Justin Patchin, criminal justice professor at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, on new age verification guidelines for the online gaming platform Roblox, and tips for parents to protect their ...

The age-verification tool uses facial recognition to put players into specific age groups before they can chat online.

The popular gaming platform said the tool was designed to stop children from chatting with older users they didn’t know.

To enhance its safety measures, Roblox has become the "first" game platform to require age verification to participate in its ...

A Stony Brook University software tool that will let researchers map the brain's circuitry and share findings via crowdsourcing has won funding from a philanthropy backed by the founder of online ...

The move comes amid multiple lawsuits, including from the attorneys general of Texas and Louisiana, against Roblox over child ...

BOSTON (WHDH) - A student at Boston University has designed a hyper-realistic MBTA bus simulator on online game platform Roblox, a virtual universe that lets users program and play games created by ...

NEW YORK (March 5, 2025) - Today, the “Love, Your Mind” campaign (from the Ad Council, with lead partner Huntsman Mental Health Institute) launched the Love, Your Mind World, the first nonprofit ...

The platform has introduced an age-verification system following failures to protect minors, who are exposed to contact with ...

Australians will need to undergo facial scans to estimate their age if they want to use all the features of a popular online ...