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Samsung foldable software, eye-scanning orbs, and the future of the arcade

The Vergecast

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The Future of World Coin

World coin doesn't care who you are. It just cares that you're a person. That's literally the only goal. This strikes me as the kind of thing that you'd see in a sci-fi movie and there would be like people in white lab coats doing this. Yeah, it's very bottoms up community organized. Like obviously these people are getting paid to do these scans, but they're really just enthusiasts. There's already been reports of people buying world IDs on like the dark web so that they can then get the tokens associated with that world ID.

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