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Jensen Huang's admitted affair and the espionage questions now facing Nvidia
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Wednesday, November 11, 2026
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Jensen Huang, the man behind the leather jacket, and the price of trust
From a lonely childhood in Kentucky to the creation of the world's most valuable chipmaker, Jensen Huang has built his life on determination and personal relationships. An admitted affair and allegations of Chinese espionage have now placed both under scrutiny.
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After the Aurora temple plot: what older immigrant communities can teach Indian Americans
After a foiled shooting at the Aurora Balaji temple and another season of jewellery burglaries, a look at how the Irish, Chinese, Italian, Japanese and Jewish communities learned to organize, what Sikh Americans have already built, and what the wider Indian American community can borrow.
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A Juneau bear climbed into a Subaru and could not get out
A black bear let itself into an unlocked Subaru in Juneau, Alaska, on October 26, and the door apparently slammed shut. Police freed it with a rope. The car's interior did not survive.
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Health & Spirituality
Heart checks should begin near a girl's first period, American Heart Association says
Four US medical societies want heart-risk assessment to start around ages 8 to 15 and to follow women through pregnancy and menopause. Pregnancy warning signs that are more common in South Asian women are part of the new framework.
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Fremont neighbours complain of Hindu temple noise. Other suburbs have been here before
Neighbours of a Fremont temple filed more than 25 complaints in a year. The temple says it follows the rules. From Edison to Frisco to Mississauga, other suburbs have argued over temples, festivals and fireworks.
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Blackstone opens its first capability centre outside the US, in Bengaluru
The New York investment firm's second Indian office will handle finance, technology, legal and compliance work for its global business. It joins 2,117 such centres already operating in India.
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The Small Skills We Give Away
Isaac Asimov wrote a short story in 1958 in which a man who could multiply became a genius. Is it possible that soon normal human skills will be extraordinary?
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The Strange Power of Holding Two Opposing Truths
What a physicist's discovery about light and a psychologist's struggle with suffering reveal about the possibility of change.
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Culture
Fires behind a Paris café table, and France's long terrasse tradition
A Reuters clip of a couple at a café table near the Arc de Triomphe, with fires burning behind them, went around the world this week. The Paris terrasse has sat beside unrest before, in 1968, in 2015 and in the yellow-vest years.
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Why French students are marching, and what Paris's unrest means for Indians
A month of lycée blockades over missing teachers and crumbling schools spilled into nationwide marches on October 17. What students want, what the government has said, what comes next, and what Indian students and travellers in France should check now.
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Dussehra on four plates: what Bengal, Jharkhand, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu cook
Sonia Sharma follows the festival's last day through Kolkata, Jamshedpur, Ahmedabad and Chennai, with the trade routes behind the food and two home recipes you will not find in a sweet shop.
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Does October Actually Make Us Safer?
Does Cybersecurity Awareness Month make us safer? The research is mixed — October drills produce completion reports, while continuous training cuts phishing.
· 11 min read
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A Therapist Tried AI Therapy on Himself. It Worked. He's Still Warning You.
A therapist tried AI therapy on himself after an assault and wrote about it in The Free Press. What the trials show, what can go wrong, and what it means
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The 3:00 AM Awakening: Why Your Nervous System Surges in the Quiet of Night
Waking at 3 a.m. with a racing mind? Cortisol's early-morning rise and lighter second-half sleep explain most of it — the liver-glycogen story is only a
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Health & Spirituality
Vamkukshi: What Ayurveda and Modern Science Actually Say About Sleeping on Your Left Side
Ayurveda's vamkukshi advises resting on the left side after meals. Modern reflux studies back the left-side habit, but the heart and lymph claims don't hold up.
· 4 min read
Health & Spirituality
Yoga Diplomacy: How India Exports Wellness to the World
From ashrams to Instagram: how yoga became India's most successful cultural export, what was gained in translation, and who captures the value.
· 4 min read
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Water Crisis: Cities Running Dry Across India
Groundwater falling a meter a year, 30-40% of treated water leaking from pipes. India's urban water crisis is already here — not a future warning.
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