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One example of togetherness: a Chicanukah party hosted Thursday evening by several Jewish organizations in Houston, bringing together members of the city’s Latino and Jewish communities for a “cross cultural holiday celebration." The venue: Houston’s Holocaust museum. The food on offer was a blend of the two cultures — for example a latke bar featuring guacamole, chili con queso and pico de gallo, as well as applesauce and sour cream. The doughnut-like pastries were sufganiyot — a Hanukkah specialty — and buñuelos, And the mariachi band took a crack at playing the Jewish folk song “Hava Nagila.”

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.SAN FRANCISCO—Months before his arrest for allegedly attempting to murder the chief executive of OpenAI, Daniel Moreno-Gama suggested “Luigi’ing some tech CEOs” in an internet chat.The Texas college student casually referenced Luigi Mangione, the accused UnitedHealthcare CEO killer, during an online conversation with producers of “The Last Invention” podcast, according to screenshots shared with The Wall Street Journal. They wanted to interview him for a series on artificial intelligence.In January, Moreno-Gama recorded the interview, detailing his path from curious internet nerd to a crusader obsessed with AI’s dangers.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. MIDLAND COUNTY, Texas—Perched in the control room of a Chevron rig, an operator steered a drilling bit thousands of feet under the arid surface of the Permian Basin. As he did so, he received real-time directions from a specialist in Houston, some 477 miles away.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. India's 21-year tax holiday for foreign cloud providers, announced by Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her latest budget, has fuelled optimism across the technology sector. Politicians, industry executives, and analysts expect a surge in data-centre investments and employment.

Jeremy Clarkson has taken aim at Tesla CEO Elon Musk. The Top Gear host had just one word to say on the problems Tesla has been facing recently. Clarkson called Elon Musk an «idiot» and attributed the backlash against Tesla as «payback.» In 2008, Clarkson gave a harsh evaluation of the Tesla Roadster on BBC’s Top Gear viewers, starting a feud with Elon Musk. A BBC segment depicted the vehicle experiencing brake issues at 55 miles. The review led Elon Musk to file a lawsuit against the BBC. The legal proceedings did not change Clarkson's point of view regarding the vehicle.

Hamas ties. The detention of Badar Khan Suri, a postdoctoral fellow at Georgetown University in the US capital, came as fears mount in the academic world that freedom of research and speech is being challenged two months into US President Donald Trump's new term. Suri's lawyer demanded his release and denounced the arrest as a «targeted, retaliatory detention» that was intended «to silence, or at the very least restrict and chill, his speech» as well as that of others who «express support for Palestinian rights.» Early Thursday evening Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles of the Eastern District of Virginia Court ordered Suri «shall not be removed from the United States unless and until the court issues a contrary order.» The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), which has also filed an emergency motion to stop the deportation, said Suri was being held at an immigration detention center in Louisiana.

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Tap here to watch the splashdown!Sunita Williams is an Indian-American NASA astronaut with a history of record and achievements.Sunita Williams launched into space, along with Butch Wilmore, on a Boing Starliner spacecraft on June 5, 2024. It was Starliner’s first crewed flight.

Sunita Williams returned to Earth after being stranded at the International Space Station for nine months, her cousin Dinesh Rawal on Wednesday said that the NASA astronaut will change the world as she is not an ordinary person. «When she returned, we jumped with joy… I was so happy… Till yesterday, I had an unsettling feeling deep in my heart… God has listened to our prayers and brought our Suni back safely… Sunita is not an ordinary person… She will change the world,» Dinesh Rawal told ANI. Earlier, NASA Crew-9 astronauts breathed earthly air for the first time in over nine months following the successful splashdown of SpaceX's Dragon capsule. The astronauts disembarked the capsule on stretchers, as is customary, CNN reported. This precaution is taken by SpaceX for all astronauts returning from long-duration space missions. Delays caused by issues with Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which surfaced during a test flight piloted by Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams last summer, led to the astronaut duo remaining in space for nine months instead of a week, CNN reported. NASA's SpaceX Crew-9 completed the agency's ninth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station on Tuesday, splashing down safely in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, in the Gulf of America, according to a NASA statement.

NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, celebrated her safe return to Earth on Wednesday by performing aarti and offering prayers after she spent nearly nine months in space. The celebrations began after the successful splashdown of the Dragon spacecraft, which brought Williams back to Earth along with Crew-9 members Butch Wilmore, Nick Hague, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov. Earlier, the NASA astronaut's cousin, Dinesh Rawal, organized a 'Yagna' in Ahmedabad on Tuesday to pray for her safe return. SpaceX confirmed the splashdown, and NASA astronaut Nick Hague shared that the crew was «grinning ear to ear» after their safe return. Following the landing, NASA astronaut Nick Hague delivered his first message to mission control. While the audio was somewhat unclear, Hague could be heard saying that the crew was «grinning ear to ear,» CNN reported.

Crew-10 mission to the International Space Station (ISS) to bring home NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been stranded in space since last June. Just over a day after blasting off, a SpaceX crew capsule arrived at the International Space Station on Sunday, delivering the replacements for NASA’s two stuck astronauts. The SpaceX Crew-10 members joined the station's Expedition 72 crew after the hatch opened at 12:35am ET on Sunday beginning a long-duration space research mission. SpaceX’s Crew-10 mission successfully docked at the International Space Station on Sunday morning, setting the stage to finally retrieve the two NASA astronauts who have been stuck in orbit for months. The Space-X space capsule docked at the ISS at 12:05 a.m. EST Sunday morning after lifting off Friday from Florida. Video feed showing Crew-10’s dramatic docking onto the ISS was shared live on X. ALSO READ: Sunita Williams' homecoming: SpaceX Crew Dragon opens hatch with ISS to reach stranded astronauts

Alberta’s proven natural gas reserves have increased nearly sixfold to 130 trillion cubic feet since they were last assessed, according to a new study, giving Canada’s oilpatch leaders something to show off this week at a Texas oil summit in hopes of turning heads and capital flows northward.

Net profit for October-December for Apple's top iPhone assembler and Nvidia's AI server maker came in at T$46.33 billion ($1.41 billion), missing analysts' average forecast of T$54.4 billion, according to an LSEG consensus estimate of 15 analysts. Foxconn said in January its fourth-quarter revenue jumped 15.2% to a record for that quarter on strong sales of AI servers.

artificial intelligence servers. Net profit for October-December for Apple's top iPhone assembler and Nvidia's AI server maker likely came in at T$54.4 billion ($1.65 billion), according to an LSEG consensus estimate of 15 analysts, versus T$53.15 billion a year earlier. Foxconn said in January its fourth-quarter revenue jumped 15.2% to a record for that quarter on strong sales of AI servers.

While the consumption of «green beer» and several popular Irish beverages is one of the most common traditions associated with the festival, there's no harm in throwing a bucket of fried chicken and some great sporting fixtures in the mix.

Cybercriminals have registered more than 10,000 malicious domains to fuel these scams, which impersonate unpaid toll bills or missed delivery notifications. Victims receive urgent texts claiming they owe payments, complete with links to fake websites designed to steal credit card details, bank information, and personal data for identity theft.

TechnipFMC plc to accelerate the delivery of integrated subsea infrastructure for future deepwater projects in India. «The collaboration will leverage TechnipFMC's integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation execution model, driving efficiency and innovation in execution,» the company said in a statement. This alliance will help Cairn advance its deepwater exploration ambitions, tapping into TechnipFMC's extensive expertise and cutting-edge technologies. «The agreement also incorporates the use of integrated front-end engineering and design, where early engagement optimizes project performance utilizing TechnipFMC's subsea production systems (SPS) and subsea umbilicals, risers, and flowlines (SURF) work scopes,» it said.

Cincinnati Bearcats will be taking on the 12th-seeded Oklahoma State Cowboys in the first round of the 2025 Big 12 Tournament on Tuesday afternoon. The two teams met just days ago in the regular-season finale. Oklahoma State took home a 78-67 win in the final game. But Cincinnati came into the tournament as 7.5-point favourites, seeking to snap a three-game losing streak. The tip-off is scheduled for 12.30 pm ET (5.30 pm GMT) at the T-Mobile Centre in Kansas City, Missouri. The victor of this match-up will advance to play 5-seed Iowa State in the second round on Wednesday, according to the CBS Sports report.

Al Green, a Democrat from Texas, was removed from the House of Representatives chamber on Tuesday night after repeatedly heckling President Donald Trump during his speech to a joint session of Congress. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, ordered Green's removal after multiple warnings.

March Madness, is all set to begin in a few weeks from now. It will kickstart with Selection Sunday on March 16, which will be followed by the First Four games, to be held on March 18-19 at Dayton's UD Arena in Ohio, Fox Sports reported.

Apple has fixed a bug in the iPhone’s dictation feature that mistakenly transcribed the word 'racist' as 'Trump'. The issue gained attention on social media, prompting Apple to release a fix.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. iPhone boxes carry a stamp saying they are designed by Apple in California. Smaller print makes clear one of America’s biggest manufacturing successes is mostly imported from China, where millions of people working for overseas contractors assemble the phones.