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• I've visited Napa Valley, California, several times, but find myself returning to Sonoma County.
• The landscape is diverse, with vineyards, redwood forests, rivers, and beaches.
• In my opinion, the region is more laid-back than Napa, and there's room to be spontaneous.

I've visited California wine country several times over

When it comes to the fun parts of CES, robotics are rarely boring and are sometimes silly or surprising as well.

That's not to say they aren't useful, of course. But CES isn't necessarily a showcase of purely utilitarian factory floor robots. These are often meant to (eventually, someday) live in people's homes, which means they're often humanized or otherwise given characteristics that make them

I’m fascinated by AI cooking robots which, as far as I’m concerned, automate the one fun bit of cooking. Sadly, it’s far easier to make something that can stir a pan of ingredients as they cook compared to building something that would successfully peel a carrot. Nosh is the latest unit to use CES to announce itself to the world, gearing up for its launch in the next few months. Like its many

• YouTube star MrBeast said AirPods are his No. 1 essential item in a recent GQ interview.
• He color-coded his AirPods for different times of day.
• His list of 10 essentials also includes money for giveaways.

MrBeast is seriously attached to his AirPods.

So much so that they were the No. 1 essential item on his list of the 10 things he

• Kalshi CEO Tarek Mansour is backing a new bill to bar insider trading on prediction markets.
• The bill comes after someone made over $400,000 on a well-timed bet on Nicolás Maduro's future on Polymarket.
• Mansour also stressed the difference between regulated and unregulated prediction markets.

The head of a major

OpenAI is quietly testing its advertising future as it heads into 2026, according to insiders who have heard of revived plans to pilot sponsored content in ChatGPT.

The new rumors stem from comments reportedly made by OpenAI's CEO of applications Fidji Simo, who recently published a breakdown of OpenAI's R&D goals in a post on Substack. Offline, sources say Simo mentioned an additional plan to

When I was in a band, performing on stage in front of hundreds of people fundamentally changed my relationship with music. It turned it into work. Instead of getting lost in the experience of a concert, I got hung up on the mechanics of playing the music and putting on a show. I lost the excitement a little bit. 

Today, I review phones. I have reviewed every flagship phone launched in the U.S. for

• Venezuela, home to the world's largest oil reserves, was once among the world's richest nations.
• Years of economic collapse drove one of the largest mass migrations in recent history.
• Now, the US has signaled that American oil firms could help revive Venezuela's oil production.

Half a century ago, V