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Should you trust Tools for Humanity’s iris-scanning orb? | Equity Podcast

Ever wonder if you’re talking to a real person online or just another bot? As bots increasingly outnumber humans online, leading to an explosion of deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, one company has a solution straight out of sci-fi: scanning your iris to verify your identity. Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan spoke with Adrian…

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Ever wonder if you’re talking to a real person online or just another bot? As bots increasingly outnumber humans online, leading to an explosion of deepfakes and AI-driven fraud, one company has a solution straight out of sci-fi: scanning your iris to verify your identity.

Today on TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Rebecca Bellan spoke with Adrian Ludwig, Chief Security Officer and Chief Architect at Tools for Humanity, the company behind World’s eye-scanning Orbs appearing around the globe. Bellan and Ludwig discuss building privacy-first identity verification, the open-source approach to biometric tech, and why proving humanity matters now more than ever.

Listen to the full episode to hear:

– How zero-knowledge proofs verify that you’re over 18 (or human) without revealing your location, browsing history, or other identifying information.

– Why Tools for Humanity open-sourced the entire Orb — from hardware to firmware and software.

– How Match Group, Event Pop, and other major platforms are partnering up to combat bot abuse.

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A Cosmologist’s Guide to the End of the Universe | Katie Mack and Debbie Millman | TED

How does studying the end of time change your perspective of life on Earth? Cosmologist and TED Fellow Katie Mack joins designer and podcaster Debbie Millman to talk about the story of the cosmos — from the Big Bang’s ancient light still glowing across the universe to the five ways it might all come to…

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How does studying the end of time change your perspective of life on Earth? Cosmologist and TED Fellow Katie Mack joins designer and podcaster Debbie Millman to talk about the story of the cosmos — from the Big Bang’s ancient light still glowing across the universe to the five ways it might all come to an end — plus what aerobatic flying taught her about staying present. (Recorded at TEDNext 2025 on November 10, 2025)

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The Foldable iPhone Twists Apple Into a Strange Position

Apple’s rumored foldable phone raises many questions before it even launches. Where does it fit next to the standard iPhone and the iPhone Pro line? What should Apple learn from Samsung’s years of experience? And is this actually a phone, or something closer to a tiny iPad? Scott Stein and Iyaz Akhtar break it all…

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Apple’s rumored foldable phone raises many questions before it even launches. Where does it fit next to the standard iPhone and the iPhone Pro line? What should Apple learn from Samsung’s years of experience? And is this actually a phone, or something closer to a tiny iPad? Scott Stein and Iyaz Akhtar break it all down.

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Voicemail Deepfakes Are Getting Scarily Better

Deepfakes aren’t just poorly generated AI videos anymore. Some of them can be really convincing audio clips, emails, and more. CNET reporter Katelyn Chedraoui spoke with experts about the newest wave of AI voicemail scams and even tried to see if she could fool her sister with an AI voice deepfake. Check out the full…

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Deepfakes aren’t just poorly generated AI videos anymore. Some of them can be really convincing audio clips, emails, and more. CNET reporter Katelyn Chedraoui spoke with experts about the newest wave of AI voicemail scams and even tried to see if she could fool her sister with an AI voice deepfake. Check out the full video on YouTube.

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