In an AMA (Ask Me Anything) session on social news site, Reddit, Bill Gates answered questions about his foundation’s work …
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Gates Foundation: Funding the Toilets of the Future
The flush toilet, which has existed in essentially the same form since 1775, is long due for an update. A year ago, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation awarded $4,000,000 in grants to eight universities to create a safe, efficient, near-waterless toilet — one that costs less than five cents per user per day. This week in Seattle, the …
Steve Jobs or Bill Gates: Who Will Be Remembered 50 Years from Now?
Tim Bajarin is the president of Creative Strategies Inc., a technology industry analysis and market intelligence firm in Silicon Valley. He contributes to the “Big Picture” opinion column that appears every Monday on …
Making PCs Truly Personal: Visions of a Computer in Every Pocket
Bill Gates shared a vision back when the personal computing era was just starting. As computers were getting smaller — from mainframes, minis, and eventually to desktops — he famously foreshadowed a future with “a computer on …
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Don’t Pine for Bill Gates, Microsoft Fans
Putting the kibosh on one of 2011′s biggest non-stories, Bill Gates has said he isn’t going to return to full-time work at Microsoft. Thank heavens. His current gig as a philanthropist matters far more than anything he might …
Of Course Bill Gates Isn’t Coming Back to Microsoft
Bill Gates has shot down reports that he’ll ever go back to work full-time at Microsoft, the company he co-founded 36 years ago.
“I made the transition to work full time on the Foundation, and that will be what I do the rest …
Gates: Video Conferencing Will Get So Much Better Now That Microsoft Owns Skype
If you’re happy that Skype was purchased by Microsoft last week, Bill Gates is waiting to take all your thanks whenever you’re ready. Calling the multibillion dollar purchase “a great, great deal for Skype [and] a great deal for Microsoft,” Gates told the BBC that
Utterly Clueless: Bill Gates Didn’t ‘Get’ Gmail
Seven years ago, Google launched Gmail. They did it in a way that no one else had ever done it before: they offered two whole gigabytes of space. Bill Gates couldn’t understand the whole thing worked.
Many people jumped onboard, signing up, and even developers took advantage, launching Gmail Drive. The extension, which turned Google …
Microsoft Cofounder Paul Allen Slams Bill Gates in New Book
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has a book coming out this month called Idea Man. You’ll find that Vanity Fair has a multi-page excerpt of the book, and the Wall Street Journal has a slightly shorter synopsis.
The chunk of the book dedicated to the story of Paul Allen and Bill Gates co-founding Microsoft together sounds eerily …
Five Rich Tech Titans and What They’ve Given to Charity
We take a look at five really rich people in the tech business and the ways in which they give back—or, in some cases, don’t.
Bill Gates: ‘We’re Making Progress’ at Eradicating Polio
Microsoft founder and former CEO Bill Gates has been spending his retirement—and the billions of dollars he’s amassed over the years—to try to improve the education system here in the U.S. and wipe out polio worldwide.
During an appearance on The Daily Show last night, Gates talked about the challenges of administering polio …
What Do Fireflies and Bill Gates Have in Common?
Speaking at TED last week, Bill Gates unveiled his vision for cleaner energy in the future and eliminating CO2 emissions by 2050 with his endorsement of a radically different type of nuclear reactor. He also noted the miracles that occur in nature by bringing out a jar of fireflies. It’s definitely worth the 30 minutes.
