USA Today

Here's the best age to take Social Security, based on simple math

For Americans of a certain age, there may be no bigger question than this. At what age should I take Social Security? At age 62? Sixty-five? Seventy? The question matters, because your monthly Social ...
9to5Mac

App age verification in action: What you share and who gets your information

App age verification isn’t just a theoretical concept being debated in Congress. A number of laws have already passed that require platforms to verify age for users in select states. For example, the ...
syracuse.com

Key change coming to Social Security retirement age in 2026

Social Security’s full retirement age will hit a new threshold in 2026, according to CBS News. The age will reach 67 for everyone born in 1960 or later. That means anyone born that year won’t qualify ...
Engadget

The year age verification laws came for the open internet

Chris Fields, CMO of AI-powered age verification start-up Yoti, giving a demonstration of the company's age verification technology at their offices in London. (Photo by HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP via Getty ...
Reader's Digest

Here’s Why Everyone Is Talking About Their Spotify Age

If you’ve been on social media for more than 12 seconds this week, you’ve probably seen people announcing their Spotify Listening Age like it’s the latest zodiac sign. Everyone’s posting it, ...
Forbes

‘Age Is Just A Number’—2025 Spotify Wrapped Includes ‘Listening Age’

This year’s Spotify Wrapped gives an estimate of listener’s ages, based on their favorite music—naturally, the Listening Age was wildly inaccurate, leading to some hilarious memes. Spotify Wrapped ...
Rolling Stone

Here’s How Spotify Wrapped Calculated Your Listening Age — And Here’s Rolling Stone’s

“Age is just a number. So don’t take this personally,” the Spotify slide warns, before revealing each user’s calculated listening age. How exactly did Spotify land on that number, though? Marc Hazan, ...
The Daily Dot

“I’m a literal baby!”: Millennials say they don’t *feel* their age, and it’s messing with their heads

A TikToker spoke on her experience with “millennial age dysmorphia”—a condition that’s leaving her shocked when she’s treated her age. In late October, Helen McPherson expressed that she still feels ...
New York Post

The age our bodies reach a ‘tipping point’ — and stop being able to ‘bounce back’ easily

Sticks and stones may break your bones — but they won’t heal as easily past a certain age. New research has found the “point of no return” when we no longer recover as well from illness and injury, no ...
Black Enterprise

The Social Security Retirement Age Rises Close To Average Life Expectancy

Increases to the full retirement age will continue eventually reaching the age of 70. Starting in 2026, the normal retirement age for Social Security benefits will increase to 67 for Americans born in ...