Published on: 2025-04-19 07:43:13
A new animated kids’ series expected to premiere this year won’t be headed for a TV network. Or a streaming service. Instead, the founders of production studio We Ghosted Media plan to launch on a decentralized web platform that uses blockchain technology. And yes, a crypto wallet will be involved. We Ghosted Media — founded by Chris Jammal, an assistant director for “Bob’s Burgers,” and Jaclynn Demas, producer of hit children’s show “Peg + Cat” — is a TV production studio abandoning tradition
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-20 15:30:00
GuardianGamer has a solution for worried parents who want to support their kids’ social gaming activity while ensuring safety in digital playgrounds like Minecraft and Roblox. GuardianGamer ought to pique the interest of a lot of parents, considering that Minecraft is having a moment. A Minecraft Movie, based on the popular sandbox Microsoft game, has generated $570 million at the box office in two weeks while Roblox has 380 million monthly active users. Back in December, Microsoft said Minecra
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-18 18:17:16
In my memories of the Scottish hospital, the sky is always blue, though I know that can’t be completely accurate. Summer was waning, and as my friends and I had already experienced, Edinburgh was prone to unpredictable storms. Yet, I can’t think of a single moment of rain in the two weeks I lay in bed. My morphine-soaked haze only allowed glimpses and fragments: the bracing air coming in from an open window, the rough comfort of my mother’s fingers wiping my fever-moist brow, my father’s tears.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 20:30:27
Aamir Siddiqui / Android Authority I love to obsess over new iPhone releases as much as I do for new Android flagships, but not everyone cares about smartphones as much. If your life doesn’t revolve around tech, you’ll find that phones have become increasingly complex and overkill. Huge sizes to accommodate big displays, multiple cameras shrouded in megapixels and marketing, AI this and AI that, and a price tag that breaks the bank — it can be rather overwhelming to pick your next smartphone if
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-17 23:51:53
Roblox, the popular gaming platform geared toward preteens, has made substantial updates to its safety policy in the last year following accusations of insufficient safety measures for children, which could expose them to risks like grooming, explicit content, and violent material. The company announced Wednesday three new parental control features, including the option for them to block access to certain experiences or people on their kid’s friends list, as well as the ability to track which e
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 03:00:05
Roblox is again updating its parental control features in an effort to give parents more visibility into (and control over) their children’s activities on the platform. The company is updating its in-app “Safety Center” to counter concerns that Roblox, which unlike social media apps allows children under 13, puts its youngest users at risk. The company added the centralized hub for parental controls last year, in an update that also added new restrictions on younger kids’ ability to exchange pr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-18 10:00:00
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Roblox is introducing new parental controls that give parents more tools to control the people their children talk to and the experiences they can access, according to a blog post from chief safety officer Matt Kaufman. The updates build on changes introduced last year, which included a special type of account parents and caregivers can use to remotely manage some aspects of
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-23 10:08:13
Character.AI, the controversial chatbot startup embroiled in two separate lawsuits concerning the welfare of minor users, just rolled out a new "Parental Insights" feature that the company claims will give parents a deeper glimpse into how their kids are using the chatbot platform. In a blog post on Tuesday, the youth-beloved Character.AI characterized the feature as an "initial step" towards developing robust safety and parental control tools. Let's hope so: this tool appears to be absurdly ea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-09 06:00:39
Gone are the days of kids asking their parent to borrow cash or their card when going out with friends. Instead, parents can now give their kids access to Google Wallet for making in-store payments with their Android device. Google first announced that this feature was coming back in October. Kids can also use Google Wallet to store passes to things, including a library card, ticket for an event or a gift card. But, parents have a lot of oversight, such as receiving an email every time their ch
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 23:06:12
Keep kids off Roblox if you're worried, its CEO tells parents 2 hours ago Share Save Zoe Kleinman & Georgina Hayes Technology editor & reporter Share Save Getty Images Roblox has seen meteoric growth among young gamers Parents who don't want their children on Roblox should not let them use it, the chief executive of the gigantic gaming platform has said. The site, which is the most popular in the UK among young gamers aged eight to 12, has been dogged by claims of some children being exposed
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 09:22:00
TikTok is the latest tech company to double down on features designed to protect young users. On Tuesday, the company announced a handful of new tools designed to give parents greater control and visibility into how teens use the app. Parents are now able to block access to TikTok during certain times, such as at night, when teens are at school, or on weekends, and set recurring schedules for time away. A teen can also request more time, but it's up to the parents to approve the request by shar
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 14:18:55
TikTok has announced several new features launching today for teens and parents to help “build balanced digital habits.” Here’s what that means. For parents of TikTok teens A big part of today’s new batch of features is giving new tools to parents for monitoring their teen’s use of TikTok. To that end, there are two new features launching: Time Away : “Today, we’re enhancing Family Pairing by launching a way for parents to block their teens from being on TikTok during times that they control
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 14:54:16
TikTok — at least according to the bevy of civil and federal lawsuits against it — is not known for being a safe place for children. In part it has has leaned on parents to do the policing through its Family Pairing tool, which allows guardians to limit teens' screen time and block certain content. Now, TikTok is introducing additional features that allow a paired adult to see their teen's connections and choose when the app is even accessible. The first new feature, Time Away, lets parents set
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-22 17:47:48
TikTok announced on Tuesday that it’s rolling out new features to protect teens on its app. The social network is giving parents the ability to block their teen from using TikTok during certain hours and see their teen’s following and followers lists through new Family Pairing features. TikTok is also going to encourage young users to put their phones away at night and go to sleep. With the new “Time Away” feature, parents can block their teens from accessing TikTok during times that they contr
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-29 07:35:00
The Utah legislature passed an age-verification bill on Wednesday requiring app store operations to verify the age of their users and require consent from the parents of minors before downloading an app. The state became the first in the US to reach this point with such a law, the App Store Accountability Act, as many states grapple with evolving age verification requirements for social media platforms and how to protect young users online. Lawmakers in several states have proposed bills requir
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-08 00:56:00
Whether you're a parent or a teen, online life and tech use is fraught with obstacles to navigate, and it can often feel like there's little the tech companies of the world are doing little to help ease the angst. Most of the tech kids use -- from smartphones to social media -- was never designed with them specifically in mind. Finnish phone-maker HMD is setting out to change that, and here in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress 2025 introduced its new Family Portfolio with the Fusion X1, a phon
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-07 22:09:00
Whether you're a parent or a teen, online life and tech use is fraught with obstacles to navigate, and it can often feel like there's little the tech companies of the world are doing little to help ease the angst. Most of the tech kids use -- from smartphones to social media -- was never designed with them specifically in mind. Finnish phone-maker HMD is setting out to change that, and here in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress 2025 introduced its new Family Portfolio with the Fusion X1, a phon
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-09 03:31:00
Apple is introducing new child-safety measures that affect how the accounts of minors are set up and what they can see across the App Store. The changes, detailed in a "Helping Protect Kids Online" white paper on Apple's developer website, highlight how the company is taking steps to better protect young users online. It's part of a broader effort to minimize data collection and give parents more control over what's shared with app developers, the company said. The changes also come amid mounti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 02:11:25
is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. Apple announced in a whitepaper that it plans to introduce a bunch of new child safety features, including letting parents share their kids’ age ranges with apps, refreshing the App Store’s age ratings system, and making it easier for parents to set up Child Accounts for their kids. The company says it will introduce the features “this year.” Companies like Meta, Snap, and X
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-11 15:00:00
In a new whitepaper published today, Apple outlined several tools it already offers to parents and developers to “help enhance child safety while safeguarding privacy. This includes Screen Time, Find My, Communication Saftey, Communication Limits, and more. Over this year, Apple is introducing new features to build on its commitment to user privacy, security, and safety for children: Make it even easier for parents to set up Child Accounts that underlie many of our parental controls. Put pare
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