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Spotify is rolling out more social features to keep people on the platform. It's adding a new tool to its messaging platform that lets users see what their friends and family members are listening to in real time.

Once activated, a user's listening activity will be displayed at the top of the chat. The other person in the chat can tap the bar to play a particular track, save it or react with an

I know IKEA is all about small, efficient spaces, but their meeting room inside the Venetian during the company’s first-ever CES was the same size as my (not large) living room. Plenty of people were as excited as I was to see what the Swedish designers brought with them to the show and the room was thick with humans. A bowl full of BELÖNING bars helped ease my mounting claustrophobia and I was

• Wix announced an office return for staff in Israel, Poland, and Lithuania, starting February 1.
• US employees will continue to be hybrid, the company told Business Insider.
• Wix's president cited collaboration and innovation as reasons for the return-to-office decision.

Wix is asking employees in three countries to come back to

CES 2026 has been full of big announcements — advances in the chips that power AI, major product launches, and more — but the Vegas tech convention is also known as a haven for weird tech.

We here at Mashable are lovers of weird tech and odd gadgets, and, thankfully, CES 2026 has not disappointed thus far. We've got folks on the ground in Vegas scoping out everything odd on the showroom floor —

• I made Ina Garten's chicken pot pie soup, which was inspired by a dish she saw at an airport restaurant.
• The soup features peas, carrots, leeks, fennel, pearl onions, and homemade puff pastry croutons. 
• Garten's comforting chicken pot pie soup is one of the best soups I've made this winter.

Winter is

Samsung says AI data center-fueled RAM scarcity could raise the company's prices. Wonjin Lee, Samsung's global marketing leader, sounded the alarm in an interview with Bloomberg on Tuesday at CES 2026. As recently as early December, Samsung told Reuters that it was monitoring the market but wouldn't comment on pricing. So, the change of tune can be seen as a deliberate signal to soften the ground

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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