tego problemu. Pytanie tylko, czy jesteśmy gotowi oddawać najbardziej wrażliwe dane biometryczne w zamian za cyfrową wiarygodność. W przeciwieństwie do skradzionego hasła, zrabowanego skanu tęczówki nie da się już nigdy zresetować.

Sam Altman ma potężny problem. ChatGPT to nie jest nowy Windows

Weekly output: Mozilla Firefox CEO, AI crawlers vs. publishers and creators, teenage AI chatbot use, Android Live Emergency Video, PCMag’s best tech bought in 2025, World App

Somehow I’m down to the last full workweek of the year–and yet my writing and gift shopping seem to have more than a week’s worth of work remaining.

12/8/2025: Mozilla is doing a delicate dance with AI, Fast Company

I spoke with Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers at a Web Summit event for the second time this year. One thing Firefox’s management no longer needs to worry about, unlike when I met with Chambers at Web Summit Qatar in February: the threat of Google being forced to stop paying browser developers to keep its search engine as the default.

12/9/2025: AI Platforms Are Paying (Some) Big Publishers, Leaving Smaller Ones Behind, PCMag

This post began with me taking notes from a Web Summit panel featuring Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talking about that Internet infrastructure company’s Pay Per Crawl initiative to push AI providers to pay Web publishers for access to their content, then I did some follow-up reporting that included setting up Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control bot-blocking filter on this blog, and then I had to update the post the morning it was published after the European Commission opened an investigation into how Google runs its AI Overview search feature.

12/9/2025: 28% of Teens Use Chatbots Daily. You Can Probably Guess Which One They Like Best, PCMag

The latest survey by the Pew Research Center surfaced some interesting statistics about how much teenagers use AI chatbots and which ones they use the most.

12/10/2025: Need Help? Android Phones Can Now Share Live Video With 911 Dispatchers, PCMag

Google is shipping this feature a year after Apple did, but its emergency live video implementation works on far more devices than Apple’s.

12/11/2025: The Best Tech PCMag Editors Bought in 2025, PCMag

I wrote a short graf lauding the compact, quick-charging (and Wirecutter-endorsed) USB-C charger that I bought after losing the considerably bulkier model that came with my laptop.

12/13/2025: App That Verifies Your Existence Adds Encrypted Messaging, PCMag

Tools for Humanity announced an update to its World App that adds an end-to-end-encrypted chat feature and expands its cryptocurrency tools. I took advantage of this news peg to try out the app’s ability to verify a “World ID” by scanning the NFC tag on my U.S. passport; that did not go well at all for me.

12/15/2025: Updated to add the PCMag best-tech package that I forgot to check for on Sunday.

#AIChatbot #AIOverview #AISearch #ChatGPT #Firefox #GoogleZero #Mozilla #PayPerCrawl #PewResearchCenter #ToolsForHumanity #WebSummit #WorldApp #WorldID

Weekly output: Mozilla Firefox CEO, AI crawlers vs. publishers and creators, teenage AI chatbot use, Android Live Emergency Video, PCMag’s best tech bought in 2025, World App

Somehow I’m down to the last full workweek of the year–and yet my writing and gift shopping seem to have more than a week’s worth of work remaining.

12/8/2025: Mozilla is doing a delicate dance with AI, Fast Company

I spoke with Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers at a Web Summit event for the second time this year. One thing Firefox’s management no longer needs to worry about, unlike when I met with Chambers at Web Summit Qatar in February: the threat of Google being forced to stop paying browser developers to keep its search engine as the default.

12/9/2025: AI Platforms Are Paying (Some) Big Publishers, Leaving Smaller Ones Behind, PCMag

This post began with me taking notes from a Web Summit panel featuring Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talking about that Internet infrastructure company’s Pay Per Crawl initiative to push AI providers to pay Web publishers for access to their content, then I did some follow-up reporting that included setting up Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control bot-blocking filter on this blog, and then I had to update the post the morning it was published after the European Commission opened an investigation into how Google runs its AI Overview search feature.

12/9/2025: 28% of Teens Use Chatbots Daily. You Can Probably Guess Which One They Like Best, PCMag

The latest survey by the Pew Research Center surfaced some interesting statistics about how much teenagers use AI chatbots and which ones they use the most.

12/10/2025: Need Help? Android Phones Can Now Share Live Video With 911 Dispatchers, PCMag

Google is shipping this feature a year after Apple did, but its emergency live video implementation works on far more devices than Apple’s.

12/11/2025: The Best Tech PCMag Editors Bought in 2025, PCMag

I wrote a short graf lauding the compact, quick-charging (and Wirecutter-endorsed) USB-C charger that I bought after losing the considerably bulkier model that came with my laptop.

12/13/2025: App That Verifies Your Existence Adds Encrypted Messaging, PCMag

Tools for Humanity announced an update to its World App that adds an end-to-end-encrypted chat feature and expands its cryptocurrency tools. I took advantage of this news peg to try out the app’s ability to verify a “World ID” by scanning the NFC tag on my U.S. passport; that did not go well at all for me.

12/15/2025: Updated to add the PCMag best-tech package that I forgot to check for on Sunday.

#AIChatbot #AIOverview #AISearch #ChatGPT #Firefox #GoogleZero #Mozilla #PayPerCrawl #PewResearchCenter #ToolsForHumanity #WebSummit #WorldApp #WorldID

Weekly output: Mozilla Firefox CEO, AI crawlers vs. publishers and creators, teenage AI chatbot use, Android Live Emergency Video, PCMag’s best tech bought in 2025, World App

Somehow I’m down to the last full workweek of the year–and yet my writing and gift shopping seem to have more than a week’s worth of work remaining.

12/8/2025: Mozilla is doing a delicate dance with AI, Fast Company

I spoke with Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers at a Web Summit event for the second time this year. One thing Firefox’s management no longer needs to worry about, unlike when I met with Chambers at Web Summit Qatar in February: the threat of Google being forced to stop paying browser developers to keep its search engine as the default.

12/9/2025: AI Platforms Are Paying (Some) Big Publishers, Leaving Smaller Ones Behind, PCMag

This post began with me taking notes from a Web Summit panel featuring Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talking about that Internet infrastructure company’s Pay Per Crawl initiative to push AI providers to pay Web publishers for access to their content, then I did some follow-up reporting that included setting up Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control bot-blocking filter on this blog, and then I had to update the post the morning it was published after the European Commission opened an investigation into how Google runs its AI Overview search feature.

12/9/2025: 28% of Teens Use Chatbots Daily. You Can Probably Guess Which One They Like Best, PCMag

The latest survey by the Pew Research Center surfaced some interesting statistics about how much teenagers use AI chatbots and which ones they use the most.

12/10/2025: Need Help? Android Phones Can Now Share Live Video With 911 Dispatchers, PCMag

Google is shipping this feature a year after Apple did, but its emergency live video implementation works on far more devices than Apple’s.

12/11/2025: The Best Tech PCMag Editors Bought in 2025, PCMag

I wrote a short graf lauding the compact, quick-charging (and Wirecutter-endorsed) USB-C charger that I bought after losing the considerably bulkier model that came with my laptop.

12/13/2025: App That Verifies Your Existence Adds Encrypted Messaging, PCMag

Tools for Humanity announced an update to its World App that adds an end-to-end-encrypted chat feature and expands its cryptocurrency tools. I took advantage of this news peg to try out the app’s ability to verify a “World ID” by scanning the NFC tag on my U.S. passport; that did not go well at all for me.

12/15/2025: Updated to add the PCMag best-tech package that I forgot to check for on Sunday.

#AIChatbot #AIOverview #AISearch #ChatGPT #Firefox #GoogleZero #Mozilla #PayPerCrawl #PewResearchCenter #ToolsForHumanity #WebSummit #WorldApp #WorldID

Weekly output: Mozilla Firefox CEO, AI crawlers vs. publishers and creators, teenage AI chatbot use, Android Live Emergency Video, PCMag’s best tech bought in 2025, World App

Somehow I’m down to the last full workweek of the year–and yet my writing and gift shopping seem to have more than a week’s worth of work remaining.

12/8/2025: Mozilla is doing a delicate dance with AI, Fast Company

I spoke with Mozilla CEO Laura Chambers at a Web Summit event for the second time this year. One thing Firefox’s management no longer needs to worry about, unlike when I met with Chambers at Web Summit Qatar in February: the threat of Google being forced to stop paying browser developers to keep its search engine as the default.

12/9/2025: AI Platforms Are Paying (Some) Big Publishers, Leaving Smaller Ones Behind, PCMag

This post began with me taking notes from a Web Summit panel featuring Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince talking about that Internet infrastructure company’s Pay Per Crawl initiative to push AI providers to pay Web publishers for access to their content, then I did some follow-up reporting that included setting up Cloudflare’s AI Crawl Control bot-blocking filter on this blog, and then I had to update the post the morning it was published after the European Commission opened an investigation into how Google runs its AI Overview search feature.

12/9/2025: 28% of Teens Use Chatbots Daily. You Can Probably Guess Which One They Like Best, PCMag

The latest survey by the Pew Research Center surfaced some interesting statistics about how much teenagers use AI chatbots and which ones they use the most.

12/10/2025: Need Help? Android Phones Can Now Share Live Video With 911 Dispatchers, PCMag

Google is shipping this feature a year after Apple did, but its emergency live video implementation works on far more devices than Apple’s.

12/11/2025: The Best Tech PCMag Editors Bought in 2025, PCMag

I wrote a short graf lauding the compact, quick-charging (and Wirecutter-endorsed) USB-C charger that I bought after losing the considerably bulkier model that came with my laptop.

12/13/2025: App That Verifies Your Existence Adds Encrypted Messaging, PCMag

Tools for Humanity announced an update to its World App that adds an end-to-end-encrypted chat feature and expands its cryptocurrency tools. I took advantage of this news peg to try out the app’s ability to verify a “World ID” by scanning the NFC tag on my U.S. passport; that did not go well at all for me.

12/15/2025: Updated to add the PCMag best-tech package that I forgot to check for on Sunday.

#AIChatbot #AIOverview #AISearch #ChatGPT #Firefox #GoogleZero #Mozilla #PayPerCrawl #PewResearchCenter #ToolsForHumanity #WebSummit #WorldApp #WorldID

https://www.wacoca.com/media/479606/ 夢中になろう！Re.Ra.Ku × 映画『トリツカレ男』 タイアップキャンペーンでオリジナルグッズをプレゼント | NEWSCAST ##キャンペーン ##ライフスタイル ##健康管理 #film #instagram #movie #Orb #Re.Ra.Ku #sns #twitter #WorldID #アニメ・ゲーム #ウェルネス #エンタメ #オリジナルグッズ #コラボレーション #ステッカー #トリツカレ男 #プレゼント #メディロム #リポスト #リラクゼーション #映画

https://www.wacoca.com/media/479441/ 夢中になろう！Re.Ra.Ku × 映画『トリツカレ男』 タイアップキャンペーンでオリジナルグッズをプレゼント | NEWSCAST ##キャンペーン ##ライフスタイル ##健康管理 #film #instagram #movie #Orb #Re.Ra.Ku #sns #twitter #WorldID #アニメ・ゲーム #ウェルネス #エンタメ #オリジナルグッズ #コラボレーション #ステッカー #トリツカレ男 #プレゼント #メディロム #リポスト #リラクゼーション #映画

Reddit prüft, ob es World ID einsetzen wird!

#Reddit prüft #WorldID-Integration 👁️ Reddit denkt über den Einsatz von World ID nach, einem #IrisScan-basierten Verifizierungssystem von #SamAltman, um echte Nutzer.innen zu erkennen.

#Schutz vor KI-Fakes 🤖 Ziel ist es, die #Echtheit der #Nutzenden zu sichern und sich gegen #KI-generierte #FakeAccounts und Spam zu wappnen. (1/2)

Reddit is considering integrating Sam Altman's World ID iris-scanning technology to enhance user authentication and combat AI-generated content and fake accounts.
#YonhapInfomax #Reddit #WorldID #SamAltman #IrisScanning #AuthenticationSystem #Economics #FinancialMarkets #Banking #Securities #Bonds #StockMarket
https://en.infomaxai.com/news/articleView.html?idxno=70002

I think Lemmy, Mbin and Piefed will soon see an influx of new users.

Reddit is going to use Sam Altmans sketchy iris-scanning "Orb" to verify users.

What in the Black Mirror is this shit?

https://www.semafor.com/article/06/20/2025/reddit-considers-iris-scanning-orb-developed-by-a-sam-altman-startup

#reddit #iris #orb #worldID #lemmy #mbin #piefed

#Reddit is considering using #WorldID, an iris-scanning #verification system, to verify user #uniqueness while maintaining #anonymity: amidst concerns about #AIgeneratedcontent and #ageverificationlaws. https://www.semafor.com/article/06/20/2025/reddit-considers-iris-scanning-orb-developed-by-a-sam-altman-startup

The creepy Sam Altman eyeball scanning operation is soliciting in downtown Austin.

https://www.statesman.com/picture-gallery/business/technology/2025/05/15/orb-an-eyeball-scanning-identity-verification-technology-comes-to-austin/83631997007/

#Orb #WorldID #IrisScanning #EyeballScanning #Biometrics #SamAltman #Austin #Texas

Mein Profilbild ist die Marble meiner World ID. Jeder Benutzer erhält eine individuelle Marble, die sich von allen anderen unterscheidet.
Meine World ID: @centbetrag

https://worldcoin.org/join/72U3C7F

#world #worldid #worldmarble #worldcoin

Sam Altman's Worldcoin Starts US Rollout, Bringing Iris Scans, Crypto IDs, and Controversy

#Worldcoin #Crypto #Blockchain #DigitalID #SamAltman #Biometrics #Privacy #WLD #WorldID #TechNews #USLaunch #Cryptocurrency #Verification #ToolsForHumanity

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/05/01/sam-altmans-worldcoin-starts-us-rollout-bringing-iris-scans-crypto-ids-and-controversy-xcxwbn/

Weekly output: Most Innovative Companies (x2), Simbe Robotics, Starlink at the White House, T-Mobile’s 5G speed record, Trump tries to fire FTC Dems, Verizon satellite messaging, Mark Vena podcast, Tools for Humanity

Months of on-and-off work for one of Fast Company’s most involved projects, the annual Most Innovative Companies list, finally yielded published copy this week. You can imagine my relief at that. This coming week should not feature nearly as many bylines for me, in part because I will be out of the office Thursday afternoon for one of the most important rites of spring: the Washington Nationals’ home opener.

3/18/2025: The most innovative companies in manufacturing for 2025, Fast Company

Some of the companies honored in this part of the MIC list were obvious calls, but more involved a lot of back-and-forth deliberation between me and my editors.

3/18/2025: The most innovative companies in robotics and engineering for 2025, Fast Company

I don’t cover the robotics industry all the time, but I spend enough time covering it to feel a little more at home judging what ranks as innovative in that sector.

3/18/2025: These retail robots travel through store aisles, scanning shelves for inventory and insights, Fast Company

Simbe Robotics earned a nod in last year’s MIC list, and this time around we elected to run a separate story about this startup’s work optimizing retail.

3/18/2025: Report: Starlink Tries to Fix White House’s Wi-Fi Woes, PCMag

The New York Times report about a deployment of Starlink broadband at the White House–which should neither be remotely necessary nor provide fiber-competitive speeds–didn’t mention how often Elon Musk has described Starlink as a rural-first solution. But I have those notes and made sure to surface quotes from them in this piece.

3/19/2025: T-Mobile Claims New 5G Download Speed Record, PCMag

My conversation with T-Mobile’s tech president Ulf Ewaldsson at MWC two weeks earlier helped me put this speed test in context.

3/19/2025: Trump Attempts to Fire the FTC’s Democratic Commissioners, PCMag

After I’d filed this report about Trump ignoring established law and a 90-year-old Supreme Court ruling to try to fire Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Slaughter from the Federal Trade Commission, my editor improved it by suggesting I remind readers of the chapter in the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 that suggests curbing the FTC’s statutory independence.

3/20/2025: Verizon Opens Non-Emergency Satellite Messaging to Galaxy S25, Pixel 9 Users, PCMag

Because I was swamped Wednesday covering the FTC news, I didn’t get to this news until Thursday–by which time Charter and Comcast had announced that their wireless services, based on resold Verizon capacity, were also getting Skylo satellite roaming for customers with Galaxy S25 and Pixel 9 series phones.

3/20/2025: Ep 108 SmartTechCheck Podcast — Skype, NVIDIA GTC, MWC, BYD “fast charging”, Mark Vena

I spent most of my time in this episode of the podcast talking about what I saw at MWC, but the closing discussion of EV charging let me drop in a reference to The Cannonball Run that amused my fellow cinephiles.

3/21/2025: Bot or Not? To Prove You’re Human, Look Into This 8-Inch Orb, PCMag

Almost a month after I talked to Tools for Humanity’s chief architect Adrian Ludwig at Web Summit Qatar–during which that startup signed up a notable new partner and I developed a deeper understanding of what it’s trying to do with this identity scheme–the piece finally made it online.

#AlvaroBedoya #carrierAggregation #DOGE #ElonMusk #FTC #GalaxyS25 #MarkVena #MIC #MostInnovativeCompanies #Orb #Pixel9 #RebeccaSlaughter #satelliteMessaging #SimbeRobotics #Skylo #Starlink #TMobile #TallyRobot #ToolsForHumanity #verizon #WorldID #WorldNetwork #WorldCoin

World ID trolls Spotify with ‘Unwrapped’ privacy meme - World’s seemingly playful jab at Spotify comes as the firm faces scrutin... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/world-id-trolls-spotify-unwrapped-privacy-meme #artificialintelligence #universalbasicincome #cryptocurrency #donaldtrump #technology #worldcoin #samaltman #elonmusk #worldid #privacy #spotify #wrapped #openai #world

Europe not in top priority for Sam Altman’s Worldcoin: Report - An exec said Worldcoin is seeing a “larger dynamic” in non-European coun... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/worldcoin-europe-not-priority-regulation #digitalpassport #datacollection #worldcoin #samaltman #malaysia #germany #bavaria #worldid #austria #privacy #europe #poland #latam #apac

Worldcoin’s World ID gets bridge to Solana via Wormhole - Wormhole was one of 17 projects to receive a Worldcoin Wave 1 Community ... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/worldcoin-world-id-bridge-solana-blockchain-wormhole #cryptocurrency #blockchain #worldcoin #wormhole #worldid #solana

Worldcoin spreads across Europe with Austria digital ID launch - Worldcoin expands its digital ID verification technology to Austria, off... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/worldcoin-europe-austria-digital-id-launch #digitalidentitytechnology #biometricdatasecurity #viennaverification #toolsforhumanity #proofofhumanness #digitalidentity #gdprcompliance #austrialaunch #worldcoin #worldid

Worldcoin Launches World Chain Developer Preview, Targets Increased Scalability - Worldcoin, the biometric ID and UBI project, has announced the launch of the devel... - https://news.bitcoin.com/worldcoin-launches-world-chain-developer-preview-targets-increased-scalability/ #cryptocurrency #scalability #blockchain #worldchain #worldcoin #optimism #worldid #crypto

Worldcoin partners with Alchemy to build blockchain infrastructure - Worldcoin revealed a partnership with Alchemy to build out infrastructur... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/worldcoin-alchemy-build-world-chain-blockchain #blockchaininfrastructure #toolsforhumanity #digitalidentity #worldchain #worldcoin #worldapp #alchemy #worldid #web3

Worldcoin partners with Alchemy to build blockchain infrastructure - Worldcoin revealed a partnership with Alchemy to build out infrastructur... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/worldcoin-alchemy-build-world-chain-blockchain #blockchaininfrastructure #toolsforhumanity #digitalidentity #worldchain #worldcoin #worldapp #alchemy #worldid #web3

Kenya drops Worldcoin probe — ‘No further police action’ - After suspending Worldcoin operations in August 2023, Kenyan authorities... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/kenyan-police-drops-worldcoin-probe #artificialintelligence #identification #worldcoin #samaltman #identity #worldid #openai #kenya #ai

Worldcoin Launches Minecraft Integration for ID Verification Purposes - Worldcoin, the biometric ID and digital wallet project, will now allow Minecraft s... - https://news.bitcoin.com/worldcoin-launches-minecraft-integration-for-id-verification-purposes/ #cryptocurrency #mojangstudios #blockchain #microsoft #worldcoin #worldid #crypto #news #nft

Report: Kenyan Subscribers Constituted 25% Worldcoin’s Global Total in July - At some point in July, there were as many as 350,000 Kenya-based residents who had... - https://news.bitcoin.com/report-kenyan-subscribers-constituted-25-worldcoins-global-total-in-july/ #kenyaparliament #cryptocurrency #gabrieltongoyo #worldcoinkenya #worldid #africa

The World ID Orb and the Question of What Defines a Person - Among the daily churn of ‘Web 3.0’, blockchains and cryptocurrency messaging, ther... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/10/the-world-id-orb-and-the-question-of-what-defines-a-person/ #currentevents #biometrics #featured #irisscan #science #worldid

Nos fuimos al carajo.

#SamAltman, creador de #ChatGPT, lanza la criptomoenda #WorldCoin.

Se obtiene una vez que se registran (regalan) los datos biométricos de uno para comprobar que se es humano y así tener una renta básica universal.

Veo en algunas redes fotos de gente haciendo filas larguísimas para que les registren los datos biométricos.

También hablan de un #WorldID.

Lo #ciberpunk ya no es ciencia ficción.

https://worldcoin.org/blog/announcements/launch-week-sets-records-worldcoin-community-world-id-sign-ups

Worldcoin Officially Launches, Announces Orb Rollout Expansion in More Than 35 Cities - Worldcoin, the decentralized biometric ID protocol, has officially launched, allow... - https://news.bitcoin.com/worldcoin-officially-launches-announces-orb-rollout-expansion-in-more-than-35-cities/ #toolsforhumanity #samaltman #worldcoin #wldtoken #worldapp #worldid #brazil #france #news #orbs

Worldcoin Officially Launches, Announces Orb Rollout Expansion in More Than 35 Cities - Worldcoin, the decentralized biometric ID protocol, has officially launched, allow... - https://news.bitcoin.com/worldcoin-officially-launches-announces-orb-rollout-expansion-in-more-than-35-cities/ #toolsforhumanity #samaltman #worldcoin #wldtoken #worldapp #worldid #brazil #france #news #orbs

Worldcoin Migrates to Optimism - Worldcoin, the decentralized ID and wallet protocol, has migrated its operations t... - https://news.bitcoin.com/worldcoin-migrates-to-optimism/ #decentralizedidentity #worldcoin #coinbase #optimism #worldapp #polygon #worldid #news #base

Worldcoin Migrates to Optimism - Worldcoin, the decentralized ID and wallet protocol, has migrated its operations t... - https://news.bitcoin.com/worldcoin-migrates-to-optimism/ #decentralizedidentity #worldcoin #coinbase #optimism #worldapp #polygon #worldid #news #base

Sam Altman-Backed Worldcoin Reaches 2 Million Signups - Worldcoin, a startup that aims to build the “world’s largest identity and financia... - https://news.bitcoin.com/sam-altman-backed-worldcoin-reaches-2-million-signups/ #talentprotocol #integration #samaltman #worldcoin #worldapp #signups #worldid #auth0 #news #orb

Sam Altman-Backed Worldcoin Reaches 2 Million Signups - Worldcoin, a startup that aims to build the “world’s largest identity and financia... - https://news.bitcoin.com/sam-altman-backed-worldcoin-reaches-2-million-signups/ #talentprotocol #integration #samaltman #worldcoin #worldapp #signups #worldid #auth0 #news #orb

Worldcoin Launches World App to Bolster Decentralized Identity and Finance for Mass Adoption - Worldcoin, the project supported by Openai CEO Sam Altman, has launched the World ... - https://news.bitcoin.com/worldcoin-launches-world-app-to-bolster-decentralized-identity-and-finance-for-mass-adoption/ #decentralizedidentities #cryptocurrencywallet #worldcoinworldapp #democratization #privacy-focused #biometricdata #globalrollout #samaltman #worldcoin #worldapp #finance #worldid #openai

Worldcoin Launches World App to Bolster Decentralized Identity and Finance for Mass Adoption - Worldcoin, the project supported by Openai CEO Sam Altman, has launched the World ... - https://news.bitcoin.com/worldcoin-launches-world-app-to-bolster-decentralized-identity-and-finance-for-mass-adoption/ #decentralizedidentities #cryptocurrencywallet #worldcoinworldapp #democratization #privacy-focused #biometricdata #globalrollout #samaltman #worldcoin #worldapp #finance #worldid #openai

Worldcoin Launches World App to Bolster Decentralized Identity and Finance for Mass Adoption - Worldcoin, the project supported by Openai CEO Sam Altman, has launched the World ... - https://news.bitcoin.com/worldcoin-launches-world-app-to-bolster-decentralized-identity-and-finance-for-mass-adoption/ #decentralizedidentities #cryptocurrencywallet #worldcoinworldapp #democratization #privacy-focused #biometricdata #globalrollout #samaltman #worldcoin #worldapp #finance #worldid #openai

Worldcoin Launches World App to Bolster Decentralized Identity and Finance for Mass Adoption - Worldcoin, the project supported by Openai CEO Sam Altman, has launched the World ... - https://news.bitcoin.com/worldcoin-launches-world-app-to-bolster-decentralized-identity-and-finance-for-mass-adoption/ #decentralizedidentities #cryptocurrencywallet #worldcoinworldapp #democratization #privacy-focused #biometricdata #globalrollout #samaltman #worldcoin #worldapp #finance #worldid #openai