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Lees meerFormer staff, kids who got their first taste of tech, a Reg hack, and even Linus Torvalds share what the electronics pioneer meant to them Sir Clive Sinclair's contributions to computing and business are well known, and we've done our best to celebr…
Lees meerLifelong cost focus was his namesake company's corporate downfall 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 …
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Lees meerRemember when a games developer could be one guy with a ZX Spectrum? We like a bit of digital archaeology at Vulture Central so we were delighted to learn that retro-computing enthusiasts at Swindon's Museum of Computing have found games by Dymond S…
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Lees meerUp to 20Gbps link sustained over the Congo in comms experiment Engineers at Google’s technology moonshot lab X say they used lasers to beam 700TB of internet traffic between two cities separated by the Congo River.…
Lees meerLatest laptops prone to cracking, distortions, owners complain Aggrieved MacBook owners in two separate lawsuits claim Apple's latest laptops with its M1 chips have defective screens that break easily and malfunction.…
Lees meerFrom pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond Sir Clive Sinclair died on Thursday at home in London after a long illness, his family said today. He was 81.…
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Lees meerMoratorium offered to ease burden of $22B debts India has re-written some of its telecommunications laws to make foreign investment easier and reduce enormous retrospective tax bills that threatened to send some carriers to the wall.…
Lees meerStaff also told to 'seize the patent position' on sixth-gen mobile networks Huawei founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei told an internal company meeting his mega-corp must focus early on 6G to avoid being restrained by patents – and it will seek internation…
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Lees meer'Our hope is that DNA-based CPUs will replace electronic CPUs in the future' Boffins at the Incheon National University have made what they claim to be a breakthrough in computing: a programmable processor which uses DNA, rather than electronics, to…
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