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Claude Sonnet Takes the Wheel in Doom

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been writing code, answering questions, and generating images for a while now. But thanks to a new open source project from Andrea Ricci, it can also stumble its way through the corridors of Doom running on an embedded microcontroller. The project combines an ESP32-P4 development board, the classic first-person shooter, and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet to create an AI player that experiences the game much like a human would.

The hardware platform is the SCINTIX P4, a system-on-module built around Espressif's ESP32-P4 paired with an ESP32-C6 for wireless connectivity. Doomruns directly on the board, displaying on a 7-inch 1024x600 MIPI-DSI panel. Although the game still renders at its original 320x200 resolution, the ESP32-P4's Pixel Processing Accelerator performs hardware scaling to fill the display. Offloading that work from the CPU reduced frame scaling time from roughly 24 milliseconds to about 9 milliseconds, allowing the game to maintain...

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How to See the Partial Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on August 27

If you missed the spectacular solar eclipse earlier this month, you have a chance to catch another stunning astronomical phenomenon: a partial lunar eclipse and “blood moon” that will occur on Thursday night into Friday early morning. Earth’s shadow will cover nearly all of the bright lunar disk and

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Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing

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Apple Maps Has Ads Now. They Might Not Be Terrible, but You Can’t Turn Them Off

Apple, as expected, has introduced advertisements into its Maps navigation app, though you might not notice them at first. The company confirmed in March it would bring ads to Maps and other services, including Mail, Wallet and Siri, as part of an Apple Business platform it launched in April. The

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CPU shipments fall as consumers pay the cost for price rises — but AMD grows its share

* Desktop CPU shipments dropped over 20% amid rising memory and GPU costs * AMD now holds nearly 35% of the entire desktop processor market * Mobile CPU shipments jumped as Intel finally closed its capacity gap Global processor shipments fell in the second quarter of 2026 compared with the same period a

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How to See the Partial Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on August 27

Source: Nvidia has been in talks to acquire Hugging Face for more than $13B; Microsoft also met with Hugging Face, but talks are not ongoing

Apple Maps Has Ads Now. They Might Not Be Terrible, but You Can’t Turn Them Off

CPU shipments fall as consumers pay the cost for price rises &mdash; but AMD grows its share

CPU shipments fall as consumers pay the cost for price rises — but AMD grows its share