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 ...

In September, a quirky game called Steal a Brainrot hosted 25 million players at the same time on Roblox’s global platform, surpassing a record set just months earlier by Roblox’s prior hit, Grow a ...

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 ...

Lisa M. Given receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia and the Association for Information Science and Technology.

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My Gen Alpha daughter was born in 2016, but sometimes it feels like she’s growing up in a different universe entirely. Her ...

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, ...

Things get real when Hamish, Cristina, Ariel and Elena De Souza-Bell chat about the social media ban and how it will impact ...

Many Snapchat users are using the app unaware that this setting even exists – and what is happening to their content without their knowledge.