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Bill Gates investment aims to tackle cow burps

Bill Gates' interest in battling climate change is well known, and his latest investment aims to help reduce methane emissions by tackling cow burps.
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Bill Gates doesn’t expect a coronavirus vaccine by the end of the year

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Bill Gates: U.S. coronavirus response is ‘one of the worst’ in the world

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Google to ban ads from appearing next to coronavirus conspiracy theories

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Here’s what Bill Gates says should be on your summer reading list

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The FDA has shut down a Bill Gates-backed coronavirus testing program

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Bill Gates is funding an at-home coronavirus testing program

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Bill Gates: ‘I wish I had done more’ to warn about coronavirus

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Bill Gates is ‘super-worried’ about a second wave of coronavirus

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Bill Gates: We need these 4 innovations to end coronavirus quarantines

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Digital Trends Live: Conspiracy theories, iPhone 12 leak, and more

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Bill Gates has become a top target for coronavirus conspiracy theories

Philanthropist and Microsoft founder Bill Gates has become the leading target of far-right conspiracy theories regarding the coronavirus pandemic.
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Bill Gates slams Trump’s decision to stop funding the World Health Organization

Bill Gates denounced President Trump's decision to withhold U.S. funding from the World Health Organization, calling the move "as dangerous as it sounds."
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Bill Gates says coronavirus has left the world ‘in uncharted territory’

Bill Gates has said many countries have responded poorly to coronavirus, and that they should have been more proactive in preparing for a disease epidemic.
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Bill Gates: Things can start returning to normal by June — if we ‘get our act together’

In a new interview, Bill Gates said that he expects things to open back up by end of May or early June, and that school will resume to normal in the fall.
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Bill Gates will gamble billions to make a potential coronavirus vaccine

Bill Gates told The Daily Show's Trevor Noah that the Gates Foundation is spending billions to manufacture factories for potential coronavirus vaccines.
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Bill Gates says mass shutdowns are needed to stop coronavirus spread

Bill Gates predicted coronavirus cases in the U.S. won't peak until at least late-April and warned ending shutdowns early could be disastrous.
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Bill Gates says the U.S. missed its chance to avoid a coronavirus shutdown

The Microsoft co-founder said that the United States should have started taking the coronavirus outbreak seriously and making preparations back in January. 
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5 key insights on coronavirus from Bill Gate’s Reddit AMA

Philanthropist Bill Gates took to Reddit to answer some questions about the COVID-19 outbreak during an Ask Me Anything session on the Coronavirus subreddit.
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Bill Gates is stepping down from Microsoft’s board

Bill Gates first stepped down as Microsoft CEO in 2000, then left his position as chairman in 2014. Now, he's leaving the board of the company he co-founded.
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Clean-energy startup backed by Bill Gates hopes to replace fossil fuels

A startup backed by Bill Gates has found a way to combine artificial intelligence and solar energy to create extreme heat, essentially replacing the need for fossil fuels. Heliogen used A.I.-powered mirrors that can generate extreme heat -- more than 1,800 degrees Fahrenheit -- for the first time commercially.
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Global Good wants to rid the world of deadly diseases with lasers and A.I.

Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures both invest money in Global Good, a program that brings together scientists from various backgrounds to tackle problems in the developing world, especially disease eradication. They try to find high-tech solutions target pneumonia, polio, and malaria.
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Bill Gates shows how the flu could kill more than 30 million people

Bill Gates and Larry Page are teaming up to bring an end to the flu once and for all. The Microsoft and Google co-founders pledged to give $12 million to researchers working to develop a universal flu vaccine. Gates released a simulation showing the virus' effects.
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Peek inside the outlandish mansions of tech titans, from Musk to Zuckerberg

It pays to be CEO of giant tech companies, and these mansions are proof. Jeff Bezos, Michael Dell, and other tech execs have huge homes all over the country. Check out our gallery of some of the biggest, most expensive homes on the planet owned by the tech giants of Silicon Valley and beyond.
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Samsung S9 smartphone to come in three — maybe four — versions?

We review the new Google Pixel Buds earbuds, upcoming Samsung S9 may be going small, Bill Gates buys big plot for smart city project.
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Bill Gates is building his own city, and he’s loading it with smart tech

Bill Gates' investment group purchased 24,800-acre development outside of Phoenix, Arizona to build a smart city.
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Bill Gates wishes he ditched the Ctrl, Alt, Delete command in early Windows

Bill Gates has express some regret that the Windows interrupt function of Ctrl, Alt, Delete needs two hands and wishes it was one key.

Netflix making the "Venn diagram of TV" with new shared profile feature

Netflix's Todd Yellin says the streaming behemoth is currently testing a feature for two people to share a profile based on shared tastes.
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Gifts and glitter galore: Bill Gates played Secret Santa to one Reddit user

When you're Bill Gates, you can really bring it when it comes to Christmas presents. He was once again a Reddit Secret Santa, and he did not disappoint.
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Smartphones were the wedge between Ballmer and Gates

After dominating the operating system space, moving to hardware proved a bit problematic for Microsoft leadership, leading to the departure of Steve Ballmer.
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Bill Gates says he’s ‘excited about chickens,’ and here’s why

He co-founded Microsoft, he's the richest man in the world, and, most surprisingly of all, he's "excited about chickens." But rather than leave it at that, Bill Gates would like you to know why.
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Microsoft considered $8B bid for Slack, but Bill Gates and Satya Nadella said no

Slack, the real-time communication platform, was close to receiving a bid from Microsoft that would have blown recent valuations out of the water.
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Samsung Galaxy S7 vs. LG G5: Which flagship phone belongs in your pocket?

We pit the Samsung S7 against the modular LG G5 to determine which flagship smartphone should land in your pocket later this year.