Exclusive: TikTok to tighten age checks in Europe as regulators ramp up pressure

TikTok will start rolling out new age-detection technology across Europe in the coming weeks, it told Reuters on Friday, as the ByteDance-owned platform faces regulatory pressure to better identify ...

TikTok to Roll Out Stronger Age Verification Across the EU

TikTok, and other major platforms popular with young people, are coming under increasing pressure to better identify and ...
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Kids who have smartphones by age 12 have higher risk of depression, obesity: Study

The earlier the age a child received a smartphone the greater the health risk. Children who have smartphones by age 12 are at higher risk of lack of sleep, obesity and depression, according to a new ...
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Care home pals form rap crew to sing about old age and beating Grim Reaper

A care home in Bakewell has produced an unlikely rap sensation after residents formed the Six 4 Teen Crew and released a track about ageing and outlasting the Grim Reaper. Their song Rap sody in Grey ...
Pew Research Center

Americans’ Social Media Use 2025

To better understand which social media platforms Americans use, Pew Research Center surveyed 5,022 U.S. adults from Feb. 5 to June 18, 2025. SSRS conducted this National Public Opinion Reference ...
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Roblox rolls out new age verification feature for chat use

JACKSOVNILLE, Fla. — The popular children’s gaming platform ROBLOX rolled out a new safety feature meant to ensure that children playing the game interact with other kids their own age. Roblox wants ...
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Roblox steps up age checks, using players’ video selfies

Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to privately message other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able to message people ...
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 ...
Frontiers

Development and validation of the short form of the Parker personality measure among Chinese college students

1 Affiliated Hospital (School of Clinical Medicine), Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China 2 School of Public Health and Nursing, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China Objective: Current ...
AOL

Roblox wants to use AI to guess every user's age, but investors aren't sure that's a win

Roblox (RBLX) has a plan to deal with a slew of safety issues: artificial intelligence. "We're going to use AI to estimate the age of every single person on Roblox," CEO David Baszucki told Yahoo ...
Ars Technica

Apple and Google reluctantly comply with Texas age verification law

Apple yesterday announced a plan to comply with a Texas age verification law and warned that changes required by the law will reduce privacy for app users. “Beginning January 1, 2026, a new state law ...