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Tecno Mobile Tecno Mobile has taken to Mobile World Congress 2024 to announce the Tecno Dynamic 1, a robotic and AI-enhanced dog, reigniting the futuristic sci-fi dream for millions of nerds. The Dynamic 1 has been painstakingly created to emulate a real dog as closely as possible, with its design based on the German Shepherd breed. A cooling system within the Dynamic 1’s knees allows the robot to copy dog movements, letting it climb stairs, bow, and offer a paw for handshakes. Four microphones work with an AI…

ADVERTISEMENT Lots of things change over time, and while some friend groups stick together through it all, the dynamics might inevitably change, too. For this redditor, things started shifting when her friends started having children. The group grew bigger and bigger and the OP—the only one without kids—was expected to go with the flow, which entailed covering part of the children’s expenses. But when she asked her friends to make accommodations for her, the group wasn’t willing to.Many things can change in life, but…

Tecno is expanding its product portfolio far beyond smartphones at this year's MWC, as the company unveiled a Pocket Go wireless AR gaming set and a Dynamic 1 robot dog in Barcelona. Tecno Pocket Go and AR Pocket vision The Tecno Pocket Go is a Windows handheld console, meant to work with a pair of AR glasses – a truly intriguing combination we haven't seen before. The headset is equipped with a 0.71” micro-OLED screen, which would match the viewing angle of a 215” TV from six meters away. It is also equipped with…

On 22 February, we published a story about a stray dog in Goa, which approached a tourist. The dog hopped up on the scooter, and refused to leave, waiting for the tourist to start the scooter and ride away. Even though he was scared of dogs, he finally did it – and later brought the dog back to the same area from where he picked up the dog. The tourist, and many who saw the video of this event, said that it was very cute, the dog had adopted the tourist, and that the dog had wanderlust and so on. However, things are…

Incidents of cruelty against people are often reported in the news; however, when the same occurs with animals, we often tend to ignore it. We all know that there are several stray animals on our roads. Many of them are hit by vehicles on highways, causing accidents. In most cases, these animals lose their lives or are seriously injured. Here we have an incident from Goa where a Mercedes-Benz driver drove over a sleeping dog in front of a society. After the video of this incident went viral, the driver of the car was…

The relationship between dogs and humans is seen as one of the most pure relations, and these creatures have proved their loyalty a million times. Now, sometimes it is also not necessary for a person to know a dog for a very long time before the dog starts trusting him. And recently, a prime example of this was showcased online. In this short video, a person visiting Goa shows how a dog came and sat on his friend’s scooter and hitchhiked his way through Goa before jumping on to another vehicle and continuing the…

A Los Angeles landscaper who said he was viciously mauled by French Montana’s Tibetan Mountain Dog four years ago is demanding a $2.3 million default judgment against the rapper and record producer. Plaintiff Jason Leyva says the 2019 attack left him with lasting injuries affecting his professional prospects and ability to care for his young daughter. He says French Montana, whose legal name is Karim Kharbouch, hasn’t responded to his multiple attempts to serve him with the complaint, so the court should intervene…

Beyoncé dropped her new country song Texas Hold ‘Em on February 11 during the Super Bowl, but it seems not everybody felt enthusiastic about Queen Bey dipping her toes into the country music pool. Actor John Schneider recently compared her dive into the genre to a dog marking its territory.The Dukes of Hazzard star made the analogy during an interview with conservative network One America News after host Alison Steinberg discussed how Beyoncé’s fans pushed to get Texas Hold ’Em played on a country music radio station in…

It’s Oscar season in Hollywood, and I had been sent to the Four Seasons hotel in Beverly Hills for an interview with one of the year’s breakout stars.As I entered the lobby I saw him immediately: his shaggy black-and-white locks, those distinctive, eerie blue eyes. He was wearing a leash, and a female fan had wrapped her arms around him. A crowd of people were snapping photographs.Like Tom Cruise, Messi, the dog from Anatomy of a Fall, looks a little smaller in real life, but he has the same intense charisma. The French…

Something dramatic happens on a social media platform every day. On Goodreads, the anachro­nistically designed website for logging, rating (out of five) and reviewing books, the dramas are more amusing, and they occasionally even draw attention from areas beyond the site’s supposedly book-loving users. The most recent featured Cait Corrain, the fantasy author who set up an elaborate network of fake accounts to post positive reviews of her own forthcoming book as well as negative reviews of authors she felt were her…