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Wordle Today: Wordle answer and hints for January 2

We have the solution to Wordle on January 2, as well as some helpful hints to help you figure out the answer yourself, right here. We’ve placed the answer at the bottom of the page, so we don’t ruin the surprise before you’ve had a chance to work through the clues. So let’s dive in, starting with a reminder of yesterday’s answer. Yesterday’s Wordle answer Let’s start by first reminding ourselves of yesterday’s Wordle answer for those new to the game or who don’t play it daily, which was “MURAL.” So we can say that…

Jennifer Love Hewitt: Ageing in Hollywood is hard

Actor Jennifer Love Hewitt, who is known for her work in films, including I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Can’t Hardly Wait (1998) and The Tuxedo (2002) among others, spoke about how she was sexualised as a teenager and the difficulties of ageing in Hollywood. Finding fame at such a young age came with its difficulties, and she opened up about her feelings while speaking on a podcast. “I felt watched. I felt like I had to be everything for everybody all the time. I was called sexy before I ever knew…

‘Cosmetic surgery? Just wear a hat!’ US sitcom legends Jane Curtin and Harriet Sansom Harris on AI, ageing and aliens | Film

Jane Curtin and Harriet Sansom Harris are best known in the UK for their roles in big 1990s sitcoms. Curtin was Mary Albright, sceptical professor and the object of John Lithgow’s affections in 3rd Rock from the Sun. Harris played Bebe Glazer, Frasier’s purringly machiavellian agent.In the US, both are comedy veterans. Curtin, now 76, began in the first seasons of Saturday Night Live, then won back-to-back Emmys for divorcee double act Kate & Allie. Harris, 68, has had stints on Desperate Housewives and Hacks, but…

One solution to an ageing population? AI workers

“We’re seeing productivity stagnate around the world due to ageing populations and other factors, and our AI workforce will create huge change in terms of what companies can deliver. Teams will only be limited by their ideas, not their size, and that’s our mission.”Relevance AI’s “no code” platform makes it easy for any business to build custom AI agents that can autonomously complete repetitive reasoning tasks, according to company co-founder Jackie Koh. There’s no coding knowledge required, Koh said, as AI “workers” are…

Eating fewer calories can ward off ageing

In terms of proving grand ecological truths the Biosphere 2 experiments were something of a bust. As an illustration of what can happen when somewhat fringe-y science meets extreme wealth they were fascinating. There were fierce fallings-out on both sides of the glass. In 1994 Ed Bass, an oil dynast who had paid for the facility, threw out the management team and handed the reins to Steve Bannon, later a key adviser to Donald Trump. At the same time, though, there was what some took to be a breakthrough in the…

Baumgartner by Paul Auster review – love, ageing and loss | Paul Auster

When Sy Baumgartner’s wife Anna, née Blume, dies, a decade before this whimsical, clever and at times frustrating novel opens, part of him dies too – though it takes him a quarter of the book to realise it.The two were married for nearly 40 years. Now Sy is 71 and about to retire from Princeton, where he teaches philosophy. We first meet him one morning while he is busy writing a monograph on Kierkegaard. Before the day ends he is interrupted by a series of freak accidents: he burns his hand on a pan he’s left on the…

A $3bn bet on finding the fountain of youth

Others have tried this in the past. In 2013 an outfit called Calico Life Sciences was set up under the aegis of Google (now Alphabet), with Larry Page, one of that firm’s founders, as an interested party. It has yet to generate a product. In the same year Craig Venter, who ran a private version of the human genome project, and Peter Diamandis, who started the X Prize Foundation, got together to launch Human Longevity, though they subsequently fell out. That company, too, has gone quiet. And there…

Hero, Bajaj are ageing motorcycle brands: Ola founder Bhavish Aggarwal

Ola Electric CEO Bhavish Aggarwal has gained attention for his criticism of conventional vehicles powered by internal combustion engines and his promotion of electric vehicles. Recently, he took a jab at Hero MotoCorp and Bajaj Auto, two major players in the Indian auto industry, for their collaborations with global brands Harley-Davidson and Triumph, respectively. In a tweet, Aggarwal indirectly questioned the decision of Hero MotoCorp and Bajaj Auto to partner with Harley-Davidson and Triumph, respectively, to…

“In My 60s, I’m All About Battling Ageing…”

Sex And The City Star Kim Cattrall Promotes Fillers, Botox & More To Prevent Ageing ( Photo Credit – Wikimedia ) Actress Kim Cattrall is taking care of herself with cosmetic treatments. The former ‘Sex and the City’ star confessed that due to her being in her “60s now,” she maintains looking “a certain kind of way” via enhancements like injections and filler, reports aceshowbiz.com. “I’m in my 60s now, and I’m all about battling aging in every way I can. I play a certain kind of woman who looks a certain kind of…