{"id":224274,"date":"2026-05-07T06:54:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224274"},"modified":"2026-05-07T06:54:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T06:54:53","slug":"the-download-turning-down-human-noise-and-las-stunning-subway-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=224274","title":{"rendered":"The Download: turning down human noise, and LA\u2019s stunning subway upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is today\u2019s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what\u2019s going on in the world of technology. The noise we make is hurting animals. Can we learn to shut up? As human society has expanded, animals have started struggling to hear one another&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2026\/04\/21\/1136246\/the-download-human-noise-la-subway-upgrade\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is today\u2019s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":224275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224274-the-download-turning-down-human-noise-and-las-stunning-subway-upgrade.webp",1200,600,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224274-the-download-turning-down-human-noise-and-las-stunning-subway-upgrade-150x150.webp",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224274-the-download-turning-down-human-noise-and-las-stunning-subway-upgrade-300x150.webp",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224274-the-download-turning-down-human-noise-and-las-stunning-subway-upgrade-768x384.webp",640,320,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224274-the-download-turning-down-human-noise-and-las-stunning-subway-upgrade-1024x512.webp",640,320,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224274-the-download-turning-down-human-noise-and-las-stunning-subway-upgrade.webp",1200,600,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224274-the-download-turning-down-human-noise-and-las-stunning-subway-upgrade.webp",1200,600,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224274-the-download-turning-down-human-noise-and-las-stunning-subway-upgrade-1024x512.webp",1024,512,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224274-the-download-turning-down-human-noise-and-las-stunning-subway-upgrade-825x575.webp",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/224274-the-download-turning-down-human-noise-and-las-stunning-subway-upgrade-590x410.webp",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\/224274","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=224274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/224275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=224274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=224274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=224274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}