Florida bars kids from social media, EV charging tips to make your money go farther and AI ambitions at Apple’s developer fest
Marketplace Tech
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🗓️ 29 March 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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In this week’s episode of Marketplace Tech Bytes: Week in Review, Lily Jamali chats with Joanna Stern, The Wall Street Journal’s senior personal tech columnist, who takes us on a road trip through New Jersey’s network of Tesla superchargers. Stern recently explored how drivers of non-Tesla electric vehicles can now use these stations via an adapter. It’s part of her larger look into the best ways to save money supercharging your EV. Also this week, we’ll get Stern’s take on what to expect at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, which will kick off June 10 in Cupertino, California. But first, a look at a new law in Florida, the latest legislative attempt to address the potential harms social media can inflict on children. It prohibits kids 13 and under from creating accounts on popular platforms.
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| 0:00.0 | Adventures in EVV ownership don't require quite as much adventure anymore. |
| 0:07.0 | From American public media, this is Marketplace Tech. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm L Dramale. It is Friday which means it's time for Marketplace Tech Bites week in review. |
| 0:25.0 | We're joined this week by Joanna Stern, senior personal tech columnist at the Wall Street Journal. |
| 0:30.0 | She'll take us along on a road trip through New Jersey's network of Tesla |
| 0:35.0 | superchargers. The company is opening up its stations to other brands. Good |
| 0:39.7 | news for Joanna, who has been leasing an Electric Ford Mustang. |
| 0:44.4 | Also this week we'll get Joanna's take on what to expect at the Apple Worldwide Developers |
| 0:48.9 | Conference, which it was announced this week, will kick off on June 10th in Cupertino. |
| 0:55.0 | But first, we look at a new law in Florida, the latest attempt to legislate away the potential harms of social media on children. |
| 1:03.0 | It prohibits kids 13 and under from creating accounts on popular platforms. |
| 1:08.0 | Here's Joanna. |
| 1:10.0 | Look, it's not for the lack of trying that tech companies have tried to get these kids off of their social media platforms or at least tried to say hey we set a age of 13 if you're younger than that you shouldn't be on here. But what happens is that |
| 1:24.5 | parents end up signing up their kids. They make an account for them. And this is where we have a lot of |
| 1:30.8 | kids that are younger than 13, frankly, on social media, and this is minors who |
| 1:36.0 | are 14 and 15, this is targeting. |
| 1:38.1 | So this is a step up. |
| 1:39.1 | Yeah, this is important. |
| 1:40.8 | These platforms, as you just alluded alluded to whether you're talking about |
| 1:43.8 | Facebook or Snapchat they already have policies that prohibit kids under 13 from |
| 1:49.5 | joining apparently kids are using false birth dates. They're figuring out how to get around it |
| 1:55.4 | maybe with the help of parents. So do you think a law like this can actually change |
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