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MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — President Vladimir Putin’s United Russia party was on track to win a strong majority in a parliamentary vote, results showed Monday, after an election that followed an unprecedented crackdown on the opposition. With 50 percent of votes counted, United Russia was ahead with 46.11% of the…

image source, EPA image captionOpponents of President Vladimir Putin have accused Russian authorities of mass election fraudRussian President Vladimir Putin's party has won a parliamentary majority following an election marred by reports of fraud. With almost all of the votes counted, the United Russia party had won nearly 50% of…

MOSCOW—Russia’s ruling party appeared on course to maintain its majority in parliament, preliminary results showed, in an outcome that would cement President Vladimir Putin’s control over his country’s main levers of power. The initial tally showed pro-Kremlin United Russia won 50% of votes cast, followed by the Communist Party of…

Sir Clive Sinclair's contributions to computing and business are well known, and we've done our best to celebrate his life in our obituary of the electronics pioneer, who passed last week aged 81. To mark his life we felt it appropriate to also consider his impact on Reg readers. Like…

Obituary Sir Clive Sinclair, the visionary pioneer of computing for the British masses and creator of the legendary ZX Spectrum, has died at the age of 81. His legacy is the British tech scene as we know it today. Born in leafy Richmond, Surrey, at the height of the Battle…

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting of heads of member states at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit, held in Dushanbe, via video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on September 17, 2021 (left) and China´s President Xi Jinping (R) speaking at Macau´s international airport on December 18,…

LONDON (AP) — Clive Sinclair, the British inventor and entrepreneur who arguably did more than anyone else to inspire a whole generation of children into a life-long passion for computers and gaming, has died. He was 81. Sinclair, who rose to prominence in the early 1980s with a series of…

LONDON — Clive Sinclair, the British inventor and entrepreneur who arguably did more than anyone else to inspire a whole generation of children into a life-long passion for computers and gaming, has died. He was 81. Sinclair, who rose to prominence in the early 1980s with a series of affordable…

Photo: Central Press / Stringer (Getty Images) It’s hard to overstate the importance of Sir Clive Sinclair’s role in the world of computing. His inventing the ZX Spectrum home computer in 1980 radically changed the masses’ perception of, and access to, computers. His work created the path to not only…

OPINION: “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses”. This is a famous quote that’s attributed to Henry Ford. Whether he actually uttered those words or not doesn’t really matter. The point is: people are very good at describing their problems and saying what…