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What's up, sunshine? Happy Friday eve.
Time for your news for this Thursday,
August 21st. Hope you're having an
awesome day. Keep your eyes on the
stars. Act like one of them because you
are, but keep your feet on the ground.
Keep it humble, too. I'm Koi Wire. This
is CNN 10. Your 10 minutes of news
starts now. We start with some big
changes that might prevent you from
visiting parts of the world's second
most visited website. Top visited site
is Google. Any guesses what the second
most visited is? If you say YouTube, you
rock. You may even be watching me on
your CNN 10 YouTube channel right now.
The video sharing platform has
everything from TV shows to live
streams, cat videos, dance tutorials. It
is home to more than 5 billion videos as
we speak. But some changes are underway
that could impact how and if you can
view certain content. The site is
rolling out an AI powered age
verification tool. It's part of a push
to help keep younger users safe. But get
this, the artificial intelligence
technology will guess your age and
automatically restrict any age
inappropriate content. Well, what
happens if it gets your age wrong? Our
Claire Duffy has a deeper look.
Hey Coy. Yeah, if you are a YouTube user
under the age of 18, this change could
affect your experience on the platform.
What YouTube is trying to do here is
address the criticisms as it's rolled
out youth safety features that young
people can pretty easily evade them by
just signing up for YouTube with a fake
birth date. So, YouTube is trying to
address that with this new AI age
verification system. How it's going to
work is the AI is essentially going to
be guessing if users are adults or
minors regardless of the birth date that
they signed up with. based on the videos
that they're watching and searching for
and the length of time that their
account has been active. If the AI
guesses that a user is a minor, they
will be automatically opted into some of
these teen safety features, things like
restrictions on the types of videos that
users can watch, so preventing them from
watching videos that are graphic or have
nudity. They also will be getting these
wellness reminders like take a break
notifications, and they won't receive
personalized ads. But if an adult user
is wrongly identified as a teen, they
will have to upload an ID, a credit
card, or a selfie in order to prove
their age and keep using the adult
version of the platform. And that is
starting to raise some privacy concerns.
Users who say they don't want to turn
over their personal information to the
platform. And security experts have also
raised concerns about how YouTube parent
company Google will be handling that
sensitive information. Now, I did ask
YouTube about this and they said
essentially that they have
state-of-the-art security systems and
they won't be using people's personal
information, their IDs, their credit
cards for advertising purposes. But it
does sound like they will be hanging on
to some of that information. And I will
say Koi too, that this is something that
users might start to see more and more
across various different platforms. In
Mississippi, we just saw the Supreme
Court uphold a state law that requires
all social media platforms to verify the
ages of all of their users. All in an
effort to prevent young people from
accessing harmful content. But it does
raise these sort of tricky questions
about privacy and security. Back to you.
Pop quiz hot shot. Which of these
capital cities boasts the highest
elevation in the world? Mexico City,
Tehran, Ptoria, or La Paz?
If you said la pause, la pause and give
yourself a round of applause. The
administration capital of Bolivia checks
in at a whopping 11,975
ft above sea level. It's actually one of
Bolivia's two capitals, the other being
the city of Sukre. I am really digging
this next story. Archaeologists say
they've made an extraordinary discovery
that could shed more light on a
mysterious civilization that disappeared
more than a thousand years ago. They've
discovered the ruins of what they
believe are the boundaries of an ancient
temple belonging to the Tiwanaku, a
powerful empire that predates the Incan
civilization. The team unearthed the
immense complex in the highlands of what
is now Bolivia at a site southeast of
the nation's largest lake. The
remarkable find is more than 100 miles
from the site of the ancient empire's
capital, also called Tiwanaku, a UNESCO
World Heritage site, often called the
Stonehedge of the Americas. Researchers
hope this new find will help them better
understand the extent of the Tiwanaku's
territory and help further unravel the
secrets of this lost society.
While we have seen many states and
cities in the US, Europe, Canada,
Australia, and beyond implement bans or
restrictions on plastic straws in an
effort to preserve the planet, we've
also seen a boom in plastic straw
alternatives, glass, metal, bamboo,
paper. But which one's the best for our
planet? We sent a crew of some sincere
sippers to a lab for a taste test and
straw the data with an environmental
expert. The results might make you
rethink what you're sipping on. And
here's Vanessa and our SIP squad with
more.
We have seven straws here. One is best
for the environment. Can you guess which
one?
The straw. Just one of hundreds of
plastic items that we use that companies
say they've now made eco-friendly. So,
we invited the most honest and impartial
straw experts to CNN.
Now, we're on TV.
Let's all start with the glass.
What do you think about Satisfying to
put in? Well, I already bumped my tooth,
so glass straws are reusable and could
last a long time.
It wouldn't be a straw that I would use
all the time. I might use it a few
times, but like not all the time.
But glass straws have a big problem, and
it's similar to the issue posed in our
next test. Stainless steel.
I like the feeling of the the cold metal
in my mouth.
I think I tasted a different flavoring.
Yeah, like the first sip it tastes
almost kind of like different, but as
you kept drinking it, it tastes like
water. Here's our professional straw
expert. The kids will hear from him
after their final vote.
The pros for the metal straws are
obviously it lasts a long time. The cons
come in the raw material extraction to
the energy needed to produce that metal.
If you're washing that straw every day,
that takes water, that takes soap, etc.
And all of that requires energy.
Let's try the bamboo.
This tastes like bamboo.
Yeah, it does. That's what I thought,
too. Bamboo itself is a pretty
sustainable material with regards to
water usage, but you still have to grow
those plants and then you have to
manufacture them into the straw and that
also requires a lot of energy.
Many straws are meant to be
biodegradable or composted like paper or
pasta. This one is made from a
biodegradable plant-based plastic called
PLA.
I don't want it to turn back into a
plant in my drink.
Nearly 60% of this type of plastic, like
the straw we tested, won't fully break
down in home compost. According to a UK
study in Frontier,
when I started to research this topic,
the most surprising thing to me was that
single-use plastics were the most
environmentally friendly option.
Yeah, I think I'm a little more
confused.
You can't get it right with something as
simple as a straw. What about bigger
things in the world?
Oh. Oh, this next story is a really big
deal. Instacart, the grocery delivery
service, released a sales report for
pickles for 2024. The results are
jarring. Drum roll. It is Mount Olive
topping the list as the pinnacle of
pickle sales in America. Velic Clawson,
oh snap, and grills round out the top
five. They even mapped out who's buying
the most pickles, too. You Midwesterners
relish in your beloved brined cucumbers.
I see. Instacart says part of what's
fueling the boom are some delightful
pickle collabs with influencers on
social media like pickle lemonade. Some
brands are even putting the recipes for
such mashups on their websites.
Instacart also reports that Lays dill
pickle flavor chips are the most popular
crossover item. Did you know?
[Applause]
Today's story getting a 10 out of 10. A
rad ride from coast to coast, collecting
colossal quantities of cash for a cause.
Brooke Johnson just became the first
woman ever to skateboard across the USA,
completing a grueling shred session from
California to Virginia Beach.
Times is so hard. Oh my god, I've cried
so many times. I'm just a girl, you
know? I'm just a girl.
But she's not just any girl. Brooke
stayed on her grind for 118 days,
carving her way cross country and
rolling with any and all challenges
coming her way. She was able to raise
more than 50,000 bucks for spinal cord
research in honor of her late stepfather
who recently died after sustaining a
spinal cord injury. Brooke hopes the
record- setting ride will help inspire
others to realize that they are more
powerful than they know.
You can do anything, absolutely anything
you put your mind to. And also, you have
to do it for a very long time. You're
going to fall a lot. You're going to hit
a lot of walls. It's going to be really
difficult, but you can do anything you
put your mind to. Like, why not?
Go get them, superstars. I have three
shout outs today for this third Thursday
of the month. The first one, Miss Walls
at Bickl Public School, Grand Prairie,
Alberta, Canada. Thank you for this
super cool 3D printed model. This will
be going on our wall of friends for
show. And from our YouTube channel, my
fellow K-pop demon hunter fans, Miss
Parks class at the Sun Nam Jungja School
in Kyongi, South Korea. You are getting
a
and spending part of your day with us.
Go out and make someone smile today.
You're more powerful than you know. I'm
Ky Wire and we are CNN 10.