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WASHINGTON — Raytheon Co. of Waltham, Mass., has agreed to purchase defense and homeland security company BBN Technologies, according to a Sept. 1 Raytheon press release. BBN Technologies, a private company headquartered in Cambridge, Mass., employs 700 people at seven locations around the United States, the release said. The company specializes in advanced networking and information technologies, sensor systems and cyber security, and it will become part of Raytheon’s Network Centric Systems division based in McKinney, Texas.

At least nine people were killed, including the gunman, and seven others injured in the wake of an afternoon shooting at an outlet mall in a Dallas suburb on Saturday, police said. An officer from the Allen Police Department heard gunshots at Allen Premium Outlets at 3:36 p.m. while out on an unrelated call. He then located and "neutralized" the shooter, said Brian Harvey, the police chief for the Allen Police Department, during a Saturday night press conference.

CNN  —  Artificial intelligence leader OpenAI introduced a new AI model called Sora which it claims can create “realistic” and “imaginative” 60-second videos from quick text prompts. In a blog post on Wednesday, the company said Sora is capable of generating videos up to 60 seconds in length from text instructions, with the ability to serve up scenes with multiple characters, specific types of motion, and detailed background details.

Live sports is one of the biggest reasons to use YouTube TV, and the service made it even better late last year with the introduction of an option to reduce the broadcast delay for a limited amount of time. Now, that option can be enabled permanently. In YouTube TV’s playback settings, users can adjust the broadcast delay between the “default” setting and “decrease.” That second option first showed up in December 2023 and appears under the three dots overflow menu when streaming a channel live.

One of the top musicians from India, AR Rahman spoke his mind on the selection of movies that are being sent to the Oscars. The Indian film industry is on cloud nine with Rajamouli’s RRR’s Naatu Naatu and Guneet Monga’s The Elephant Whisperers bringing Oscars home. AR Raham, a winner of the Grammy Award and Academy Award spoke about his own winning experience and also opened up about the kind of films that go from India as its official entry into the Oscars.

William Henry "Hank" Green II (born May 5, 1980) is an American video blogger, internet producer, musician, author, and entrepreneur. He is known for producing the YouTube channel Vlogbrothers, where he and his older brother, John Green, regularly upload videos, as well as for creating and hosting the educational YouTube channels Crash Course and SciShow. Green co-created VidCon, the world's largest conference about online videos, with his brother John, and created NerdCon: Stories, a conference focused on storytelling.

Megastar Chiranjeevi has come up with this new idea of roping in different stars for his upcoming films. While he has teamed up with Salman Khan for a sequence in “Godfather”, and with Ram Charan for ‘Ammadu Kummud’ song in Khaidi No 150; he has similarly got Massraja Raviteja for a short role in the upcoming “Waltair Veerayya”. And now, both Chiru and Raviteja are going to give the ‘Thaar Maar Thakkarmar’ moment that Chiru-Salman already gave us.

RIVERTON, Utah — A Riverton community is mourning the loss of a dear neighbor, friend, and a senior missionary killed in a tragic accident. Sister Marina Carver, 59, who everyone knew as Rina, died on her birthday while serving a mission on a small South Pacific Island for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She and her husband were hit head-on by a car that veered into their lane, according to the Church.

Graham Chase Robinson Wikipedia, Ethnicity, Biography, Age, Career: Graham Chase Robinson is a former personal assistant to “Raging Bull” star Robert De Niro. Chase, who used to be De Niro’s right-hand man, is said to have committed a theft using the actor’s business credit card. It’s a story of excess on the company’s cash, with reported costly shopping sprees and even a mega-mileage makeover, in which millions of Canal’s frequent-flier miles were converted into her treasure trove.