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COY WIRE: What's up, lovely people?
It's your boy Coy ready to shine bright with you
this first Friday of March.
Fridays rock.
But before we get to the weekend,
let's make it a strong end to the week.
We're fueled up and ready to rock it out with you right here
on "CNN 10," the best 10 minutes in news.
And we're going to start today with what I call the scroll
that squashes your goals, spending
too much time on social media.
In social media app, TikTok is looking
to put a lockdown on all your looking around on their wildly
popular platform.
On Wednesday, TikTok announced that users under 18 years
of age will have their accounts locked after one hour of screen
time on the app each day.
In order to continue, users are going
to have to enter a password.
Now, the company and many experts
believe that that feature could improve the digital being
of users by requiring them to actively
opt out of a screen time limit.
The new initiative will roll out in the coming weeks.
And it's one of the most aggressive moves yet
by a social media company to prevent people
from getting caught up in the seemingly endless scrolling
that can be really consuming.
The move also comes after TikTok and other social media
platforms have faced years of scrutiny of their impact
on young users.
And TikTok specifically is facing mounting pressure
from lawmakers-- some of whom feel
the platform should be banned altogether due in part
to online security concerns.
How much time do you spend scrolling each day?
We could all probably spend a little
less time on social media.
While apps, like TikTok, Instagram, and Snapchat
can be really powerful tools to learn, motivate, inspire,
and connect us with people, most experts
agree that too much screen time can have bad effects,
especially on young people.
More now from CNN Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
SANJAY GUPTA: Everyone knows that screen time
probably is a problem for them.
Whether you're a teenager or an adult,
we spend too much time on our phones.
And what's amazing is that look, these phones
have not been around that long.
So a lot of people are now researching
this trying to look into how much
time are we spending on phones?
And what can we do about it?
Interesting, one piece of data that jumped out at me,
the average person will pick up their phone to look at it, just
look at it 300 some times a day.
- Oh, wow.
SANJAY GUPTA: So you're just constantly doing this
and breaking that cycle, that initial cycle of look,
I don't even know why I'm picking up my phone.
I'm just doing it, I think, was a really important thing that
came up over and over again.
So Catherine Price, who wrote up a book--
wrote a book about "How to Break Up with Your Phone,"
she says ask these three questions.
Every time you pick up your phone, what for, why now,
and what else?
What else could I be doing instead?
It's just to sort of bring your brain back online for a second
so you're not mindlessly sort of starting to look at your phone.
- Yeah.
SANJAY GUPTA: I thought that was really interesting.
Something I've been doing already in my life.
COY WIRE: Let's continue now with part 4 of our series
on the future of travel, "The Next Frontier."
It's estimated that by the year 2050,
the world population could grow from 7.8 billion people
to nearly 9 billion.
Transportation experts are considering
how to support the travel needs for that many people.
But could the solution for congested cities
mean zipping around above the streets?
Here's Rahel Solomon with more.
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RAHEL SOLOMON: It's not a plane, and it's not a helicopter.
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But it might just be your aerial ticket to the next frontier
of urban transit.
This is VoloCity, an all-electric,
manned, drone-like aircraft.
It may look like something out of a sci-fi film.
But this high tech flyer is aiming to take
off in the very near future.
DIRK HOKE: The next frontier for me
is that we will see urban air mobility coming to life.
And we would see vehicles flying, bringing us from A
to B, making our life easier, and ensuring
a smooth end-to-end mobility.
My name is Dirk Hoke, and I'm the CEO of Volocopter.
RAHEL SOLOMON: German manufacturer
Volocopter has been busy building
the flying taxis of the future.
DIRK HOKE: I believe in 2050, we will be using air mobility
as a frequent transportation system
as we do today with taxis.
RAHEL SOLOMON: But Hoke is quick to tell us,
they're not trying to disrupt the travel industry.
DIRK HOKE: So it will not be used
where you have already an existing tram,
or you have an metro.
But in any area where you have very high traffic congestions,
the VoloCity will add more alternatives and options
to your daily journey.
RAHEL SOLOMON: VoloCity is designed for single passenger
intercity transit with defined routes,
like from the airport to a hub in the city center.
The aircraft is classified as eVTOL or electric
vertical take-off and landing.
DIRK HOKE: eVTOL means that we use
electric motors to lift the vehicle
and then to move forward.
RAHEL SOLOMON: They are pilot-controlled,
fly at low altitudes, and operate like drones.
DIRK HOKE: We chose a multicopter design.
That means we have 18 motors and rotors, which enables us to fly
very stable and fast and safe.
RAHEL SOLOMON: VoloCity's current range is 35 kilometers
and can reach speeds up to 110 kilometers per hour.
And it's all powered by nine swappable battery packs.
DIRK HOKE: We want to be adding a new modality
without adding to the congestion and to the emissions
of this world.
With that, we decided from the beginning to fly full electric.
RAHEL SOLOMON: Beyond last kilometer transit,
Volocopter has planned for a larger
integrated portfolio from the booking platform
to the landing platform.
DIRK HOKE: We also designed a VoloRegion, which
will be a five seater, connecting
regions and cities up to a distance of 200 kilometers.
We have also the VoloDrone, which is intended
to carry cargo up to 200 kilo.
And this is all managed by our software platform, which
we call VoloIQ, which is enabling not only to operate
these vehicles, but also to maintain the vehicles
and, of course, do also the booking and the security
check at the vertiport.
The VoloPorts are designed to optimize
the charging and the handling of the passenger.
We are now leaving the prototype status.
We're really on a very solid track
to go into commercial operation in summer 2024
in cities, like Paris and Rome, because we believe if we can
fly in Paris and Rome, we can fly
almost anywhere because it's a very complex, very dense,
urban environment.
RAHEL SOLOMON: Volocopter's ultimate goal
is autonomous flight.
But for now, there are more steps just to get
their fleet off the ground.
- There's still the management of airspace.
What are the paths?
How are they managed?
Do we have the regulatory space to allow
these things to be adopted?
And I think that's where you're going
to start to see, hopefully soon, some pretty, interesting
conversations taking place.
RAHEL SOLOMON: And perhaps a bigger hurdle?
Hoke says public acceptance.
DIRK HOKE: I really hope that people will embrace it.
I believe it's a very, very nice vision of the future to have
quiet, sustainable, air taxis.
And with that, we believe we will
have a big impact on the transportation of the future.
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COY WIRE: For today's story getting a 10 out of 10,
an unforgettable riveting story out of Australia where
a man named Dazza created a 3D printed home for a frog
he found hanging out in his fence.
It started small.
But as his TikTok video of the frogject
racked up more than 20 million views,
he got some really frogsome ideas from viewers.
The little pad has frogressed into an amphibious mansion
complete with a porch, plants, and a garden, and an
infinity edge waterfall pool.
Oh, and viewers named the frog Froderick,
and the homebuilder says that Froderick
has even had some friends come over
every now and then to visit--
unfrogettable.
All right, I want to give a special shout-out
to Northwood Middle School in Wakarusa, Indiana.
What's up, lovely people?
I also want to show some love to my friends
at Westview Middle School who sent me like,
all kinds of great letters and cards,
uplifting, motivating messages.
And they also send me this pretty
sweet T-shirt right here.
Titan up, everybody.
All right, let's keep shining.
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Have an awesome weekend.
And remember, you are more powerful than you know.
I'm Coy Wire, and it's been a blessing
to spend this week with you.
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