Bill Gates

This Bill Gates-backed solar tech could help finally decarbonize heavy industry

Using mirrors to concentrate solar power isn’t new, but now the tech can push temperatures high enough to be used for manufacturing things such as steel and cement.

Bill Gates wants to hack photosynthesis

A new video highlights some efforts Gates is funding to make plants grow faster.

In an era of distractions, Microsoft wants AI to be your coworker

The company is aiming to adapt its productivity suite to a short-attention-span world, bringing years of research into products like PowerPoint, Outlook, and Excel.

Bill Gates says we need to focus on the places where global progress is lagging

In the Gates Foundation’s annual look at the progress on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, the philanthropist looks at the gaps between areas in the developing world that are improving and those that are lagging behind.

Bill Gates and Ban Ki-moon: Investing in climate solutions could generate $7.1 trillion

They want to invest $1.8 trillion over the next decade in climate adaptation—and see the potential for enormous gains.

Will Netflix pull its Bill Gates docuseries after the latest news about his ties to Jeffrey Epstein?

The Netflix docuseries ‘Inside Bill’s Brain’ purports to tell us how the Microsoft cofounder and philanthropist Bill Gates thinks. Is it now tainted by new revelations about Gates’s ties to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein?

Bill Gates explains why he’s backing companies that change how we build

The production of materials like steel, cement, plastic, glass, and aluminum causes enormous emissions, but it’s not going to stop being necessary. Gates wants to change how we make them.

Why Bill Gates learned to cook a barbecue chicken

He’s taking a lesson from Washington’s teacher of the year, who uses cooking to teach math and science while making sure his students don’t go hungry.

The hidden pay gap no one talks about: being left-handed

Bill Gates thinks Steve Jobs was a wizard

This is Bill Gates’s “greatest mistake ever”

Bill Gates says to read these 5 books to change your perspective on a world in crisis

From an in-depth look at nations in upheaval to capitalism, Gates’s annual summer book recommendations will make you confront the ideas of crisis and disruption.

MIT just cracked open an historic time capsule–here’s what was inside

Buried in 1999, the capsule contained the 1992 proposal for the World Wide Web developed by Tim Berners-Lee–and Microsoft’s first product.

Bill Gates isn’t scared of sharks, but he wants nothing to do with mosquitoes

It’s the philanthropist’s annual Mosquito Week.

Bill Gates thinks these 5 agricultural hacks can help stop climate change

The Microsoft founder and philanthropist explains why he’s invested in groundbreaking solutions from engineered microbes to special food coatings.

How Bill Gates ended up eating pizza rolls on YouTube

YouTube star Mark Rober’s latest video features the philanthropist talking about clean water, making the case for global aid, and trying a few melty snacks. Here’s how the collaboration happened.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “We should be excited about automation”

In a talk at SXSW, the New York Congresswoman notes that automation is a net positive when the government offers a social safety net.

Bill and Melinda Gates want to surprise you

In their latest annual letter, the philanthropic couple explain some of their big revelations from the last year of giving.

Why you should surround yourself with more books than you’ll ever have time to read

An overstuffed bookcase (or e-reader) says good things about your mind.