{"id":12209,"date":"2021-07-12T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T12:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/?p=12209"},"modified":"2021-07-12T08:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T12:00:39","slug":"tencent-uses-facial-recognition-to-ban-kids-gaming-past-bedtime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/tencent-uses-facial-recognition-to-ban-kids-gaming-past-bedtime\/12209\/","title":{"rendered":"Tencent Uses Facial Recognition to Ban Kids Gaming Past Bedtime"},"content":{"rendered":"Originally published in Bloomberg, July 8, 2021. In the latest bid to curb video-game addiction in China, tech giant\u00a0Tencent Holdings Ltd.\u00a0has launched a facial recognition system to stop minors gaming into the night. The initiative will prevent people under 18 from playing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. The system, dubbed Midnight Patrol, is in place in more than 60 of Tencent\u2019s games and includes popular titles like \u201cHonor of Kings\u201d and \u201cPeacekeeper Elite,\u201d the company said in a\u00a0press release\u00a0Tuesday. The facial-recognition system will allow Tencent to thwart the tactics kids have developed to get around current age <a href=\"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/tencent-uses-facial-recognition-to-ban-kids-gaming-past-bedtime\/12209\/\" class=\"more-link\">(more&hellip;)<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in Bloomberg, July 8, 2021. In the latest bid to curb video-game addiction in China, tech giant\u00a0Tencent Holdings Ltd.\u00a0has launched a facial recognition system to stop minors gaming into the night. The initiative will prevent people under 18 from playing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. The system, dubbed Midnight Patrol, is in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":72,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,48],"tags":[879,59,368,230,243],"class_list":["post-12209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news","category-left-hand","tag-ai","tag-analytics","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-data-analytics","tag-machine-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/72"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12209"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12214,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12209\/revisions\/12214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.predictiveanalyticsworld.com\/machinelearningtimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}