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Bill Gates took to LinkedIn over the weekend to celebrate one of the nicher holiday: World Toilet Day. And trust us, he's really in the spirit.

Science & Energy

Bill Gates Reflects on Drinking Product of Fecal Sludge

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bill Gates is frustrated with the state of the world. But most of all, he's frustrated with the role that distraction plays in our failure to meet goals.

Bill Gates Sounds Moderately Horrified by How Civilization Is Going

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Samsung worked with Bill Gates to invent a new kind of toilet that recycles and cleans waste and is better for the environment.

Bill Gates’ New Toilet Sets Your Poop on Fire

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Billionaire Bill Gates is sad about the world's current state of affairs — so he says he's donating virtually all of his personal wealth in order to fix it.

Bill Gates Says Sorry the World Isn’t Going So Great

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yesterday, Musk casually dismissed Bill Gates' claim that hydrogen power is the "Swiss Army Knife of decarbonization" — with just a laughing face emoji.

Elon Musk Shreds Bill Gates for Supporting Hydrogen Power

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Residents Furious When Bill Gates Swoops in to Buy Huge Amounts of Farmland

Science & Energy

Residents Furious When Bill Gates Swoops in to Buy Huge Amounts of Farmland

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Bill Gates really, really hates cryptocurrency, saying on Tuesday that virtual coins and their NFTs are "100 percent based on the Greater Fool Theory."

Bill Gates Ruthlessly Mocks NFTs as Crypto Market Collapses

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Billionaire Bill Gates says the economy is probably going to slow down and that bear investors are right to question inflation and federal interest rates.

Bill Gates Says He’s Quite Concerned About the Global Economy

By Lonnie Lee Hood

In a BBC interview the former world's richest man and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said he shouldn't have been friends with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

Bill Gates Says It Was a Bad Idea to Pal Around With Jeffrey Epstein

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, confirmed leaked text messages with Microsoft's Bill Gates are real. Musk discussed Gates' stock position.

Elon Musk Tells Bill Gates to Get Lost in Leaked Text Messages

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Jeffrey Epstein's legacy has extended far beyond his mysterious jailhouse death in 2019 — and it very much includes the breakup of Bill Gates' marriage.

Melinda Gates Slams Ex-Husband for Friendship With “Abhorrent” Jeffrey Epstein

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bill Gates told reporters risks of severe disease from Covid-19 have “dramatically reduced,” but that a future pandemic is a near certainty.

Bill Gates Says Yet Another Pandemic Is Coming

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Microsoft CEO Bill Gates and Berkshire Hathaway's Warren Buffet have chosen a tiny Wyoming city to build an experimental nuclear power plant in.

Bill Gates and Warren Buffet Are Building an Experimental Nuclear Plant in a Tiny City

By Tony Ho Tran

In 2008, Microsoft's top lawyer and top HR officer had to team up to warn Gates to stop hitting on a female employee via email.

Microsoft’s Top Lawyer Had to Tell Bill Gates to Stop Hitting on Employee

By Jon Christian

People close to the situation believe that Jeffrey Epstein tried to reveal his close ties to Bill Gates as a form of retaliation.

Bill Gates Associate Says He Fainted When Epstein Connection Was Revealed

By Dan Robitzski

Former employees and associates of Bill Gates are speaking up about the open secret that, despite his public persona, he's actually a horrible boss.

Bill Gates Was Reportedly Horrible to His Employees

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates' resignation from Microsoft came as the board was investigating him for an "inappropriate" relationship with a female Microsoft employee.

Bill Gates Reportedly Left Microsoft Board Amid Sex Allegations

By Jon Christian

Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer who for nine of Jeffrey Epstein's victims, called out Bill Gates for not sharing evidence on Epstein Ghislaine Maxwell.

Science & Energy

Lawyer Slams Bill Gates for Connections to Jeffrey Epstein

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates announced on Twitter that he and his wife Melinda are getting a divorce, but their work with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will continue.

Bill Gates, Who Wants to Geoengineer the Earth, Is Getting a Divorce

By Dan Robitzski

Futurism reported on Oxitec, a biotech company releasing millions of genetically engineered mosquitoes in Florida. It turns out that Bill Gates helped.

Science & Energy

Bill Gates Funded the Company Releasing Gene-Hacked Mosquitoes

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO Elon Musk didn't mince words in response to a blog post criticizing electric long-haul trucking penned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Elon Musk Deletes Meme Accusing Bill Gates of Vaccine Mind Control

By Tony Ho Tran

Bill Gates reportedly owns more farmland than anyone else in the United States. He recently tried to explain why, and it was a little hard to follow.

Bill Gates Attempts to Explain Why He Bought More Farmland Than Anyone Else in America

By Jon Christian

Microsoft founder and billionaire Bill Gates told The New York Times that Bitcoin is "not a great climate thing."

Bill Gates Says That Bitcoin Sucks

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates wants everyday Bitcoin investors to remember that Elon Musk can afford to cut and run, but they likely cannot.

Bill Gates: You Should Probably Not Follow Elon Musk ‘To The Moon’ On BTC

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates says that he doesn't really see the appeal of investing in rockets to Mars, saying money would be better spent on climate change and medicine.

Bill Gates Says That Going to Mars Is Silly

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates is coming down hard in favor of fake meats — and even recommending that every single "rich country" move away from real beef as soon as possible.

Bill Gates Says All Wealthy Nations Should Switch to Synthetic Beef

By Jon Christian

In a chat with Derek Muller's popular YouTube channel Veritasium, Bill Gates said that the world is facing two big threats: climate change and bioterrorism.

Bill Gates Says the Next Horrible Virus Could Be Engineered by Terrorists

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates, Amazon, and the U.K. government put millions into the hydrogen-powered plane startup ZeroAvia, which had a successful test flight in September.

Advanced Transport

Bill Gates Invests in Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Startup

By Dan Robitzski

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has dethroned Bill Gates to become the second-richest person in the world according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index.

Elon Musk Just Became the Second Richest Person in the World

By Victor Tangermann

In a new interview, Gates says he's still optimistic that a vaccine is on the way. But it's unlikely, he said, that there'll be one by the end of the year.

Bill Gates: Sorry, But It’s Unlikely There’ll Be a Vaccine This Year

By Jon Christian

Tesla CEO Elon Musk didn't mince words in response to a blog post criticizing electric long-haul trucking penned by Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Elon Musk Shreds Bill Gates For Insulting Electric Semi Trucks

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates says that the long wait times for coronavirus test results render the whole thing useless. Or, in his words, the tests are "garbage."

Bill Gates Called Most US Coronavirus Tests “Garbage”

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates urged Elon Musk to stay in his lane and stop spreading "outrageous" misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic.

Bill Gates Slams Elon Musk For Spouting COVID Misinformation

By Dan Robitzski

In a memo, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates wrote that the coronavirus pandemic "is like a world war, except in this case, we’re all on the same side."

Bill Gates: COVID Is Like a World War, Except for One Thing

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates suspects that there will be another major viral outbreak every 20 years. But also that we'll emerge from the current pandemic more prepared.

Bill Gates: There’s Gonna Be a Pandemic “Every 20 Years or So”

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates: US “Missed the Opportunity” to Prevent Catastrophe

Bill Gates: US “Missed the Opportunity” to Prevent Catastrophe

By Victor Tangermann

Microsoft co-founder and public health advocate Bill Gates has a gloomy message about the COVID-19 pandemic: We missed our chance to mitigate harm.

Bill Gates Is Pissed: “We Should’ve Done More” to Stop COVID-19

By Jon Christian

When Bill Gates announced that he had bought Porsche's Taycan electric car, Tesla CEO Elon Musk took to Twitter to disparage his fellow billionaire.

Elon Musk Disses Bill Gates

By Jon Christian

Dutch company Sinot denies reports that Bill Gates is buying Aqua, a $644 million hydrogen-powered yacht concept it designed.

Advanced Transport

That Story About Bill Gates Buying a $644 Million Yacht Is Fake

By Kristin Houser

Researchers have created an AI that can clone a person's voice, including their speech patterns — and it could make audio deepfakes harder to detect.

Artificial Intelligence

Alarming AI Clones Both a Person’s Voice and Their Speech Patterns

By Kristin Houser

A startup says it's building a futuristic facility that'll suck as much CO2 out of the atmosphere of every year as 40 million trees.

Renewable Energy

New Facility Aims to Capture 40 Million Trees’ Worth of CO2 Every Year

By Jon Christian

At least two startups are trying to combine lab grown meats and CRISPR to invent the next generation of lab-grown meat, according to Business Insider.

Health & Medicine

Bill Gates Backed Startup Is Using CRISPR to Grow Lab Meat

By Jon Christian

Bill Gates believes cancer vaccines are a breakthrough technology poise to change the world, according to a piece he penned for MIT Technology Review.

Bill Gates: Custom Cancer Vaccines Will Revolutionize Medicine

By Kristin Houser

Vicarious Surgical plans to create tiny robots that doctors can control via virtual reality to operate on patients remotely.

Virtual Reality

Bill Gates Funds Tiny Robot Surgeons That Operate Inside the Body

By Kristin Houser

An infographic shared by Bill Gates that suggests global poverty is falling presents a "completely wrong" narrative, according to one anthropologist.

Expert: Bill Gates Is “Completely Wrong” About Global Poverty

By Kristin Houser

Bill Gates' nuclear energy company, TerraPower, was building a Traveling-Wave Reactor near Beijing when the Department of Energy stepped in.

China Tariffs Blocked Bill Gates’ Plan for Safe Nuclear Power

By Dan Robitzski

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Bill Gates: U.S. Leaders Must Embrace Nuclear Energy

By Kristin Houser

During an interview with Axios, Bill Gates noted his concern that people focusing on renewables as the answer to climate change are missing the big picture.

Bill Gates: Wind and Solar Alone Can’t Fight Climate Change

By Kristin Houser

Supply and demand don't matter anymore. Bill Gates says that American politicians have failed to adjust to an economy based on software and code.

Bill Gates Says We Need New Economic Models That Take Tech Into Account

By Dan Robitzski

Bill Gates Just Announced a $12 Million Contest for a Universal Flu Vaccine

Health & Medicine

Bill Gates Just Announced a $12 Million Contest for a Universal Flu Vaccine

By Kristin Houser

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Bill Gates Warns Sillicon Valley of Technology’s Dangerous Potential

By Chelsea Gohd

Bill Gates Thinks Cancer Therapies Could Serve a Much Wider Purpose

Bill Gates Thinks Cancer Therapies Could Serve a Much Wider Purpose

By Kristin Houser

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Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates: Benefits of Robots, Healthcare AI Will Outweigh Pitfalls

Gates is investing in Alzheimer's research

Health & Medicine

Bill Gates Just Announced A $100 Million Initiative to Defeat Alzheimer’s

By Claudia Geib

Bill Gates Just Purchased an Enormous Amount of Land to Build His Own “Smart City”

Bill Gates Just Purchased an Enormous Amount of Land to Build His Own “Smart City”

By Chelsea Gohd

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Health & Medicine

Bill Gates: “Humanity Will See Its Last Case of Polio This Year”

Bill Gates Says We Shouldn’t Panic About Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

Bill Gates Says We Shouldn’t Panic About Artificial Intelligence

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Health & Medicine

Bill Gates: The World Could See a Record Number of HIV Infections

By Patrick Caughill

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Bill Gates and Richard Branson Invest in Lab-Grown Meat Startup

The Laser-Shooting Mosquito Zapper We’re Still Waiting For

Robots and Machines

The Laser-Shooting Mosquito Zapper We’re Still Waiting For

Bill Gates: Artificial Photosynthesis Can Produce Clean Fuel for the Cars of Tomorrow

Science & Energy

Bill Gates: Artificial Photosynthesis Can Produce Clean Fuel for the Cars of Tomorrow

MIT Professor Gives A Dire Warning to the U.S. About Funding Science

MIT Professor Gives A Dire Warning to the U.S. About Funding Science

Bill Gates: We Are Closer Than Ever Before to Totally Eradicating Polio

Health & Medicine

Bill Gates: We Are Closer Than Ever Before to Totally Eradicating Polio

Tech Experts Disagree Wildly on the Future Impact of AI

Artificial Intelligence

Tech Experts Disagree Wildly on the Future Impact of AI