{"id":218364,"date":"2026-04-08T20:48:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=218364"},"modified":"2026-04-08T20:48:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T20:48:18","slug":"the-download-a-bid-to-treat-blindness-and-bridging-the-internet-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=218364","title":{"rendered":"The Download: A bid to treat blindness, and bridging the internet divide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is today\u2019s edition of\u00a0The Download,\u00a0our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what\u2019s going on in the world of technology. The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin \u201cshortly\u201d Life Biosciences, a small Boston startup founded by Harvard professor and life-extension evangelist David Sinclair&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/01\/28\/1131830\/the-download-a-bid-to-treat-blindness-and-bridging-the-internet-divide\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is today\u2019s edition of\u00a0The Download,\u00a0our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what\u2019s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218364-the-download-a-bid-to-treat-blindness-and-bridging-the-internet-divide.jpg",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218364-the-download-a-bid-to-treat-blindness-and-bridging-the-internet-divide-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218364-the-download-a-bid-to-treat-blindness-and-bridging-the-internet-divide-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218364-the-download-a-bid-to-treat-blindness-and-bridging-the-internet-divide-768x384.jpg",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218364-the-download-a-bid-to-treat-blindness-and-bridging-the-internet-divide-1024x512.jpg",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218364-the-download-a-bid-to-treat-blindness-and-bridging-the-internet-divide.jpg",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218364-the-download-a-bid-to-treat-blindness-and-bridging-the-internet-divide.jpg",1200,600,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218364-the-download-a-bid-to-treat-blindness-and-bridging-the-internet-divide-1024x512.jpg",1024,512,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218364-the-download-a-bid-to-treat-blindness-and-bridging-the-internet-divide-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/218364-the-download-a-bid-to-treat-blindness-and-bridging-the-internet-divide-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=35\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/218365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}