Google Doodle honors '40s actress Hedy Lamarr, who helped make Wi-Fi a thing

Hedy Lamarr was unquestionably one of the biggest movie stars of the 1930s and '40s. Her beauty was legendary, but in the 21st century, Lamarr's stardom is all but forgotten — and the lasting impression she made is actually in the field of invention.

Lamarr, who would have been 101 on Monday (she died in 2000), is being remembered with an animated Google Doodle that pays tribute to her career, both as an actress and as the co-inventor of a mechanical spectrum hopping scheme that was intended to help the Allies create a secret World War II communication system between submarines and the torpedoes they were firing. Read more...