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Apple Health brings sleep tracking, scheduling and long-term analysis into one place, with your iPhone acting as the hub and the Apple Watch doing the overnight monitoring. Once everything is set up, Apple Health can show how long you slept each night, how consistent your sleep schedule is and how much time you spend in different sleep stages. Here is how to get started, track your sleep and review your data.Sleep tracking in Apple Health relies on two things: You need to set up Sleep in the Health app on your iPhone, and you need a compatible Apple Watch to…

Volkswagen is one of three automakers expected to advertise during the Super Bowl in 2026.Courtesy VWDETROIT — Automakers are largely sitting on the advertising sidelines during this year’s Super Bowl amid uncertainty in the U.S. automotive industry involving sales, tariffs and regulations.Carmakers — historically major buyers of ads during the big game — have been inconsistent with advertising during the Super Bowl in recent years, with only a handful putting out spots each year.”It’s definitely been on the decline,” said Sean Muller, CEO of ad data company iSpot. “Autos are tightening their belts, and they’re probably pulling back on their…

Even over Zoom, with a shaky internet connection, Mikaela Shiffrin—the winningest alpine skier of all time, male or female—is effervescent.She’s in Austria, I’m in New York, and we’re talking about her stellar season building up to the Milano Cortina Winter Games, where she will be competing in three events. Before the Olympics’ opening ceremonies, her career total wins had reached 108, with her most recent arriving just two weeks prior, in Špindlerův Mlýn, the Czech Republic. Her closest competitor? The retired Swede Ingemar Stenmark, with 86.The Colorado native, now 30, participated in her first Games in 2014. Those were held…

Last September, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and President Donald Trump made a big announcement: The federal government had supposedly uncovered a clear link between autism and mothers taking acetaminophen (Tylenol) during their pregnancy. The proclamation was swiftly lambasted by scientists outside the administration, yet it’s only one facet of the Trump administration’s concerning new approach to autism. That same day, RFK Jr. stated the Food and Drug Administration would soon approve a new treatment for autism, a form of folate (vitamin B9) known as leucovorin. As with the acetaminophen link, however, the evidence supporting the use of leucovorin…

Getty Images The 2026 Olympic Games are officially underway. The Milan Cortina Games run through Sunday, Feb. 22.The games are an exciting time for sports fans around the world, seeing some of the best athletes compete and getting exposure to sports we don’t always see broadcasted on television.Fans can find the action on NBC and their streaming service Peacock, with an account or a cable login. The Winter Games have eight main sports, with 16 disciplines. With so many events to keep up with, it can get overwhelming, but that’s where we step in.Winter Olympics schedule for Saturday, Feb. 7SportEventTimeMedal…

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 115, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you’re new here, welcome, go Seahawks I guess, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.)This week, I’ve been reading about The Washington Post and the Murdochs and Polymarket and whatever a “Soho House for creators” is, watching Independence Day for the first time and Jurassic Park for roughly the 50th, bailing on everything for the next few weeks so I can watch the Olympics full-time, loving the timeline-task-manager look of Paso, learning more about Furby…

We’re starting to hit our stride in 2026. Now that February is here, our reviews team is flush with new devices to test, which means you’ve got a lot to catch up on if you haven’t been following along. Read on for a roundup of the most compelling new gear we’ve tested recently from gaming, PCs, cameras and more.Nex PlaygroundNexThe Nex Playground brings motion-tracked games to the entire family. Consider it the best of the Xbox Kinect in a tiny box.ProsFun core titlesSolid motion-trackingWell-designed hardware and UILarge library of gamesWorks offlineConsRequires an ongoing subscription to access most gamesNeeds large open…

Lionel Messi’s boyhood club, Newell’s Old Boys, hit the headlines this week when their vice president went public with his plans to lure the eight-time Ballon d’Or winner back to his old stomping ground in 2027.After first signing for the club in his hometown of Rosario, Argentina, aged six, Messi spent his formative years in their youth ranks before being scouted by Barcelona and swiftly transforming into one of the game’s greatest-ever players.Messi is 38 now and starring for MLS side Inter Miami. Still, it hasn’t stopped Newell’s dreaming of a fairytale return.To be fair to Newell’s, there is precedent.…

During the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, 5G and 4K were the leading technologies available to many viewers. There was some AI, but it was mostly used for athletes’ benefit. For the 2026 Milano Cortina Winter Games there will be more technology than ever, for both athletes and fans.Much of that technology has never been used at the Games before, says Yiannis Exarchos, the managing director of Olympic Broadcasting Services and executive director of Olympic Channel Services. The two organizations are responsible for producing much of the television, radio, and digital coverage, and content on Olympics.com. “In Milano Cortina, people…

The NFL plans to hold talks with non-traditional media companies to potentially sell them the rights to a live game, NFL Media chief Hans Schroeder told CNBC Sport on Friday.”We have other people that are both partners in a smaller sense — maybe not a full package — or people that still are in the media landscape somewhere that would like to be an NFL live game partner,” Schroeder said in an interview from Radio Row ahead of Super Bowl LX in San Francisco. “We’re going to have those conversations,” he added. “We want to understand all our options and…