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Bill Gates' next generation nuclear reactor to be built in Wyoming

Valerie Volcovici and Timothy Gardner, Reuters
Posted at Jun 03 08:21 AM

Billionaire Bill Gates' advanced nuclear reactor company TerraPower LLC and PacifiCorp have selected Wyoming to launch the first Natrium reactor project on the site of a retiring coal plant, the state's governor said on Wednesday. Read more »

Scrutiny increases of Bill Gates after Microsoft affair surfaces

Delphine Touitou, Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 18 05:38 AM

Gates' tenure at Microsoft has come under fresh scrutiny amid revelations that the tech giant probed Gates' intimate relationship with a staffer before he left the board of directors. Read more »

How will Bill and Melinda Gates' divorce impact their charity?

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 05 02:38 AM

The future of the Gates Foundation could depend on the financial terms of the divorce, which is still unknown. Read more »

Bill and Melinda Gates to divorce, but charitable foundation to remain

Eric M. Johnson and Alexandra Ulmer, Reuters
Updated as of May 04 12:46 PM

Billionaire benefactors Bill and Melinda Gates, co-founders of one of the world's largest private charitable foundations, filed for divorce on Monday after 27 years of marriage but pledged to continue their philanthropic work together. Read more »

Bill Gates says world should be back to normal by end-2022 due to vaccines: Polish media

Reuters
Posted at Mar 25 04:32 PM

The world should be back to normal by the end of 2022 thanks to COVID-19 vaccines, Bill Gates said in an interview for Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza and television broadcaster TVN24. Read more »

Florida teen pleads guilty to hacking Twitter accounts of Biden, celebrities

Reuters
Posted at Mar 17 04:02 PM

The Florida teenager accused of being behind the hack of celebrity Twitter accounts last year has pleaded guilty in the state's 13th Judicial Circuit Court in Tampa and agreed to serve 3 years in juvenile prison. Read more »

Bill Gates says Tokyo Olympics' fate depends on vaccine roll-out: Kyodo

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 27 06:01 PM

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said the Tokyo Olympics are "still possible" this year depending on the roll-out of coronavirus vaccinations, Japan's Kyodo News reported on Wednesday. Read more »

Tesla set to breach $500 billion market value, Musk now centibillionaire

Reuters
Posted at Nov 24 08:13 PM

Tesla Inc was set to breach $500 billion in market value on Tuesday, as its shares extended a meteoric rally that has seen the stock gain more than six times this year.   Read more »

Bill Gates, Microsoft founder and former richest man in the world, turns 65

Jillian Carpio, South China Morning Post
Updated as of Oct 28 12:24 PM

Here are 5 things to know about the tech entrepreneur and philanthropist: Read more »

Bill Gates: Rich world could be close to normal by late 2021 if vaccine works

Reuters
Posted at Oct 07 02:42 AM

LONDON - Rich countries could be back to close to normal by late 2021 if a COVID-19 vaccine works, is ready soon and distributed properly at scale, billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates said on Tuesday. Read more »

Bill Gates Sr. who guided billionaire son’s philanthropy dies at 94

Robert D. McFadden, The New York Times
Posted at Sep 16 02:58 PM

Bill Gates Sr., a lawyer and the father of Microsoft’s co-founder, who stepped in when appeals for charity began to overwhelm his billionaire son and started what became the world’s largest philanthropy, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, died on Monday at his beach home on Hood Canal, in the Seattle area. He was 94.   Read more »

Bill Gates offers grim global health report, and some optimism

Donald G. McNeil Jr., The New York Times
Posted at Sep 15 12:41 PM

The coronavirus pandemic has scorched away years of work: More families are in dire poverty, malnutrition is increasing, and far fewer children are getting immunized, according to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.    Read more »

Twitter hack may have had another mastermind: A 16-year-old

Nathaniel Popper, The New York Times
Updated as of Sep 02 10:34 AM

On Tuesday, federal agents served the teenager with a search warrant and scoured the Massachusetts home where he lives with his parents, said one of the people involved in the operation. A spokesman for the FBI confirmed a search warrant had been executed at the address.   Read more »

Facebook's Zuckerberg joins 'centibillionaires' club: Forbes

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 27 10:29 PM

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has risen to number 4 on the list of the world's richest people with a net worth of $103.1 billion, Forbes said. Read more »

Jeff Bezos becomes first man worth over $200 billion: Forbes

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Aug 27 06:04 PM

The founder and CEO of e-commerce behemoth Amazon is now worth $200 billion, cementing his claim to being the richest person in the world, Forbes said.  Read more »

Bill Gates denies conspiracy theories he created virus outbreak

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jul 24 01:08 PM

Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates on Thursday pushed back against some of the conspiracy theories spreading online accusing him of creating the coronavirus outbreak.   Read more »

Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, others hit in major hack

Glenn Chapman, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jul 16 12:06 PM

SAN FRANCISCO (UPDATE) - The official Twitter accounts of Apple, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and others were hijacked on Wednesday by scammers trying to dupe people into sending cryptocurrency bitcoin, in a massive hack. Read more »

Google, Gates Foundation join digital payments initiative

Agence France-Presse
Posted at May 07 06:43 AM

A new nonprofit charity unveiled plans Wednesday to promote digital payments for people outside the financial system, with support from Google and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Read more »

Bill and Melinda Gates are pouring the resources of their foundation into COVID-19

ANCX
Updated as of May 03 08:15 PM

Plus, South Africa has allowed its citizens to exercise, and New Zealand is continuing along its first week out of strict lockdown. BY JACS T. SAMPAYAN Read more »

TikTok, Gates pledge $20 million to help Africa tackle COVID-19

Reuters
Posted at Apr 29 07:07 PM

The social media platform TikTok and the philanthropic Gates Foundation donated $10 million each on Wednesday to the vaccine alliance GAVI to help fund efforts to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa. Read more »