Bill Gates leaves Microsoft’s board
Bill Gates has stepped down from the board of Microsoft to spend more time on his philanthropic endeavors, the company announced Friday afternoon. Though he will remain technology advisor to… Read more »
Category: Bill Gates
Well, Bill Gates is never going to buy a Tesla now
Elon Musk is not one to mince words, but he may have just lost a potential customer because of a cutting tweet. That customer is renowned big deal Bill Gates,… Read more »
Will the future of work be ethical?
Greg Epstein Contributor Greg M. Epstein is the Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and MIT, and the author of the New York Times bestselling book Good Without God. Described as a… Read more »
Heliogen’s new tech could unlock renewable energy for industrial manufacturing
Last Monday a group of millionaires and billionaires took a trip to an industrial site in Lancaster, Calif. to witness the achievement of what could represent a giant leap forward… Read more »
The MIT Media Lab controversy and getting back to ‘radical courage’, with Media Lab student Arwa Mboya
People win prestigious prizes in tech all the time, but there is something different about The Bold Prize. Unless you’ve been living under a literal or proverbial rock, you’ve probably… Read more »
What’s Bill Gates’ worst fear? Netflix’s new docuseries will try to figure him out
Next month, Netflix will release a three-part documentary series called “Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates,” in which Davis Guggenheim (director of “An Inconvenient Truth” and “He Named Me Malala”)… Read more »
Bill Gates on making “one of the greatest mistakes of all time”
At a recent event hosted for founders by the venture firm Village Global, one of its most prominent investors, Bill Gates, sat down with Eventbrite cofounder and CEO Julia Hartz… Read more »
Transportation weekly: Nuro dreams of autonomous lattes, what is a metamaterial, Volvo takes the wheel
Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. We love the reader feedback. Keep it coming. Never heard of TechCrunch’s Transportation Weekly? Read… Read more »
Gates-backed Lumotive upends lidar conventions using metamaterials
Pretty much every self-driving car on the road, not to mention many a robot and drone, uses lidar to sense its surroundings. But useful as lidar is, it also involves… Read more »
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says labor should not fear automation
It’s impossible to discuss the seismic shift toward automation without a conversation about job loss. Opponent of these technologies criticize a displacement that could some day result wide scale unemployment… Read more »
Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos-backed fund invests in a global geothermal energy project developer
Breakthrough Energy Ventures, the investment firm financed by billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Jack Ma that invests in companies developing technologies to decarbonize society, is investing $12.5 million… Read more »
With $90 million in funding, the Ginkgo spinoff Motif joins the fight for the future of food
Continuing its quest to become the Amazon Web Services for biomanufacturing, href=”http://ginkgobioworks.com/”>Ginkgo Bioworks has launched a new spinoff called Motif Ingredients with $90 million in funding to develop proteins that… Read more »
How to read fiction to build a startup
“The book itself is a curious artefact, not showy in its technology but complex and extremely efficient: a really neat little device, compact, often very pleasant to look at and… Read more »
Oil and gas giants Chevron and Occidental are backing tech to combat carbon emissions
Carbon Engineering, a Canadian company developing technology to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and process it for use in enhanced oil recovery or in the creation of new synthetic… Read more »
Village Global’s accelerator introduces founders to Bill Gates, Reid Hoffman, Eric Schmidt and more
Village Global is leveraging its network of tech luminaries to support the next generation of entrepreneurs. The $100 million early-stage venture capital firm, which counts as limited partners (LPs) Microsoft’s Bill Gates, Facebook’s… Read more »
All the day’s developments in the UK Covid-19 crisis Boris Johnson to warn: tougher lockdown may be necessary Coronavirus patients in UK intensive care have 50% survival rate Coronavirus –… Read more »
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut halt non-essential travel; global deaths pass 30,000 with one-third in Italy Coronavirus latest: at a glance Spain’s daily death toll rises again while Italy… Read more »
