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Roblox Isn’t Playing Games. Why the Stock Could Jump 50%.

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 ...
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How to play coop in Soulframe

There are a number of ways to play cooperatively in Soulframe, with the first and most obvious being the large + icon in the top left of the main menu screen that you can access by hitting the Esc key ...
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Molten glass, second chances: Inside a studio where people find purpose

EVERY CURVE, BUBBLE AND SWIRL OF COLOR TELLS THE STORY OF THE HANDS THAT MADE IT A BEAUTY THAT COMES FROM IMPERFECTION. I HOPE WITH EVERYBODY THAT THEY CAN SEE A VERSION OF THEMSELVES THROUGH THEIR ...
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Roblox adding new age-verification system after lawsuits involving child exploitation, assault

SAN ANTONIO – Roblox, a popular social gaming platform containing millions of user-created games, has reported around 40% of its 84 million users are under 13 years old. Many families play together ...
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Roblox CEO thinks adding gambling is "a brilliant idea" and calls its predator problem "an opportunity"

As a journalist, you know if an interview is going well or not. I've had stinkers - usually the ones where you're asking awkward questions that the interviewee would prefer not to answer, prompting ...
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Pixel Studio adding image animations with GIF sharing, coming to Pixel 8

After the Journal app came to older devices this month, Google looks to be bringing Pixel Studio to the Pixel 8 series with a new ability to animate images and share them as GIFs. The Pixel Studio ...
The New York Times

Roblox, Where Kids Game and Chat, Will Analyze Users’ Faces to Verify Age

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 ...
MLive

Popular gaming platform used by millions of kids makes major safety change

A popular gaming platform has blocked children from talking to adult strangers. Roblox announced this week that full chat access will require facial age checks. The new policy starts in December for ...
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.
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Utah on pace to add 2 million people over the next 40 years, but is growth slowing?

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah remains on pace to add 2 million more people over the next 40 years, but the state's rate of growth may continue to slide over the next few decades, according to a new projection ...
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 ...