Discord's age verification system secretly runs 269 identity checks including facial scans and government watchlists, sparking gamer revolt over privacy overreach.

The messaging platform says its ‘limited test’ of Persona in the UK has come to an end.

Researchers use mini plasma explosions to encode the equivalent of two million books into a coaster-sized device. The method ...

Abstract: With advancements in speech recognition, text discrimination has matured, but speech-based age recognition remains challenging. This study improves Gaussian Mixture Models (GMM) for age ...

At the 2026 Winter Olympics, the difference between the youngest and oldest competitors will span nearly four decades. But ...

Java Development Kit (JDK) 26, a planned update to standard Java due March 17, 2026, has reached the initial release candidate (RC) stage. The RC is open for critical bug fixes, with the feature set ...

Abstract: Generalized age feature extraction is crucial for age-related facial analysis tasks, such as age estimation and age-invariant face recognition (AIFR). Despite the recent successes of models ...

As more countries look to follow Australia's lead and introduce social media bans for children, we ask whether Australia's legislation is working. Spain and Greece are the latest countries to say they ...

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