How to watch the Opening Ceremony at the 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics rebroadcast tonight

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A general view of the Olympic Rings during the opening ceremony of the Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games at the San Siro stadium in Milan, northern Italy, on February 6, 2026. (Photo by Gabriel BOUYS / AFP via Getty Images)
The Opening Ceremony for the 2026 Winter Games will re-air tonight on NBC. (Gabriel BOUYS / AFP via Getty Images)
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The 2026 Milan Cortina Winter Olympics Opening Ceremony has concluded. The festivities featured performances from Mariah Carey and Andrea Bocelli, 3,000 athletes walking in the Parade of Nations, and not one but two Olympic cauldrons

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Lasers, jammer guns, and mobile turrets at Asia's biggest aviation event show how the counter-drone craze is taking hold

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A quadcopter is seen mounted on an open box.
The Iron Drone Raider by ONDAS at the Singapore Airshow.

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  • Singapore hosted its biennial airshow in early February, one of Asia's biggest defense events.
  • The six-day event was filled with almost every kind of imaginable counter-drone tech.
  • It's a sign of just how concerned the world's militaries are becoming about the power of the UAV.

This year's Singapore Airshow was a true

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Saab is looking to arm its Gripen fighter jets with a proven drone-killing rocket after studying the Ukraine war

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Saab JAS-39C Gripen flies during an airshow.
Saab is looking at adding the APKWS as a weapons option for the Gripen C, pictured here, and Gripen E.

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  • Saab, which makes the JAS 39 Gripen, might soon add the APKWS to the fighter's weapons options.
  • Company executives told Business Insider they realized they needed cheaper weapons to fight drones.
  • The 70mm guided rocket system is already being used in and outside Ukraine to
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The Crypto.com guy bought AI.com (and a Super Bowl ad)

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Kris Marszalek, CEO and co-founder of crypto and stock trading platform Crypto.com, has bought an expensive website. In this case it's AI.com, valued at one point at $100 million, which will serve as the online home for his new company of the same name. The website launch is being paired with a Super Bowl ad that will air this Sunday.

AI.com's main offering is an AI agent that "operates on the user

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We found 20 Verge-approved gifts on sale ahead of Valentine’s Day

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The Aura Aspen
Digital photo frames like the Aura Aspen are down to some of their best prices.
Digital photo frames like the Aura Aspen are down to some of their best prices.

Valentine’s Day is coming up fast, and if you haven’t started shopping yet, there are a lot of great gifts on sale that should still arrive in time if you order soon. Several Verge-approved gadgets are seeing some of their best discounts since the holidays, with options we think will appeal to a wide range of

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Apple will reportedly allow third-party AI assistants in CarPlay

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Apple plans to allow third-party voice-controlled AI apps in CarPlay, Bloomberg reports. Siri is the default voice assistant for things like controlling music and looking up directions, but future AI apps in CarPlay could handle the complicated, open-ended requests Siri can't answer.

The expanded support would let developers like OpenAI or Google offer versions of their ChatGPT and Gemini apps for

Apple might let you use ChatGPT from CarPlay

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Apple’s CarPlay concept, showing a badge that reads “First models arrive in 2024.”

CarPlay users could soon be able to use their chatbot of choice instead of Siri. As Bloomberg reports, Apple is working to add support for CarPlay voice control apps from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and others. Previously, users who wanted to access third-party chatbots in the car would need to go through their iPhone, but soon they may be able to talk with ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini