Russian ban on Roblox gaming platform sparks rare protest

Several dozen people protested on Sunday in the Siberian city of Tomsk against Russia's ban on U.S. children's gaming ...

Hidden in plain sight: Mom discovers 'calculator' app on child's phone was vault for predator chats

A Nassau County mother found an innocent-looking calculator app. She was horrified to find out what it was really hiding and ...
GitHub

ESP32 Speech-to-Text (No API Key Required)

An ESP32 client that captures audio over I2S and posts WAV to a server. A lightweight Flask/Gunicorn server that returns JSON transcriptions via speech_recognition. Designed for deterministic embedded ...
IEEE

Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech Recognition Using Deep Learning

Abstract: Speech-to-Text (STT) and Text-to-Speech (TTS) recognition technologies have witnessed significant advancements in recent years, transforming various industries and applications. STT allows ...
GitHub

Kokoro Web - Free AI Text to Speech

Kokoro Web is powered by hexgrad/Kokoro-82M, an open-weight 82 million parameter Text-to-Speech model available on Hugging Face. Despite its lightweight architecture, it delivers comparable quality to ...

Australia news LIVE: Labor plan to buy gas to stop factory closures; Pentagon review confirms AUKUS timeline

Labor is weighing an unprecedented federal intervention to start bulk-buying natural gas from east-coast producers and selling it to local businesses at discounted rates as it seeks to head off ...

Meta has begun shutting down kids' social media in Australia. The world is watching to see how it unfolds

As platforms like Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube begin to comply with Australia's new landmark law banning social ...

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

The videogame platform is looking more and more like the next YouTube. Investors are missing the opportunity.
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 ...
PC Gamer

Roblox to make facial age checks mandatory to access any chat features, and will put 'common-sense limits' on the age ranges users can chat within

Roblox is to become the first major gaming platform where facial age verification will be mandatory to access any chat features. In 2024, the platform averaged over 80 million players a day, ...
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 ...
Reuters

Roblox to require age checks to use platform's chat features

WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Gaming platform Roblox will require users to verify their age using facial recognition software to chat with other players, a company executive said, with the goal of ...