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I traveled to Roblox's headquarters to do a demo of a new safety feature it says will help protect child users.

Roblox is introducing new safety features to limit interactions between adults and minors on its platform. Users will need to verify their age with a government ID or facial scan to use chat features.

This week the company announced that it would require users to undergo an A.I.-powered age estimation process in order to chat with others on the platform. Will this change reassure parents? By Kevin ...

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 ...

Roblox is among the most downloaded online games in the world, reporting millions of daily users from across the globe of all ages, mostly children and teenagers. Many have criticized the rise of ...

Roblox Corp. executives have been trying to get advertisers to market their wares in the gaming platform’s virtual worlds since the company went public in 2021. It’s a chance for brands to reach the ...

A Johnson County father filed a federal lawsuit against Roblox on Nov. 19, alleging that the online gaming platform enabled the sexual exploitation of his 11-year-old daughter. The father, identified ...

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 ...

Recovery crews extracting Shenzhou-20 commander Chen Dong from the Shenzhou-21 return module in Inner Mongolia, Nov. 14, 2025. Credit: CCTV/BACC HELSINKI — Three Chinese astronauts have safely ...

(Bloomberg/Julia Fanzeres) — US companies announced the most job cuts for any October in more than two decades as artificial intelligence reshapes industries and cost-cutting accelerates, according to ...

U.S. companies announced 153,074 job cuts last month, the most for any October since 2003, according to a new report. Cost-cutting and AI were the two main reasons for job reductions. Employers ...