A former Sinclair employee explains why the company behind the iconic ZX Spectrum refused to understand its importance to a generation of gamers. Luke Westaway is a senior editor at CNET and writer/ ...

Sir Clive Sinclair's contributions to the world extend beyond gaming, so prolific were his inventions. But as games professionals and enthusiasts alike expressed their sadness at news of his passing ...

Richard Trenholm was CNET's film and TV editor, covering the big screen, small screen and streaming. A member of the Film Critic's Circle, he's covered technology and culture from London's tech scene ...

A digital watch that kept poor time and might explode. A keyboard that felt like typing on a corpse. A three-wheeled electric “car” that couldn’t power its way uphill. No successful products for ...

It is with sadness that we note the passing of the British writer, engineer, home computer pioneer, and entrepreneur, Sir Clive Sinclair, who died this morning at the age of 81 after a long illness.

Sir Clive Sinclair, the namesake of a British electronics manufacturer who helped pioneer Europe’s microcomputing boom, is dead at the age of 81. His company, Sinclair Radionics, is arguably best ...

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 ...

Clive Sinclair, who invented the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, an early personal computer, died of cancer Thursday at age 81, his family confirmed. Sinclair was an inventor with an impressive list of ...

These days we are accustomed to seeing high-tech innovators in the mold of Steve Jobs or Elon Musk. Yet more common are the inventors, pioneers, and dreamers whose contributions to technological ...

Born in Richmond, London (then Surrey) in 1940, Sir Clive left school at 17, not wanting to go to University. He worked for four years as a technical journalist to raise funds to found Sinclair ...

Sir Clive Sinclair, the British inventor who pioneered the home computing industry and created the earliest examples of hand-held calculators, flat-screen televisions and electric vehicles, died at ...