Plus: TikTok won't be heading to court this week The first human test of a rejuvenation method will begin "shortly" Life Biosciences, a small Boston startup founded by Harvard professor and life-extension evangelist David Sinclair, has won FDA approval to proceed with the first targeted attempt at age reversal in human volunteers. The company plans to try to treat eye disease with a radical rejuvenation concept called "reprogramming" that has recently attracted hundreds of millions in investment for Silicon Valley firms like Altos Labs, New Limit, and Retro Biosciences, backed by many of the biggest names in tech. Today, an estimated 2.2 billion people still have either limited or no access to the internet, largely because they live in remote places. But that number could drop this year, thanks to tests of stratospheric airships, uncrewed aircraft, and other high-altitude platforms for internet delivery. Although Google shuttered its high-profile internet balloon project Loon in 2021, work on other kinds of high-altitude platform stations has continued behind the scenes. Now, several companies claim they have solved Loon's problems--and are getting ready to prove the tech's internet beaming potential starting this year.

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The government has launched a series of free AI training courses designed to help people learn how to use the technology at work. The online lessons give advice on things such as how to prompt chatbots or use them to assist with admin tasks. Many of the courses are free, with others subsidised, and the government aims to reach 10 million workers by 2030 - calling it the most ambitious training scheme since the launch of the Open University in 1971. But the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has warned workers will need to know more than just how to prompt a chatbot as the workforce adapts to the growth of AI. Skills for the age of AI can't be reduced to short technical courses alone, said Roa Powell, senior research fellow at the IPPR.

Trump calls Ilhan Omar a'fraud' and suggests she staged shock syringe attack during Minneapolis town hall: 'She probably had herself sprayed' Nicola Peltz is'getting a $1MILLION a month allowance from her father Nelson' as Brooklyn Beckham's billionaire in-laws take him under their wing Iran braces for possible US attack as Trump's'beautiful armada' arrives in Middle East amid claims regime has slaughtered 30,000 protesters America's damning verdict on who's to blame for Minneapolis mayhem between Trump and far-left protesters Melania's shock role in Trump's showdown with Kristi Noem revealed: MARK HALPERIN's fly-on-wall account of Oval Office meeting... and who is ACTUALLY taking the fall for Alex Pretti shooting I've seen possessed children scream like beasts and strung up like puppets... these chilling exorcism cases PROVE hell is real Sickening proof Kanye West's apology was fake: MAUREEN CALLAHAN reveals heinous new Nazi slur everyone missed... and revolting REAL reason he wrote groveling letter Trader Joe's reveals its best products of 2026 in grocery's own Oscars - and there's a surprise winner School principal accused of shoplifting from Walmart using'stacking' method at self-checkout Harper Beckham, 14, puts on a stylish display in a fluffy coat and vintage Chanel bag in Paris with her family - after Nicola Peltz's heartbreaking comments about sister-in-law I was barely eating but kept gaining weight. Then I discovered the'taboo' cancer doctors NEVER talk about. Now sex will never be the same... don't ignore these signs Lost tomb of the mysterious'cloud people' unearthed after 1,400 years in'discovery of the decade' She's All That star Rachael Leigh Cook was a 2000s icon... see her now Revealed: The outdated British slang terms for sex that have been consigned to history - with'how's your father' topping the list Is your sex lingo up-to-date, or are your go-to terms giving away your age? The answer may lie in how many of these slang words and phrases you're still using. A new survey by Perspectus Global has revealed the once-popular terms that have been consigned to history.

Trump calls Ilhan Omar a'fraud' and suggests she staged shock syringe attack during Minneapolis town hall: 'She probably had herself sprayed' Trader Joe's reveals its best products of 2026 in grocery's own Oscars - and there's a surprise winner America's damning verdict on who's to blame for Minneapolis mayhem between Trump and far-left protesters Melania's shock role in Trump's showdown with Kristi Noem revealed: MARK HALPERIN's fly-on-wall account of Oval Office meeting... and who is ACTUALLY taking the fall for Alex Pretti shooting I've seen possessed children scream like beasts and strung up like puppets... these chilling exorcism cases PROVE hell is real Sickening proof Kanye West's apology was fake: MAUREEN CALLAHAN reveals heinous new Nazi slur everyone missed... and revolting REAL reason he wrote groveling letter She's All That star Rachael Leigh Cook was a 2000s icon... see her now School principal accused of shoplifting from Walmart using'stacking' method at self-checkout Harper Beckham, 14, puts on a stylish display in a fluffy coat and vintage Chanel bag in Paris with her family - after Nicola Peltz's heartbreaking comments about sister-in-law I was barely eating but kept gaining weight. Then I discovered the'taboo' cancer doctors NEVER talk about. Now sex will never be the same... don't ignore these signs Lost tomb of the mysterious'cloud people' unearthed after 1,400 years in'discovery of the decade' LeBron James and Patrick Mahomes lead furious backlash over Bill Belichick's brutal Hall of Fame snub How popular is YOUR pet's name? Use our tool to find out - as chart reveals the most (and least!) common dog and cat names in Britain READ MORE: 'Genius' Border Collie Harvey is hailed'Britain's brightest dog' Britain's most popular names for cats and dogs have been revealed, as data shows that some names are at risk of extinction. Traditional names for our furry friends could become a thing of the past as new owners opt for names more often associated with humans.

Could Ukraine hold a presidential election right now? Will Europe use frozen Russian assets to fund war? How can Ukraine rebuild China ties? 'Ukraine is running out of men, money and time' A Russian air attack has killed two people in Kyiv region's Bilohorodska community, and a drone attack killed another person in central Ukraine's Dnipropetrovsk region, according to local authorities. The deadly attacks came overnight on Wednesday, just hours after a deadly drone attack on a commuter train in northeastern Ukraine's Kharkiv - an incident denounced as "terrorism" by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who put the number of people on that train at 200.

Could Ukraine hold a presidential election right now? Will Europe use frozen Russian assets to fund war? How can Ukraine rebuild China ties? 'Ukraine is running out of men, money and time' A Russian drone strike on a passenger train in Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv region has killed at least five people. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy denounced the attack as an act of terrorism.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has condemned as terrorism a Russian drone attack on a crowded passenger train that local officials say killed at least five people and injured several others. More than 200 people were on the train, officials said, when one of the carriages was hit by a drone and two other drones exploded nearby, in Ukraine's north-eastern Kharkiv region on Tuesday. Zelensky said 18 people were in the carriage at the time and there was no military justification in targeting civilians. Russia has not commented on the strike, but it has intensified drone and missile attacks on Ukraine's energy and transport infrastructure during the harshest winter in years. Elsewhere in Ukraine, the southern port city of Odesa was hit by dozens of drones and officials said three people were killed and dozens more wounded.

The world is closer than ever to destruction, scientists have said, as the Doomsday Clock was set at 85 seconds to midnight for 2026, the gloomiest assessment of humanity's prospects since the beginning of the tradition in 1947. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a not-for-profit organisation founded by Albert Einstein and other scientists, warned in its annual assessment on Tuesday that international cooperation is going backwards on nuclear weapons, climate change and biotechnology, while artificial intelligence poses new threats. "The Doomsday Clock's message cannot be clearer. Catastrophic risks are on the rise, cooperation is on the decline, and we are running out of time," said Alexandra Bell, the president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In a more detailed statement explaining the reasoning for moving the clock closer to midnight, the bulletin expressed concerns that countries including Russia, China, and the United States were becoming "increasingly aggressive, adversarial, and nationalistic".

SoftBank Group is in discussions to invest as much as $30 billion more in OpenAI, a sharp increase in commitment that reflects founder Masayoshi Son's ambitions to play a central role in developing artificial intelligence. The Japanese company, already one of the ChatGPT-maker's biggest backers, is in deliberations to commit more capital toward the fast-growing startup, people familiar with the matter said. The maximum amount SoftBank is considering is $30 billion, one of the people said, asking to remain anonymous to discuss private talks. They cautioned that the discussions are fluid and the amount of funding could change. SoftBank's shares rose 5.8% in Tokyo on Wednesday. Son has been unwinding positions to increase its stake in OpenAI and ready capital for sweeping investments aimed at injecting AI in all devices.