Bill Gates

Bill Gates' green investments to shift from tackling climate change to mitigating impacts

Refocuses on adaption technologies while oil industry continues to receive billions in government subsidies

Science26 Oct 2022 | 25

Bill Gates venture backs effort to bring aircon startup to market

Supports liquid desiccant tech to store energy to smooth bumps in demand, lower greenhouse gas impact

Science29 Jul 2022 | 63

Photonics startup Luminous Computing bags $105m

Bill Gates among those plowing funds into AI supercomputing tech

HPC05 Mar 2022 | 7

Saved by the Bill: What if... Microsoft had killed Windows 95?

Now this looks like a job for me, 'cos we need a little, controversy... 'Cos it feels so NT, without me

OSes25 Jan 2022 | 91

Reports link Bill Gates' departure from Microsoft board in 2020 with probe into employee affair

Gates denies connection

Software17 May 2021 | 37

Philanthropist and ex-Microsoft manager Melinda Gates and her husband Bill split after 27 years of marriage

We know the pandemic has been tough on relationships but...

Bootnotes03 May 2021 | 114

Bill Gates on climate change: Planting trees is not the answer, emissions need to be zeroed out to avoid disaster

Review 'Every country will need to change its ways' says Microsoft billionaire

Science16 Feb 2021 | 134

Today's tech giants won't be as naive as I was in DoJ dealings, says former Microsoft chief Bill Gates

'I didn’t realise that our success would lead to government attention'

Legal22 Oct 2020 | 33

Bill Gates lays out a three-point plan to rid the world of COVID-19 – and anti-vaxxer cranks aren't gonna like it

Aunty Mabel on Facebook thinks he is a Bond baddie (spoiler: he's not)

Legal30 Sep 2020 | 184

Bill Gates debunks 'coronavirus vaccine is my 5G mind control microchip implant' conspiracy theory

He would say that… because he's not an actual supervillain

Bootnotes24 Jul 2020 | 213

Microsoft's Bill Gates defrag is finally virtually complete: Billionaire quits board to double down on philanthropy

You look like you have coronavirus, can I help you with that?

Software13 Mar 2020 | 108

Bill G on Microsoft's biggest blunder... Was it Bing, Internet Explorer, Vista, the antitrust row?

Nope: It was not giving Android a run for its money...

Software24 Jun 2019 | 109

Bill Gates joined on stage by jar of poop as he confesses deep love for talking about toilets

Microsoft man opens three-day newfangled shithouse expo

Bootnotes06 Nov 2018 | 41

Bill Gates declined offer to serve as Donald Trump's science advisor

Spontaneous offer made during chat about vaccines (which - phew! - Trump seemed to like)

Science01 May 2018 | 63

Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...

Video Relive that sphincter-loosening Blue Screen of Death

OSes20 Apr 2018 | 95

Cryptocurrencies kill people and may kill again, says Bill Gates

Q&A touches on tough topics like 'Tabs or Spaces?'

Science28 Feb 2018 | 54

My name is Bill Gates and I am an Android user

Sir. Have you no, er, shame?

Personal Tech26 Sep 2017 | 86

Bill Gates says he'd do CTRL-ALT-DEL with one key if given the chance to go back through time

Gives two-fingered salute to IBM designers for forcing us to use three-fingered salute

Personal Tech21 Sep 2017 | 170

Bezos' bonkers bank of bucks beats big Bill's brilliant billionaire bundle

Updated President Broflake won't be happy about it

Bootnotes27 Jul 2017 | 10

Tech moguls dominate Oxfam's rich people Hateful 8

They've got as much money as half the world, scolds charity

Bootnotes16 Jan 2017 | 70

Bill Gates joins $170bn climate change investment club

Clean tech on the list

Science13 Dec 2016 | 83

Mark Zuckerberg and the $3bn cash fling: He's not your father's tech kingpin

History, philanthropy and the Victorian computing age

Legal27 Sep 2016 | 33

Zuckerberg to spend $3bn+ to rid world of all disease by 2100 (Starting with Facebook, right?)

And yet WhatsApp cost $19bn?

Science21 Sep 2016 | 70

PC pioneer Gary Kildall's unpublished memoir revealed

CP/M and BIOS inventor adds to story of how Microsoft's IBM deal shaped the PC forever

Personal Tech04 Aug 2016 | 38

Bill Gates cooks up poultry recipe for Africans' paltry existence

'If I were living in extreme poverty, I’d want to raise chickens'

Channel09 Jun 2016 | 99

US tech CEOs demand Congress programs US kids to be tech workers

Feed us more compsci grads!

Software26 Apr 2016 | 38

Apple Fools: Times the House of Jobs went horribly awry

Apple at 40 Plenty of bumps in the 40-year road for Mac makers

Channel01 Apr 2016 | 76

Is there anything left to ask Bill Gates? (Other than gissus a million?)

World's richest man does his fourth ask-me-anything Q&A, leaves web scratching its head

Channel08 Mar 2016 | 31

Bill Gates can’t give it away... Still crazy rich after all these years

Humanitarian worth 16.6 Donald Trumps, says Forbes

Channel02 Mar 2016 | 81

FBI v Apple spat latest: Bill Gates is really upset that you all thought he was on the Feds' side

C'mon, Bill. It's not a stretch. We remember the 1990s

Security23 Feb 2016 | 98

Zuck's bucks are now the world's 6th-largest cash pile

Facebook tycoon trails only Gates and Bezos in total worth

On-Prem29 Jan 2016 | 12

Zuck, Gates and Bono in ludicrous internet access for world+dog by 2020 bid

UN pledge seemingly ignores UN broadband slowdown report

Networks27 Sep 2015 | 33

'We've got the sanitation problem solved', says world's richest poop drinker

QuoTW Plus: Don't mess with Zuck's 'high ethical standards'

Bootnotes16 Aug 2015 | 3

Cheers, Bill Gates. Who wouldn't want drinking water made from POO?

Turd transmutation device also makes 'leccy and ash

Bootnotes13 Aug 2015 | 48

Bulgarian Bill Gates blagger busted, banged up, again: report

Philippine cops arrest man using Microsoft mogul's fake cards at local ATM

Security13 Apr 2015 | 11

Midlife crisis, suck ingenuity? Microsoft turns 40; does the dad dance

Bill Gates: I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords

Software04 Apr 2015 | 52

'There is NO SUCH THING as a safe site anymore' – security bod

QuoTW Plus: Heard the one about Tim Cook's liver? It'll make you shiver. Brrr

Bootnotes15 Mar 2015 | 4

He can't give it away FAST ENOUGH: Bill Gates richest man in world again

Microsoft founder back on Forbes rich list

Channel03 Mar 2015 | 17

In India, Facebook and chums boil the internet down to 38 websites

That's all you'll need – cat pics, stupid videos and medical tips

On-Prem10 Feb 2015 | 10

Bill Gates – I WISH I was like Zuck and spoke Chinese. Yep, I drink poo

Je ne suis pas un millionnaire. Je suis un milliardaire

Channel28 Jan 2015 | 90

BILL GATES DRINKS 'boiled and treated' POO. Ah, 'delicious'

Microsoft founder trials machine that turns sh*t into gold

Channel07 Jan 2015 | 96

Tech titans lob $25m at 'social' business Change.org

Social activism platform raises cash from Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman and more

On-Prem09 Dec 2014 |

Gates Foundation to insist on Open Access science

All funded research – and data - to be released under Creative Commons, say Bill and Melinda

Science27 Nov 2014 | 16

Gates and Ballmer NOT ON SPEAKING TERMS – report

Microsoft men's friendship said to have ended in clash over Nokia buy

Channel09 Oct 2014 | 63

Lotus Notes inventor Ozzie invents app to talk to people on your phone

Imagine that. Startup floats with voice collab app for Win iPhone

On-Prem23 Sep 2014 | 6

Bill Gates: Sell off Bing? Nah. Xbox? Maybe...

Microsoft founder says he can't see selling money-losing online division 'making sense'

On-Prem05 May 2014 | 70

Who's top Microsoft shareholder? Uh oh, it's STEVE BALLMER

Sweaty ex-CEO now owns more shares than Bill Gates

Channel03 May 2014 | 29

Bill Gates-backed SOLAR POO RAYGUN COMMODE unveiled

Now the sun actually does shine where the sun doesn't shine

Science14 Mar 2014 | 72

Microsoft was 'willing' to buy WhatsApp says Bill Gates

Founder also feels core Microsoft products need 'more than a tuneup' for the cloud

On-Prem14 Mar 2014 | 10

Bill Gates is BACK... as CHIEF RICH human of PLANET EARTH

Software king bumps Carlos Slim into second place

Channel03 Mar 2014 | 51

Microsoft chairman John Thompson: Redmond looks 'like IBM in 1990'

Will new CEO Satya Nadella be Microsoft's Lou Gerstner?

Channel28 Feb 2014 | 24

RISE of the MACHINES and Bitcoin: Bill Gates' Reddit tech predictions

Chief Microsoftie's AMA sesh details new job, nuke ambitions and his private jet

On-Prem11 Feb 2014 | 23

New Microsoft CEO Nadella could earn FOURTEEN TIMES what Ballmer banked in 2013

Being named Microsoft's CEO can be quite a windfall, it seems

On-Prem05 Feb 2014 | 16

It's Satya! Microsoft VP Nadella named CEO as Bill Gates steps down

Server boss steps up to the plate, ends months of fevered speculation

On-Prem04 Feb 2014 | 65

Bill Gates to pull a Steve Jobs and SAVE MICROSOFT – report

Will step down as chairman to get hands-on with products

Channel03 Feb 2014 | 79

Tech titan Bill Gates: Polio-free India one of the 'most impressive accomplishments' ever

$255m well spent for Microsoft kingpin

Legal14 Jan 2014 | 65