Council advances ordinance to raise household pet cap and remove species limit. Joint Animal Services backs eliminating cap, citing adoption and fostering barriers. City can use ordinance for ...

As the pet tech writer here on the WIRED Reviews team, I’ve tested over 100 pet-related products, including automatic pet feeders, pet water fountains, and pet cameras. The one brand I keep buying for ...

OpenJDK project teams will focus work on features such as value types, code reflection, AOT compilation, and structured concurrency in the coming year. Oracle’s Java team in 2026 will work toward ...

Takway, a startup that aims to become the Nintendo of the AI robotics era, unveiled a Tamagotchi-style virtual pet at CES 2026. Called Sweekar, it is a palm-sized toy pet with built-in AI, designed in ...

Takway has unveiled Sweekar at CES 2026, a physical, AI-powered Tamagotchi-style companion that users can touch, pet, and care for through multiple life stages. With voice recognition, memory, and a ...

When the Tamagotchi first launched all those decades ago, it took the world by storm. It was just a bunch of simple animations on a monochrome LCD, but it had heart, and people responded to that.

Takara Tomy has released the Poke-Nade Monster Ball, a new Pokeball-shaped virtual pet device The device features physical touch sensors, allowing users to genuinely pet and care for the Pokémon ...

Artur is a copywriter and SEO specialist, as well as a small business owner. In his free time, he loves to play computer games and is glad that he was able to connect his professional career with his ...

LETTS, Iowa (KWQC) - Virtual fencing is used to keep pets in designated areas outside. The Nature Conservancy is testing the same concept, but with cattle. A three-year pilot project kicked off this ...

What if your childhood Tamagotchi could step off the screen and into the real world? Imagine a tiny robot, complete with blinking eyes and lifelike movements, responding to your voice and following ...

Fabian Kamberi, CEO and co-founder of the Berlin-based AI gaming startup Born, thinks the current AI companions on the market are designed to be exploitative and geared toward isolating users through ...

Creature collectors like Pokemon have always had some relationship to the beloved Tamagotchi. In fact, these virtual pets were the inspiration behind Digimon, which was created as a more “masculine” ...