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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…

Electronics outfit Micross has announced the launch of a 1 gigabit magnetoresistive RAM (MRAM) component, its highest-density part yet - and a device it hopes will prove the future of spintronics for high-reliability computing in harsh environments. Packaged in 18x20mm ceramic land-grid array (LGA) and ball-grid array (BGA) formats, the…

JOHANNESBURG - The former police officer accused of murdering six family members to cash out insurance policies insists she's innocent. Nomia Rosemary Ndlovu has also denied plotting the deaths of her sister and five nieces and nephews. She's been testifying at her murder trial in the high court sitting in…

Home » Business » Russia is not ready for digital currency payments, Kremlin says Russia banned the use of digital currency payments in July last year, and according to the Kremlin, this law isn’t about to be reversed any time soon. A representative of the highest office in the country…

DISTRAUGHT Vladimir Putin has wept over the coffin of a close pal who died "trying to save a man's life in an Arctic drill". A grief-stricken Putin appeared devastated as he said farewell today to the open coffin of his emergencies' minister - and former personal bodyguard - who died on Tuesday ‘trying…

(Adds foreign ministry statement, details) MOSCOW, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Russia's foreign ministry said on Friday it had summoned U.S. Ambassador John Sullivan to meet Russian Deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov over alleged interference in the September parliamentary election. Russia has "undeniable proof" that tech giants, based in the United…

Scientists have known for decades that the particulate emissions from ships can have a dramatic effect on low-lying stratocumulus clouds above the ocean. In satellite images, parts of the Earth's oceans are streaked with bright white strips of clouds that correspond to shipping lanes. These artificially brightened clouds are a…