{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Tech Pulse","title":"Tech Pulse 4/13/26","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/c40eebd6\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1373,"description":"This week on Tech Pulse, we narrate three articles spanning assistive technology, battery science, and analog parenting.A blind ultramarathoner takes on the NYC Half Marathon with AI-powered glasses that describe the world around him in real time — attempting to hand off some of a guide runner's duties to technology. What the experiment reveals about AI's limits is as interesting as what it gets right.A Finnish startup claims to have cracked the solid-state battery, the field's long-sought holy grail. The piece weighs the test data against what remains unverified, and surveys a global race increasingly dominated by one country.Families fed up with smartphones are handing their kids landlines instead. The results are equal parts charming and chaotic — and the piece quietly asks how long nostalgia can hold before the pull of screens wins anyway.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/3mkcubSNT2wAgaol_J3B1Qcu-KJq2wq9H_vJHf1ZAs0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84NmYx/YzM3ODA1NmY5Yjk5/OGE4NDNhOTNlNDhl/MGQ5ZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}