The United Kingdom must comply with the age verification request for Xbox, Microsoft recently announced. The measure seeks to protect gamers, particularly younger ones.

The announcement has put countries such as Spain, Mexico, and Colombia on alert, considering that the measure could affect local gamers.

As the technology company stated, “the verification affects accounts declared as 18 years of age or older and will be required to continue using social features such as voice chat, messages, or game invites without limitations.” For its part, Xbox confirmed in an official statement that the decision has no impact on “games, history, or previous purchases, but those who do not verify their age will see their social use restricted to friends only starting in 2026.”

In the document, Xbox clarifies that the measure “seeks to comply with the UK Online Safety Act, a law that requires mechanisms to protect minors on digital platforms. Verification will be mandatory starting in early 2026, although users can already complete it voluntarily now to avoid future restrictions.”

Among the options for completing age verification, the platform offers several secure options: through an official ID, a bank card, a mobile operator card, or facial recognition. They assure us that this process is encrypted, and the information is not stored or used for other purposes.

Regarding security, Microsoft maintains its recommendation that parents create child or youth accounts from the beginning, given that they “do not require additional verification and can be easily managed from the Xbox Family Settings app.”

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This Monday, the value of Bitcoin, the main digital currency on the market, reached USD 42,000. Investors expect the bullish trend to continue, despite expectations for the Fed’s announcements next week.

Analysts consider that this is a revaluation of the cryptocurrency above 5 %. And they add that it may be influenced by the new employment data in the United States, which will be announced this Friday, December 8.

Revaluation of Bitcoin amid adverse factors

Without a doubt, the monetary policy of the North American country facing 2024, and taking into account that it will be the year of presidential elections, directly influences the value of bitcoin. To any measure announced by the Federal Reserve, a possible authorization in January of a bitcoin ETF by the SEC must be added, in addition to the reduction that bitcoin miners suffer every four years in their reward, known as halving.

Amid adverse circumstances in the crypto market, such as the recent sentencing of FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and the fine imposed on Binance CEO Changpeng Zao, who also had to leave office, the authorities’ decisions are leveraging the confidence in bitcoin, which this Monday reached USD 42,000, and then stabilized and closed around $41,537.

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Google announced a new series of measures aimed at the Android online application store, Play Store, among which are those that seek to put an end to invasive advertising and improve the experience during its use.

The regulation will come into force as of September 30 of this year and requires the developers of these services to implement other ad formats that do not divert the attention of users or interrupt their activity.

The company detailed on its support page which will be the affected ads, which will no longer be able to be implemented in the applications that are part of the Play Store as of that date.

First, the company indicated that full-screen ads are not allowed in different formats, such as GIFs or videos, “which are displayed unexpectedly, generally when the user has chosen to do something else”, as can be read in this text.

Ads appearing during gameplay at the start of a given level or during the start of a segment of its content are also not allowed.

On the other hand, those from Mountain View pointed out that it will not be possible to integrate full-screen video ads during the welcome screen. That is, at the time an application is loaded.

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The United States will open its borders this week to vaccinated international travelers after 20 months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. This measure will be carried out at the land, air and sea borders and a day of incidents is expected.

The new policy will end non-essential travel restrictions that were first enforced in March 2020, although Americans had no restrictions on returning home.

Until now, only foreigners with permanent residence and holders of specific visas (such as students) have been able to enter the country from the affected regions. To get there, many foreigners have had to first go through Mexico or Costa Rica, remain in quarantine for two weeks, and then fly to the United States.

Travelers will need to present proof of complete regimen of one of the six vaccines authorized by the WHO: Moderna, Pfizer, Janssen, AstraZeneca, Sinovac and Sinopharm. Others, like Sputnik, are not allowed.

Travelers must also present a negative PCR or antigen test carried out no later than three days before the trip. Those under 18 do not need to be vaccinated, but a negative test for those over 2 years of age is a must.

Source: dpa

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Venezuela is in search of a new institutional agreement, which would allow to carry out a new impulse for the local economy.

The Venezuelan government is focused on this goal which hopefully could be achieved gradually, all thanks to the open dialogue between productive sectors and the national Executive itself.

Part of the commitment and the new relationship between the government and businessmen must be to achieve a macroeconomic agreement, which fundamentally contributes to ending inflation, achieving fiscal balance, establishing an adequate monetary strategy that supports the objectives of speed reduction prices, and create a framework for entrepreneurs to invest with appropriate levels of risk.

For this main reasons, the country is in a constant search for greater economic profitability, which allows it to overcome certain situations that today can be greatly improved, and that would bring great benefit to the general population.

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Source: Bancaynegocios

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