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Don’t Talk to Strangers—What Roblox Leftovers Teaches

GamingWithKev explains what Roblox leftovers teach about not talking to strangers. “I will not allow Donald Trump to silence me”: Army combat veteran Democrat responds to president’s threat Kevin ...
The New York Times

Roblox, Where Kids Game and Chat, Will Analyze Users’ Faces to Verify Age

The popular gaming platform said the tool was designed to stop children from chatting with older users they didn’t know. By Jenny Gross The online gaming platform Roblox this week rolled out a new ...
TechCrunch

Roblox will require all users to perform age checks to access chat starting in January

Following a spate of lawsuits and investigations over its child safety systems, Roblox is going to implement mandatory facial verification for all users who want to access communication features, ...
PC Gamer

Roblox to make facial age checks mandatory to access any chat features, and will put 'common-sense limits' on the age ranges users can chat within

Roblox is to become the first major gaming platform where facial age verification will be mandatory to access any chat features. In 2024, the platform averaged over 80 million players a day, ...
CNN

Lawsuits claim Roblox endangers kids. New AI age verification aims to block them from chatting with adults

If Roblox users want to chat on the online gaming platform, they’ll soon have to verify their age by providing a government ID or by letting an artificial intelligence age estimation tool photograph ...
The New York Times

We Asked Roblox’s C.E.O. About Child Safety. It Got Tense.

This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents? By Kevin ...
Yahoo

Richard Dreyfuss’ Estranged Son Ben on ‘Complicated Family Drama To Do With MeToo’

There is a lot of dirty laundry being aired about the Dreyfuss family. Richard Dreyfuss’ son, Ben Dreyfuss, is sharing how difficult things are between him and his Academy Award-winning dad. “We’ve ...
Mashable

Want to chat on Roblox? You'll need to verify your age.

Roblox chat will only be available to users whose age is estimated. Credit: Ian Moore / Mashable Composite; Dima Berlin / iStock / Getty / Roblox The gaming platform Roblox will begin using age ...
People

John Travolta Celebrates Lookalike Son Ben on His 15th Birthday as He Marvels at How Fast He's Grown Up

Travolta shared a sweet shot of Ben posing in front of a snowy mountain as he celebrated his special day Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE ...
NPR

In Ben Stiller's showbiz family, there was little separation between home and stage

When both your parents are in show business, you get used to being stopped on the street. Just ask Ben Stiller, whose parents, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, formed a hit comedy duo in the 1960s and ...
Yahoo

Jennifer Lopez & Ben Affleck’s Kids Want Them To Reunite — Source

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck parted ways a year ago. However, they sparked reconciliation rumors with their reunion at the New York City premiere of “Kiss of a Spider Woman.” Although the singer had ...