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Most of the new phones on the market today launch with Wi-Fi 6 or the newer 6E standard with the latter only meant as a transitional step before the inevitable debut of Wi-Fi 7 devices. A new report from DigiTimes backed by IC inspection labs suggests that the first batch of Wi-Fi 7 phones are expected to debut on the market in the second half of 2024. As usual, Samsung will be one of the pioneers of the new Wi-Fi standard with its Galaxy S24 expected to be among the first phones on the market to support Wi-Fi 7.…

Frank Drake, the eminent radio astronomer who in 1960 performed the first search for  extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) around other stars, died Friday at his home near Santa Cruz, California. He was 92. His daughter, science journalist Nadia Drake, shared the news on her website. “A titan in life,” she wrote, “Dad leaves a titanic absence.” “Frank founded an entire field,” says astrophysicist Andrew Siemion, director of the Berkeley SETI Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley. “He played a crucial…

Marathon Oil: "Marathon Oil is good, but why not own one of these with a giant dividend? How about Pioneer? Pioneer has the largest dividend in the S&P, and that's my one. That's the thing I would do. Scott Sheffield know what he's doing. He's terrific."ICL Group: "I'm going to go with you. . I think the time is right for that. By the way, I'll throw in a twofer. I like Deere, too. I think Deere works a lot."Skyworks Solutions: "You know what, we own Qualcomm for the Charitable Trust with the CNBC Investing Club.…

“I’m very happy in this place. I feel at home,” Naira Marley, grinning ear to ear, tells me from his dodgy Zoom line in Lagos, Nigeria. For the 31-year-old singer, songwriter and rapper, making the move from the South East London borough of Peckham (or ‘Pecknarm’, as it was once known, due to its Vietnam War-like street violence) was the best thing for him and, ultimately, his career. “In the UK, problems are always around the corner,” he adds, “but here, I’m not involved with any of that gang stuff—just good living.”Born…

One of the great pioneers of reggae, Jimmy Cliff was born in Jamaica in 1944 as James Chambers, and started writing songs while in primary school. He moved to Kingston as a teenager to pursue music and had his first hit at 14 with Hurricane Hattie. After stints in New York and London he returned to Jamaica and played the lead role in the 1972 film The Harder They Come, whose soundtrack (featuring four of Cliff’s songs) helped popularise reggae around the world. The film has just been rereleased for its 50th anniversary,…

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Gene LeBell, regarded as America’s first martial arts sensation before parlaying his athleticism into a career as a professional wrestler, actor and stuntman, has died at the age of 89, his family confirmed. LeBell, who had been in declining health for the past eight months, died in his sleep at home in Sherman Oaks, with his loving wife of years, Midge, by his side on Tuesday, Aug. 9, 2022. “He was larger than life, and he was so kind. If you said you liked his shirt, he would take it off and give it to you,” Midge…

I had never held a piece by Issey Miyake before the tail end of a trip back home to Japan in 2019, when I wandered into the Pleats Please boutique in the Narita International Airport before my flight. Candy-colored clothes hung like streaks of paint against the perfectly white laminated walls. Store attendees patiently strolled about as travelers with luggage fumbled with scarves, jostled hangers, and cocked their heads sideways, assessing how to wear the seemingly shapeless garments. The way movement is such an…

It may be accident or design, but this documentary about one of the most influential photographers of the 19th century is being released just in time to resonate with a key detail in Jordan Peele’s new feature Nope. In the latter film, the Black siblings at the heart of the story claim their jockey ancestor was the man riding the horse in Eadweard Muybridge’s famous series of pictures of a racehorse galloping, a work commissioned by railroad baron Leland Stanford who wanted to know conclusively if at any point in a stride…

Image: Oscilloscope LabsClaydream, Marq Evans’ new documentary about animator Will Vinton, addresses the elephant in the room immediately: yes, this is the guy who lost his company to his most deep-pocketed investor, Nike founder Phil Knight. It’s something that looms over the film, but it’s not the only melancholy element that colors this portrait of Vinton’s life and career.Made with the cooperation of Vinton himself, who died of cancer in 2018 but is interviewed extensively here, Claydream offers a visual history of…