Boston Dynamics spent years sending Atlas over boxes and through parkour courses with almost nothing on top that looked like a head. Hydraulic Atlas lived as a research machine built for flips, runs, and balance tests. Forward sensors were enough when the only job was reading the ground a few steps ahead.
SpaceX spent seven years looking for a stretch of Earth quiet enough, empty enough, and rich enough in natural gas to fly Starship the way airliners leave a busy airport. On Tuesday, August 25, company leaders and Louisiana officials said they found it on about 125,000 acres of Gulf marsh near Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish, a former Exxon property roughly 50 miles south of Lafayette and about 200 miles west of New Orleans. They are calling the place Starbase Louisiana.
Andrea Ricci wanted a language model to do more than answer questions. He wanted it to walk a corridor, notice a door, raise a shotgun, and live long enough to tell you what just tried to kill it. He put that test on a board small enough to sit in a palm, running the 1993 shooter that still gets ported to anything with a screen. Claude Sonnet is the marine, and a custom ESP32 module is the planet.
A weathered yellow breadbox just walked out of Gamescom looking like it survived a Watson shootout, and CD Projekt Red put its name on the badge. Commodore announced the Commodore 77 today, as the first special edition of its Commodore 64 Ultimate and the first franchise hardware partnership in the company’s 68-year history. Preorders opened at $377, and boxes are scheduled to ship in early 2027, a clean 50 years before the calendar on V’s phone.
Amazon still markets this little black dongle as a way to watch movies. That pitch misses half the point. Second-generation Fire TV Stick 4K Max is a $49.99 (was $85) HDMI stick that also runs Xbox Game Pass, Amazon Luna, and GeForce NOW, so a living room TV becomes a cloud console after you pair a Bluetooth controller.