Meta announced it’s bringing some new parental tools to Quest headsets in the next few months which are aimed at giving parents more control over what their teens see and do in VR. Meta’s VR headsets, ...

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Parents can "nudge" their teens to take a break on Instagram and approve or deny purchase requests on Quest headsets. Attila covers software, apps and services, with a focus on virtual private ...

A little over a year ago, social media companies were put on notice for how they protect, or fail to protect, their youngest users. In a series of congressional hearings, executives from Facebook, ...

Digital distribution service Metaboli has announced the launch of a new parental control feature based on nationwide research from online parenting resource Mumsnet. The new tool allows parents to set ...

Social media may be a thorny topic between parents and kids who communicate with their peers via the latest social apps. Getting kids off these said apps isn’t easy, not to mention mental health and ...

Roblox, the immensely popular social media and gaming platform with nearly 90 million daily active users, has recently come under scrutiny for safety concerns. The platform's lack of strict age ...

Instagram finally rolled out its much-needed parental controls, which were announced in December 2021, in the US on Wednesday. The platform's head Adam Mosseri wrote on Meta's official blog that it ...

Until recently, Disney+ has been a haven for family-friendly fare, with PG-13 movies from the Marvel and Star Wars universes being the most grown-up titles available on the service. All three of those ...

PC gaming tends to be a solitary affair, leaving the living room co-op to console players. Even so, Steam has offered some sharing and parental controls before, in features such as Family Sharing and ...

The logo of the ChatGPT app can be seen on the display of a smartphone on Sept. 2, 2025. Credit - Matthias Balk—Getty Images OpenAI is set to begin rolling out “parental controls” for its AI chatbot ...

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