Rolling Stone

Here’s How Spotify Wrapped Calculated Your Listening Age — And Here’s Rolling Stone’s

“Age is just a number. So don’t take this personally,” the Spotify slide warns, before revealing each user’s calculated listening age. How exactly did Spotify land on that number, though? Marc Hazan, ...
Silicon Valley

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 ...
GamesIndustry

Roblox begins rolling out age checks using facial age estimation technology

Roblox has started rolling out voluntary age checks on its platform to access its chat feature to "limit communication between minors and adults." Age verification will be conducted through the Roblox ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Google Accused in Suit of Using Gemini AI Tool to Snoop on Users

Google was accused in a lawsuit of using its Gemini AI assistant to unlawfully track the private communications of users of its Gmail, instant messaging and videoconference programs. In the past, ...
Women's Health

'At 78, I reduced my biological age to 51 using nothing but exercise – here's how’

Linda Green didn’t step foot in a gym until she was 75. Now, three years since she moved to retirement home Ledian Gardens and started regular exercise, she has the biological age of a 51-year-old.
Ars Technica

Big Tech sues Texas, says age-verification law is “broad censorship regime”

Texas is being sued by a Big Tech lobby group over the state’s new law that will require app stores to verify users’ ages and impose restrictions on users under 18. “The Texas App Store Accountability ...
NPR

More college students are using AI for class. Their professors aren't far behind

More college students are using AI chatbots to help them with their studies. But data recently released by an AI company shows they're aren't the only ones using the technology. College students are ...
AOL

Social Security: How Much the Average Middle-Class Retiree Receives in Benefits at Age 80

On average, an 80-year-old receives $2,006.20 per month in Social Security retirement benefits, according to Social Security Administration (SSA) data, as of December 2024. In comparison, the average ...
National Catholic Reporter

'The Gilded Age' asks us to sympathize with the class that's destroying us

"The Gilded Age," HBO's costume drama about the lives of the wealthy and their servants in 1880s New York City, is popcorn viewing of the highest caliber. The show boasts some of Broadway and ...
PC Gamer

Roblox to begin using 'facial age estimation technology' on its users, promises to 'limit communication between adults and minors unless they know each other in the real world'

The new system, combined with verified IDs and parental consent, "will provide a more accurate measure of a user's age" than what's available now. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...
Android Police

YouTube AI age verification: How it works and what you can do

Taylor worked with AP from 2018 to 2025, most recently as Google Editor. In August, YouTube began rolling out a new system that uses AI algorithms to estimate users' ages in the United States. If your ...
PC Gamer

Former Dragon Age producer Mark Darrah agrees that Mages were the most 'complete' class in Origins, says it came from D&D rules and the fact that Warriors and Rogues weren't ...

In response to a viewer question in a 200k subscriber Q&A for his YouTube channel, former BioWare producer Mark Darrah explained why Mages in Dragon Age: Origins were so feature rich or "complete" ...