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As of Friday, anyone trying to watch porn online in the UK will need to subject themselves to an awkward selfie or get their photo ID ready. The UK government announced it will start checking compliance with its Online Safety Act, which requires any website that publishes or displays pornographic content to implement a system for “highly effective age checks.” …

That’s why the declining pleasure of the airport lounge resonates for a deeper reason: it’s a metaphor for the declining prospects of the upper middle class in an age of “elite overproduction,” which argues that certain societies grow so rich and successful that they produce too many people of premium education for the number of premium jobs—or premium experiences—that the …

The UK have put in place an age restriction gate on several online platforms, barring access to adult-oriented sites unless users present a picture of themselves that proves they’re of age. Reception to this change has certainly been mixed from UK residents, with people generally being frustrated by the barrier of having to do face ID every time they want …

Cutting corners: When the United Kingdom began strictly enforcing age verification rules on all adult websites, many predicted a spike in VPN usage – and provider Proton now has the data to prove it. But another unusual and amusing workaround has also emerged. Proton VPN reported a 1,400% increase in logins from the UK on Friday. The company attributed the …

Delta Air Lines is having a good 2025, reporting strong second-quarter earnings and reinstating its April profit guidance, leading to a substantial stock bump (up roughly 16% from June to July). True, its guidance is down from its January projections, but it’s weathering the storm of the tricky global economy well, maintaining its status as America’s leading premium airline. As …

In an effort to help parents decide which apps they should download or avoid for their kids on iPhones, iPads, MacBooks, Apple Watches, Apple TVs and the Apple Vision Pro, Apple has added three new age ratings: 13 plus, 16 plus and 18 plus. To make things a little clearer, Apple removed the 12- and 17-plus ratings (but kept the 4- and 9-plus ratings). …

Real reason behind wrinkles The idea that skin folds only because you get older or spend too many summers on the beach is too simple. A new set of experiments from Binghamton University shows that wrinkles form when the living fabric of your skin starts behaving like a stretched piece of ‘silly putty’. Using strips of real human skin from …

Earlier this week, the United Kingdom’s age assurance requirement for sites that publish pornographic material went into effect, which has resulted in everything from Pornhub to Reddit and Discord displaying an age verification panel when users attempt to visit. There’s just one little problem. As The Verge notes, all it takes to defeat the age-gating is a VPN, and those …

Mustafa Suleyman, Microsoft’s AI CEO, has a vision of Copilot that involves it being so highly personalized that “it will age.” Microsoft has been increasingly pushing Copilot to be a personalized AI assistant, with a big redesign last year that included a conversational voice mode. Now, Suleyman’s Microsoft AI team is launching a new Copilot virtual character that will interact …

Muscle mass and strength naturally decline with age, but there are things you can do to protect and maintain your muscles. A healthy diet and exercise are your best bet for muscle health, which can improve physical function and mobility while preventing frailty and falls. Sarcopenia — the gradual loss of muscle and strength — can start in the 30s …