Australia’s world-first social media ban for under-16s is set to take effect in just days, aiming to curb the risks of early ...

St. Louis Blues forward Alexey Toropchenko is the latest hockey player to miss time in the NHL because of a bizarre off-ice ...

Florida is hiring Tulane’s Jon Sumrall as its next coach, settling for its second choice after Lane Kiffin reportedly picked ...

"Roblox" continues to expand into one of the most dynamic metaverse platforms in gaming, offering millions of user-made worlds that range from shooters and simulators to racing games, mystery solvers, ...

Roblox introduced an update to its player safety that included a tool that estimates a player’s age after taking a scan of their face. “Facial age estimation allows eligible users aged 13 and older to ...

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.

Roblox, the popular online gaming platform that hosts millions of user-created games, said Tuesday it is strengthening protections for minors. Roblox said it will soon require players to use ...

Roblox, the online gaming platform that has been under fire due to child safety concerns, has introduced age-verification software that uses facial scanning to estimate the age of players. The system ...

Roblox is the first online gaming or communication platform to require facial age checks to access chat, establishing a new industry standard. The rollout began with a voluntary age check period. The ...

Online gaming giant Roblox has just announced it will start checking users' ages from early December in an attempt to stop children and teenagers talking with adults. In what the company has described ...

The gaming app, Roblox, is rolling out a new safety feature. The platform requires age checks to ensure that users are talking to other users in a similar age group. The gaming app is facing dozens of ...

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, ...