Monday, October 13, 2025

Technology

You Can Edit Videos on Your iPhone for Free With Adobe’s New Premiere App

The only thing you might need to pay for to use Adobe's new app are AI credits and cloud storage.

Zoox’s Self-Driving Test Vehicles Are Heading to Washington, DC

This is the company's eighth testing location. Zoox says DC's "complex and unique street layout" and "seasonal weather challenges" can help hone its tech.

Nothing Phone 3 Update Will Let You Create Apps With AI and Share Them

The new features, Playground and Essential Apps, are said to be Nothing's first step toward building an AI-focused operating system.

AI Is Going to Wrap Itself Around You, From Your Glasses to Your Car

In an exclusive in-car chat at the Snapdragon Summit in Hawaii, Qualcomm CMO Don McGuire paints me a picture of a personal ecosystem of ambient AI.

The First Ever At-Home Cortisol Test Just Launched. And You Don’t Even Need to Draw Blood

Eli Health's Hormometer lets you track cortisol levels with just saliva and your phone.

This AI Wearable Is the World’s First ‘Near-Telepathic’ Device

Alterego's new AI wearable device can read your brain signals so you can communicate without speaking.

Protect the Honmoon This Halloween With Official KPop Demon Hunters Costumes

You're gonna be golden when you dress up this year.

The Best Expert-Approved Weightlifting Shoes for 2025

The best training shoes have a roomy toe box and some lift for the heel. We've dug deep to find doctor-approved weightlifting shoes that meet this criteria.

Philo Adds HBO Max Access to Core Plan, Increases Price

Ad-based Discovery Plus and HBO Max are now included with a Philo subscription, but customers will have to pay more.

Best PlayStation 5 Controllers in 2025

We tested a bunch of PS5 controllers to help you find the best one.
- Advertisement -spot_img

Latest News

Advocate.Pioneer.Prodigy

Allan “Skill” Cole’s role in transforming radio playlists in Jamaica was recalled by Kay Osbourne, his friend of over 60 years and former general manager at Television Jamaica, during the thanksgiving service for his life at the National Arena on Saturday, October 11.

Unlike today, Rasta and reggae were forbidden on Jamaican airwaves in the early 1970s. It took some muscle from Cole to get the music of The Wailers on radio stations like Radio Jamaica.

She said Cole, raised in a middle-class home, defied societal norms.

“It is in this Jamaica that radio stations outright refused to play music created by Rastafari. They shut the airwaves to the message that Rasta brought; no radio station would play a tune that glorify natty dread or venerate kaya,” she noted. “But as The Wailers manager, and immersed in Wailers music, Skill knew he had to attack the system, knowing that The Wailers’ messages were vital to and the sound was essential to the upliftment of the entire world.”

The aggressive methods by Cole against disc jockeys coincided with the roots-reggae explosion of the 1970s. While Radio Jamaica remained largely conservative, the rival Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation was more receptive to Marley and his contemporaries who included Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer, his former colleagues in The Wailers, Burning Spear and The Wailing Souls.

A prodigy, Cole played for Jamaica at age 15, but had strong ties to music. At last Saturday’s service, there were tribute performances from the Binghistra Movement, Denzil “Dipstick” Williams, Leroy Sibbles, Bongo Herman, Dean Fraser, Tarrus Riley, Luciano, Beenie Man, Junior Reid, and Stephen Marley, son of Bob Marley.

The mercurial Cole epitomised the growing social awareness that gripped Jamaica in the 1960s and 1970s. Like Marley, he embraced Rastafari through the teachings of Mortimo Planno, a leader of that movement who lived in Trench Town.

Cole was Marley’s manager on his final tour, which was of the United States, in 1980.

Marley died from cancer in May 1981 in Miami at age 36.

Some of the music industry figures who attended the thanksgiving service were I Three members Marcia Griffiths and Judy Mowatt, mother of three of Cole’s six children; Entertainment and Culture Minister Olivia Grange; Opposition People’s National Party President Mark Golding; veteran tour manager Copeland Forbes; Mutabaruka; Tommy Cowan; Cindy Breakespeare; musicians Robbie Lyn, Stephen Stewart, and Noel Davy; singers Maxi Priest, Desi Young, Sampalue, and Ras Michael Jr; Michael “Mikey Dan” Whyte (Bob Marley’s former cook); consultant Clyde McKenzie; and music producers Mikey Bennett and Trevor “Leggo” Douglas.

— Howard Campbell

- Advertisement -spot_img