ISRO Sending Humanoid ‘Vyommitra’ to Space Ahead of Manned Mission The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is planning to send its first manned mission to space in December 2021, but before that, it is apparently sending a half-humanoid robot to space later this year. Called‘Vyommitra’(Friend in Space), the so-called ‘lady-robot’ will be one of the payloads aboard the unmanned‘Gaganyaan’spacecraft when it takes off in December 2020. The name of the humanoid is a combination of two Sanskrit words,‘Vyoma’, meaning space and‘Mitra’, meaning friend....

Motorola Razr to Go On Sale Starting February 6 Afteroriginally unveilingits clamshell folding reincarnation of the original Moto Razr back in November last year, and thendelaying its launchciting high demand for the phone, Motorola has finally revealed the new pre-order and release dates for the Motorola Razr. The Motorola Razr will now go on pre-order starting January 26 — exactly one month after its originally planned pre-order date of December 26 — and will be available to pre-order via Verizon, Walmart, and Motorola....

Poco Seemingly Confirms the ‘Poco X2’ Name in a Teaser Video Having announcedplans to launch a new Poco smartphonein India this year, Xiaomi has now started to tease the upcoming device via its official Poco India Twitter handle. The company earlier this week posted an 18-second video, offering a look into the second coming of the brand almost two years after the launch of thefirst and only Poco phoneback in 2018....

Realme Explains Why It’s Adding Ads to Its Smartphones “We sell phones. We don’t sell ads.”Well, Realme India CEO Madhav Sheth made this sly remark against Xiaomi’s MIUI skin at the Realme 3 Pro launch last year. However, if you have been keeping track, you would know that Realme has now itselfdecided to introduce ads into ColorOS(now rebranded to Realme UI, based on ColorOS) on their smartphones. Sheth has now walked back on his statement from the aforementioned launch and if it’s any consolation, he has nowoffered an explanationas to why your Realme phone will show adsgoing forward....

Realme/Oppo/Mi Share Nowhere Close to AirDrop Realme recently started rolling out its brand new, Android 10 based skin, Realme UI, to a couple of its smartphones and I’ve been testing it out for the last few days. Among the many impressive and cool newRealme UI featuresthat I have discovered so far, including the ability totake partial screenshots, andscreen record with internal audio, one that I’m very excited about is that the new Realme Share now works with Xiaomi, Oppo, and Vivo devices as well, which brings the feature closer to being anAirDrop alternativethan anything else so far....

Samsung Galaxy S10 Lite with Snapdragon 855, 48MP Camera Launched at Rs. 39,999 Merely a couple of days after the launch of theGalaxy Note 10 Litein India, Samsung has today brought the Galaxy S10 Lite to the country as well. It sports a similar design, including the Infinity-O display and triple cameras. But, it stands tall against the Note 10 Lite since it’s backed by the flagship Snapdragon 855 chipset instead of Samsung’s own Exynos chips....

Seattle Residents Can Now Vote Using Smartphones Even asconcerns about foreign interferencein US elections are at a crescendo, one local agency in the US state of Washington is hosting the country’s first election over the internet in what is being described as a historic moment for American democracy. According toNPR, a local conservation agency called the King Conservation District in the Greater Seattle area is set to hold the historic election where 1....