Play Podcast Coronavirus and the future of vaccines: Inside the quest to develop faster responses to epidemics Play As part of his work in global health, Bill Gates has warned for years about the potential for an unchecked… Read More
Play Podcast The hidden history of Microsoft and Facebook, and what it says about the social network’s future Play Could Microsoft’s renaissance give Facebook a blueprint for its own? That’s one of the questions I asked veteran tech journalist… Read More
‘No time to waste’: Bill Gates outlines actions to combat coronavirus now as well as future crises While governments and citizens across the globe prepare and react in assorted way to various stages of the coronavirus pandemic,… Read More
Billionaire beef: Elon Musk charged up over Bill Gates’ purchase of an electric Porsche over a Tesla Elon Musk seems unhappy about fellow uber rich person Bill Gates’ choice in vehicles. Gates revealed in an interview with… Read More
Bill Gates warns that coronavirus impact could be ‘very, very dramatic,’ outlines long-term solutions Bill Gates spoke with broad optimism about the potential for technology to address some of the globe’s biggest challenges, but… Read More
Hamburger expert Bill Gates tests plant-based meat, with Dick’s burgers as a scientific control Bill Gates knows burgers. When Microsoft moved from Albuquerque to the Seattle region back in the 1980s, the nearby Burgermaster… Read More
What Bill and Melinda Gates learned giving out $53.6B over 20 years, and what they’re doing next Over the past two decades, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given out $53.6 billion, most of it seeking… Read More
‘Game on!’: Bill Gates to team again with tennis great Roger Federer for charity match in Africa Looks like Bill Gates is going to get to show off his tennis skills again alongside two of the top… Read More
After-party at Jeff Bezos’ D.C. mansion attracts Bill Gates, Ivanka Trump and other notable guests Jeff Bezos opened the doors to his fancy mansion in Washington, D.C., over the weekend for an after-party that featured… Read More
Mind-blowing facts and more: Bill Gates shares his 7 favorite tweets after 10 years on Twitter “Hello world,” Bill Gates said when he joined Twitter and tweeted for the first time on Jan. 19, 2010. Ten… Read More
Bill Gates rings in 2020 with a call for higher taxes on the rich to help address wealth gap Bill Gates weighed in on the subject of taxes at various times throughout 2019. Should he be paying more? How… Read More
The decade when tech turned dark: Learning from the mistakes of the past 10 years The arrival of 2020 is a chance to look back on the past decade and what it has meant for… Read More
Bill Gates strikes again as Reddit Secret Santa, gifting books, LEGOs, Oreos and more to lucky user She wanted something in the mail other than bills. She got the ultimate gifts from a Bill instead. As in… Read More
Bill Gates reflects on what he read in 2019 and offers up 5 books for your holiday wish list In the recent Netflix documentary “Inside Bill’s Brain,” books are a constant for the Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist. We get… Read More
‘Big fan’ Bill Gates makes appearance in ‘Silicon Valley’ series finale as HBO comedy logs off “Silicon Valley” wrapped up six seasons on HBO on Sunday night with a series finale called “Exit Event” — and… Read More
Gates Foundation CEO stepping down from $47B philanthropy, handing reins to internal successor Sue Desmond-Hellmann, the physician and scientist who led the world’s largest philanthropy as CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates… Read More
Echodyne and Univ. of Washington assist DARPA with aerial drone surveillance test When the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency tested an “Aerial Dragnet” system for tracking drones over urban terrain last… Read More
Company backed by Bill Gates claims solar breakthrough, looks to replace fossil fuels in industrial plants A solar energy tech company founded by serial entrepreneur and inventor Bill Gross — and backed by investors including Microsoft… Read More
Bill Gates ‘willing to talk’ after Elizabeth Warren offers to explain her wealth tax Money talks. And talk of money gets people with money talking. That seems to be the case, at least on… Read More
Watch: Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates on Elizabeth Warren, billionaires, antitrust and space exploration Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates sat down for a candid and wide-ranging fireside chat Wednesday as part of the New York… Read More
What should you watch next on TV? Even Bill Gates seeks advice, so startup Likewise steps in to help Remember when people used to say, “There’s nothing good on TV”? That may still be the case, but man, there… Read More
University of Washington once again named world’s most innovative public university For the third year in a row, the University of Washington has won the title of the world’s most innovative… Read More
Gates Foundation and NIH commit $200M to make gene therapies cheaper The world’s most expensive drug, a treatment for spinal muscular atrophy made by Novartis, comes with a $2.1 million bill.… Read More
New York Times report reveals more connections between Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates met with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein multiple times starting in 2011, The New York Times… Read More
Geek on the Street: Who inspires you? Summit attendees point to tech leaders, family and others It was an inspiring first day at the 2019 GeekWire Summit. We heard Monday from leaders in technology, business, government,… Read More
Bill Gates lays out his predictions for global health during tribute to Stephen Hawking What’s the shape of global health to come? Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates issued two hopeful predictions for the year 2040… Read More
Review: Netflix documentary on Bill Gates reveals chaos, determination and love ‘Inside Bill’s Brain’ In his relentless pursuit to try to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems around sanitation, disease eradication and… Read More
Bill Gates: Breaking up Big Tech isn’t the answer Bill Gates believes calls to break up Big Tech are misguided. The Microsoft co-founder said that approach to mitigating the… Read More
Reports of personal or business ties between Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein ‘simply not true,’ rep says Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has become the latest big name to play an unwitting role in the Jeffrey Epstein saga,… Read More
Today on GeekWire: Netflix teases Bill Gates docuseries; indictment in Capital One hacking; simulating the big quake Anybody who knows Bill Gates knows his favorite food. Hamburgers, of course! But what about his biggest fear? That’s one of… Read More
