The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which publishes the actual rules that Wi-Fi devices reference, said its standards-writing process is running ahead of schedule and should publish the new standard before year's end.

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According to Brian Stableford, writing in the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, the definitive reference on the genre, Camille Flammarion was the first author to present a popular fictional portrait of truly alien life-forms.

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This strong sense of history and context makes Mr Giddins much more than your average jazz journo, and his writing abounds with stimulating observations, even if his far-flung gift for reference occasionally gets the better of him.

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