WUNC

Roblox bets on facial scanning to keep its youngest users safe

The wildly popular online gaming platform Roblox has started rolling out facial age verification to enhance its security measures. The move follows a string of lawsuits alleging the platform has ...
NPR

Roblox bets on facial scanning to keep its youngest users safe

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 ...
PC Magazine

Roblox Rolls Out Facial Checks, Age-Based Groups. Will That Keep Kids Safe?

Roblox is now rolling out facial age checks and age-based grouping for chat features on a voluntary basis ahead of it becoming mandatory in select markets next month. Once implemented, users will be ...
The Conversation

Roblox set to start checking people’s ages. But it will need to do more to keep kids safe

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.
Mena FN

Roblox Set To Start Checking People's Ages. But It Will Need To Do More To Keep Kids Safe

(MENAFN- The Conversation) 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 ...
Mashable

Roblox: A parent's guide to keeping your kids safe

Half of the U.S. population under the age of 16 are playing Roblox. Here's how to keep your kids safe on the platform. Credit: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images Grow a Garden. 99 Nights in the ...
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 ...
PC Gamer

Roblox, which is being sued by 3 US states for endangering children, earns praise from the US Attorney General Alliance 'for its readiness to collaborate directly with ...

The Attorney General Alliance, a bipartisan group of US state attorneys general that "takes on emerging issues like cannabis regulation, sports betting," has launched a new Partnership for Youth ...
Yahoo

Here are safety tips to make sure your kids, and you, are safe this Halloween

You know what's really scary about Halloween? Ending up in the emergency room. Kristen Hullum, a trauma injury prevention coordinator at St. David’s Round Rock Medical, and Dr. Lisa Gaw, associate ...
Wall Street Journal

How to Make Banks Less Safe

Journal Editorial Report: The week's best and worst from Jason Riley, Allysia Finley and Kyle Peterson. Bad ideas never die, but they do get worse. An example is the embrace by the Trump ...
PC Gamer

Elon Musk has been snapping up ex-Nvidia specialists to help make AI world models, which is fine but please keep away from our games

If there's one kind of AI that's most relevant to gaming, it would be the so-called 'world model.' This is a system that can learn to simulate real-world things, which might allow for 'easy' creation ...