Churchill Downs Incorporated has asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to order an independent review of the Horseracing Integrity and Safety Authority, escalating scrutiny of the regulator days before HISA provisionally suspended trainer Angel Quiroz over a series of alleged medication and horse-welfare violations. In an August 28 letter... Read more

Despite 1.3 million women entering menopause each year, this stage in a woman’s life remains stigmatized and understudied. But a rise in femtech centered on menopause could help change that. In June, Apple announced that its Health app now supports cycle tracking for both menopause — when a woman’s menstrual period... Read more

Sony is one of the most reliable electronics brands we’ve tested, and its track record extends across a range of categories. That’s why when any of its products go on sale, we take notice. Right now, a few of Sony’s headphones, including the premium Sony WH-1000XM5, are steeply discounted,... Read more

It’s only the first day of September 2026, but the month and fall season are already off to the races in AI land, as Anthropic has just released its latest and most powerful large language models yet — Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1. The two names refer... Read more

Dell seemingly isn’t content with taking on Apple’s MacBook Neo with just the XPS 13 for student dollars and attention. On Wednesday the company brought in budget laptop reinforcements with new lower-end, more colorful versions of its mainstream Dell 14S laptop. Dell is playing coy and won’t reveal pricing until... Read more

The proximity to the waning moon offers a good opportunity for spotting them. To the naked eye, they will appear as a small group of bright points next to the moon, as if they were diamonds. Binoculars will allow you to make out many more. The encounter will happen... Read more

Egiziago Cioffi is the IT and Enterprise Architect and CEO of SynSphere Italia, a Microsoft partner based in Milan. He built an agent himself. He wrote the indexing job, configured the Azure OpenAI retrieval pipeline, connected it to SharePoint, and watched it pass every evaluation his team ran. His... Read more

The Ninth Circuit has called Kalshi’s contracts what its advertising already did: sports betting.  Kalshi’s marketing department wrote the opening line of its own legal defeat. “KalshiEX, LLC advertises itself as ‘the first app for legal sports betting in all 50 states’,” Judge Ryan Nelson wrote in the first... Read more

A group of executives and entrepreneurs led by Starcloud co-founders Philip Johnston, Adi Oltean and Ezra Feilden teamed up to develop humanity’s first interstellar spacecraft. If everything goes according to plan, it will launch in 2029, headed for Alpha Centauri, the closest star system to our solar system. But... Read more

It feels like we have been waiting an age for the Range Rover Electric. First announced back in December 2023, JLR’s luxury EV SUV was meant to hit the road in 2024, but extended development testing forced the carmaker to push its arrival back. Now it’s finally here—one of... Read more