Vic Hayes has been called the "Father of Wi-Fi," but there's an actor and composer involved, too Victor Hayes gets the credit for inventing Wi-Fi, but like many inventions, more than one person is ...

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Before Thursday's World Cup play-off against the Czech Republic, Seamus Coleman eloquently captures the mood inside the ...

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New Delhi: Ask anyone who built the first airplane, and they will tell you – the Wright brothers. But dig a little deeper; the story is not so straightforward. There has been an unspoken, and often ...

Often celebrated for her Hollywood beauty, Hedy Lamarr was also a brilliant inventor whose frequency-hopping technology helped lay the foundation for modern wireless systems such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth ...

If hip-hop is the folk music of the post-industrial age, then Slick Rick is its Woody Guthrie. Born in London and raised in ...

Historian Gerry Bowler questions democracy’s durability, arguing that Canadians tolerate soft despotism as civic apathy, weak ...