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The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives

Date
Friday, October 16, 2026 - 4:10 PM
Description
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve.   —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia

This implant can restore sight for patients with macular degeneration

Date
Friday, October 16, 2026 - 1:00 PM
Description
More than 5 million people around the world have an advanced form of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) called geographic atrophy, in which cells in the retinas die off. And until now, no treatment could restore their vision. The PRIMA system

The Download: reviving frozen pig kidneys and boosting nuclear power

Date
Thursday, October 15, 2026 - 4:10 PM
Description
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Pig kidneys that were “frozen” for a year have been brought back to life Pig kidneys that were cooled to -150 °C

The Download: faking blood and the future of batteries

Date
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - 4:10 PM
Description
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. The US military’s race to make fake blood In February 2007, a US military helicopter carrying blood to a field

The US military’s race to make fake blood

Date
Wednesday, October 14, 2026 - 1:00 PM
Description
Its call sign was Morphine 1-2.   In February 2007, the hulking dual-­rotor casualty evacuation helicopter had just flown three wounded soldiers to a field hospital in Balad, north of Baghdad, when another call came: an emergency mission to fly

The Download: open model trade-offs and geothermal power’s promise

Date
Tuesday, October 13, 2026 - 4:00 PM
Description
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Open models have real benefits. Do they outweigh the risks? Anthropic recently released a report arguing that a

The Download: moon city problems and drone traffic controllers

Date
Monday, October 12, 2026 - 4:10 PM
Description
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Mars may be a hellhole, but the moon is not far behind The US and China are racing to build bases on the moon

The ecologist revealing the invisible networks that revive rainforests

Date
Monday, October 12, 2026 - 1:00 PM
Description
In a research station in central Panama, you can walk through a century of forest time, watching scrubby plots of adolescent trees give way to cathedral-­like canopies of mature growth. Forest ecologist Daisy Dent, a senior scientist at ETH Zurich