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.
Inside a 60-foot steel sphere at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, a team has begun a new series of tests that look simple on paper and get complicated fast. They fire scaled rocket exhaust into a shallow bin of jagged gray powder that stands in for lunar soil. Each run lasts about six seconds. Cameras and sensors record crater shape, how high and wide the flying sheet of dirt rises, where the particles land, and how fast they travel. That data will help keep future landers, astronauts, and nearby hardware from getting sandblasted when real engines light on the Moon.
LEGO just put Darth Vader’s flagship back on the table, and this time the ship eats a shelf the way the original ate a Rebel fleet. Set 75457, the Ultimate Collector Series Executor Super Star Destroyer, is a 6,130-piece model that stretches 53.5 inches long, 20 inches wide, and a little more than 7.5 inches tall. Finished weight sits above 11 pounds. Retail is $799.99 in the United States, £649.99 in the UK, and €749.99 in Europe. Builders get first crack on October 1, 2026, at LEGO stores and LEGO.com.