Vodafone Takes on JioFi with R217 4G MiFi Router Priced at Rs 1,950 Vodafone has launched the R217 4G MiFi router in India with peak download speed of 150Mbps, and will directly take on the JioFi portable WiFi router. The Vodafone WiFi device has been priced at Rs. 3,690, but it is currentlylisted at just Rs. 1,950on the official Vodafone Indiawebsite. The Vodafone device is capable of providing internet access to up to 15 users simultaneously, the same number of users as Reliance’s JioFi portable router supports....

WhatsApp Forward Limits Feature Is Live in India But It Seems Pointless Right Now With the Indian government pushing all the blame for thebrutal communal lynchingsin the country on WhatsApp, the messaging giant has beenadopting measuresto restrict the spread of misleading and hoax stories. Thus, WhatsApp recently took a firm stand andannouncedthat it will limit the ability to forward content to 5 chats and this feature has now started rolling out to users in India....

Xiaomi Hires Former Lenovo-Motorola Executive to Lead Mi TV Business Expanding its plans to make deeper inroads into the highly competitive Indian TV market, Xiaomi today announced that it has appointed Eshwar Chandrasekaran, former head of online business, Lenovo-Motorola, to lead its Mi TV business in the country. “Excited that Eshwar has joined @XiaomiIndia! He will be leading our #MiTV business,” Manu Jain, Vice President, Xiaomi, and Managing Director, Xiaomi India, tweeted....

YouTube Now Has 1.9 Billion Monthly Active Users, 180 Million Hours Streamed Daily Over 1.9 billion users are logging into Google-owned YouTube each month and on average, users now watch over 180 million hours ofYouTubeon TV screens every day, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has said. “Our overall interactions, such as likes, commentsandchats, grew by more than 60percentyear over year. More and more creators are building their businesses and discovering that they can shape the global conversation with just a phone and an Internet connection,”Wojcicki said in a mid-year update over the weekend....

Google Translate Converts Gibberish Into Meaningful But Scary Responses For the past two years, Google Translate has been using machine learning to provide more accurate translations. But the algorithm is now attempting to translate phrases or even random combination of words that do not make any sense into meaningful, and somewhat scary messages. The flaw caughtMotherboard‘s eye, which reports thatGoogle Translate is converting nonsensical words into well-structured sentences. Some examples include multiple repetitions of words like “dog” and “ag” which Google Translate recognizes as coming from certain foreign languages....

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Aims To Swoop Closest To The Sun NASA has achieved many amazing feats over the past few decades, exploring space and stepping foot on the moon. However, the biggest star of our solar system, the Sun, has been largely unexplored and the space agency now intends to get as close as possible to this ball of heat. NASA is currently prepping to send a probe,dubbed the Parker Solar Probe, closer to the Sun than any other man-made spacecraft has ever travelled....

Neil Armstrong’s Personal Belongings to be Set up for Auction With his first step on the surface of the moon, Neil Armstrong kindled a new hope for space exploration (and also set the stage for one of thebiggest controversiesin the history of humankind). But for enthusiasts of space exploration and fans of the astronaut, hispersonal belongings will be set up for an auction, marking the 49th anniversary of first human step on the moon....