I’ve been going to my friend’s lake house for more than two decades. Every year, my three closest friends from high school and I meet at the lake house for a long weekend, and when we started having children, we brought them along, too. It’s really meaningful to induct the next generation into something that […]

Google got a head start in the artificial intelligence race, and at the DealBook Summit on Dec. 4, its chief executive, Sundar Pichai, snapped back at suggestions that it should be more competitive considering its vast resources. Whereas A.I. startups rely on tech giants for processing power, Google uses its own. The company’s products, like […]

AKRON, Ohio — Before the November presidential election, Ohio’s secretary of state and attorney general announced investigations into potential voter fraud that included people suspected of casting ballots even though they were not U.S. citizens. It coincided with a warning that potentially thousands of would be voting. “The right to vote is sacred,” Attorney General […]

If you ask me, I think a gaming icon like Warren Spector deserves the benefit of the doubt! Deus Ex, Epic Mickey, producer of multiple titles across the Ultima series — behind the likes of BioShock inspiration, System Shock. Hell, the guy was the Director of the stealth-focused Thief: Deadly Shadows back when Thief wasn’t […]

Armed groups from two factions clashed around a key oil refinery in western on Sunday, causing fires to break out in several storage units and forcing a suspension of operations at the facility. Libya’s National Oil Corporation (NOC) declared a state of “force majeure” amid the incident, which exempts it from having to fulfill oil delivery contracts […]

A man from Northern Ireland who was arrested after posting a negative review about his former employer in Dubai looks set to spend Christmas in the United Arab Emirates after he was given a February court date, the BBC reported. Craig Ballentine, a Northern Ireland holidaymaker, was arrested in Abu Dhabi airport in October over […]

Five members of the Australian “Bali Nine” drug ring have returned from Indonesia after 19 years in jail following diplomatic efforts between the two countries this month to strike a repatriation deal. The men, who flew home on Sunday, were among nine people arrested in 2005 trying to smuggle more than 8kg of heroin out […]

The United States administration has been in “direct contact” with Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the militant group that toppled Bashar Assad’s regime in Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. “We’ve been in contact with HTS and with other parties,” Blinken told reporters in Jordan on Saturday. Western capitals have been debating how to engage […]

A couple from Alaska skated through a “drowned forest” and it looked mezmerizing, wowing internet users. Luc Mehl, 46, shared a clip of his wife Hannah skating through the forest, which is partially under water due to an earthquake in 1964. Having frozen over due to cold temperatures, the lake with its trees sticking up […]

At the age of 85, Ikuko Arai on November 30. She says she is happy to step back from her role at a non-profit organization in the capital Tokyo, but she is also more than a little worried. Arai lives alone since her husband died 16 years ago, and she fears that stopping work is […]