No one's actually suggesting Bill Gates was gently fondling himself while shaking hands with South Korea's lady president Geun Hye Park, but his hand-in-pocket stance has caused massive offence due to breaking politeness rules in the country. Read More >>
Featured comment by EddyCJ:
"But I'm saying that what he's doing wouldn't be acceptable here either.
If you were shaking hands with the British PM, you'd damn well make sure yo..." More »
Back in 1981, Bill Gates and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen pulled of an audacious feat: they licensed MS-DOS to IBM, but in a deal that saw them retain entire control of the software. To mark the occasion, the pair were photographed amid a sea of contemporary computers—and now they've recreated the image. Read More >>
Condoms are a life-saving piece of tech, and for being little more than uninflated latex balloons, they do their job pretty well if you wear them. That's the part that Bill Gates is working on. No, he's not going around as a one-man condom-police army, but he is offering $100,000 to anyone who can make a condom less of a bummer to wear. Read More >>
Featured comment by Jamie:
"I unfortunately missed this, however reading through the entire thread only made me respect Bill more. Such a great guy and a really funny sense of hu..." More »
By 1997 E.piphany was a fast growing startup with customers, revenue and something approaching a repeatable business model. Somewhere that year we decided to professionalise our logo (you should have seen the first one.) With a massive leap of creativity we decided that it should it should have our company name and the letter "E" with a swoop over it. Read More >>
Featured comment by Piercy:
"crap. super fail.
This rather:
As to confusion btwn th two products, it is hard for m to
undrstand why somon would confus a $250,000 ntrpris s..." More »
Larry Ellison, the sixth richest man in the world, has just bought 98 per cent of Lanai, the sixth largest island in Hawaii. All the other kids at the billionaires club must have been bullying Ellison over his private island credentials, because his newly purchased chunk of America is 1000 times bigger than Branson's puny piece of off-shore real estate, that'll show 'em. Read More >>
The first game to ever feature on a PC, co-written by Bill Gates, was Donkey, a driving game in which you had to avoid donkeys. For years, it's been missing from your life, but don't worry: now you can get it on iOS. Read More >>
What do you do when you've run out of things to spend money on, and everyone already uses your software? How about developing a nuclear plant with China? Sure! Bill Gates is doing just that, the AP reports. For science? Read More >>
Featured comment by ThisIsNotAUsername:
""Stripping human oversight from a nuclear reactor doesn’t sound like a lesson learned."
You are aware that human overriding of safety measures was ..." More »
That Bill Gates, he's such a joker. Apparently you shouldn't bother attempting to be a billionaire like him; after a million, it's pretty much the same. I think Roman Abramovich might disagree, what with his frigate-sized yachts, but we get you Bill -- a packet of Walkers is still only 50p. [GeekWire] Read More >>
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