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Byline: Lucy Mangan Star Rating: 3 stars 'In 2022 AI woke up.' 'We are building something -- wisely or not -- way smarter than us'. 'It still needs human collaboration. [...]

Byline: Charlie English Houston, we have a billionaire problem. There are 2,781 individuals in the world worth more than a billion dollars, according to Forbes, and together these people have [...]

Byline: Mariam Amini Butter made from air instead of cows? A California-based startup claims to have worked out a complex process that eliminates the need for the animals while making [...]

Byline: Kari Paul A US jury has begun deliberating the fate of British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch in a corporate fraud trial that began in March, as a years-long saga [...]

Byline: Lucy Knight Bill Gates has announced that he will be telling his 'origin story' in a memoir due to be published next year. Source Code: My Beginnings will cover [...]

Byline: Kari Paul and agencies Melinda French Gates said on Monday she would step down as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world's biggest private [...]

Byline: Sam Wolfson Things have come a long way since the 2004 Guardian article credited with coining the term 'podcast'. That piece describes a new format that combines 'the intimacy [...]

Byline: Jacob Uitti America has long obsessed over celebrity and the quest for fame. Thirty years ago, millions of moviegoers got to see that desire up close thanks to the [...]

Byline: Amrit Dhillon in New Delhi For one of India's richest families, a wedding is not just a wedding -- it's a spectacle designed to dazzle even the world's wealthiest [...]

Byline: Sandra Laville Environment correspondent Twelve of the world's wealthiest billionaires produce more greenhouse gas emissions from their yachts, private jets, mansions and financial investments than the annual energy emissions [...]

Byline: Maya Yang The convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein appeared to threaten Bill Gates and tried to blackmail the multi-billionaire over his extramarital affair with a Russian bridge player, according [...]

Byline: Mark Sweney As Mike Lynch adjusts to life confined to a court-approved address in San Francisco, watched by armed guards as he awaits trial for criminal fraud, the tech [...]

Byline: Hollie Richardson, Jack Seale, Graeme Virtue and Simon Wardell Amol Rajan Interviews Bill Gates 7.30pm, BBC Two 'It's strange to be an old person; I don't think of myself [...]

Byline: Oliver Milman Bill Gates has led a new $12m investment in an Australian company that is aiming to feed seaweed to cows in order to reduce the planet-heating emissions [...]

Byline: Peter Hannam The world will be lucky to avoid 2.5C of heating, but emerging technology may help avert even worse, Bill Gates has told a Sydney audience. The US [...]

Byline: Tracy McVeigh The figures are bad, progress has stalled and all the trends that had been building hope in the world becoming a fairer place are showing sharp about-turns. [...]

Byline: Arwa Mahdawi Billionaires shouldn't exist. I am firmly of the opinion that all billionaires are policy failures and their very existence is immoral. That said, if I accidentally happened [...]

Byline: Maya Yang Bill Gates has responded to allegations of an extramarital affair on the first anniversary of the joint announcement that he and Melinda French Gates were getting divorced. [...]

Byline: The Observer In a 2015 Ted talk, Bill Gates claimed : 'If anything kills over 10 million people over the next few decades, it's most likely to be a [...]

Byline: Tory Shepherd Andrew Forrest says he isn't after power. He didn't aim to become wealthy. The 27.2 billion dollar man just 'wants to leave the world a better place'. [...]

Byline: Maya Yang Melinda French Gates, co-founder of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will no longer be pledging the majority of her wealth to the philanthropic organization. According to [...]

Byline: Guardian staff and agencies A tiny city in the top US coalmining state of Wyoming is set to become the home of an experimental nuclear power project backed by [...]

Byline: Ian Sample Science editor A global research effort worth tens of billions of dollars is needed to ensure the world is better prepared for the next pandemic, which could [...]

Byline: Rupert Neate The UK government has announced plans to launch a £400m package of investment alongside the US billionaire Bill Gates to boost the development of new green technologies. [...]

Byline: David Smith in Washington The place was Dubai. The star was Tina Turner. 'As the American pop legend belted out Simply the Best,' write authors Simon Clark and Will [...]

Byline: Robyn Vinter A group of global philanthropists, including Bill Gates, have pledged £93.5m to help cover the shortfall left by the UK government's cuts to foreign aid. After the [...]

Byline: Miles Brignall Can you please ask Microsoft how it can possibly quote £427 to fix the webcam in my Surface laptop ? My only option to get it working [...]

Byline: Martin Pengelly in New York Melinda Gates reportedly began exploring options for divorce from Bill Gates almost two years ago, around the time the world's fourth-richest man was revealed [...]

Byline: Adrian Horton Jimmy Kimmel Bill Gates and his wife Melinda, who have a combined fortune of at least $134bn, announced their divorce on Monday after 27 years of marriage. [...]

Byline: Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent Melinda Gates, a philanthropist and campaigner for female empowerment, could be about to become the world's second-richest woman, with a fortune estimated at $73bn. In [...]

Byline: Oliver Milman and Dominic Rushe The latest must-have for America's ultra-rich isn't another mega yacht or space program -- it's a plan to save the world from the climate [...]

Byline: Kari Paul An 18-year-old hacker who pulled off a massive heist in 2020, infiltrating several high profile Twitter accounts to solicit bitcoin transactions, has agreed to serve three years [...]

Byline: Gordon Brown Bill Gates has changed our lives through his Microsoft software; he has improved countless lives through his foundation's work to eliminate polio, TB and malaria; and now [...]

Byline: Emma Brockes Bill Gates appears via video conference -- Microsoft Teams, not Zoom, obviously -- from his office in Seattle, a large space with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking Lake Washington. [...]

Byline: Bill Gates There are two numbers you need to know about climate change. The first is 51bn. The other is zero. Fifty-one billion is how many tons of greenhouse [...]

Byline: Lucy Campbell and Emma Brockes The world is not lacking rich men with big ideas, Bill Gates has acknowledged. But having pumped $100m into Covid research, the Microsoft billionaire [...]

Byline: Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent Bill Gates has joined a £3bn bidding war to buy the world's largest private jet operator just as he prepares to publish his new book [...]

Byline: Julia Kollewe Elon Musk has toppled Bill Gates as the world's second-richest person, just a week after the Tesla co-founder overtook Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg to become the third-richest. Driven [...]

Byline: Mark Sweney Mark Zuckerberg's fortune has passed $100bn (£76bn) for the first time, adding him to an exclusive club of the world's centibillionaires, after Facebook's shares surged on news [...]

Byline: Chris McGreal On the surface, it is a classic tale of whistleblowing. A brave insider claiming to lay bare corporate power corrupting the US government. A truth teller courageously [...]

Byline: Rebecca Smithers Bill Gates has ordered the world's first hydrogen-powered superyacht, worth an estimated £500m ($644m) and boasting an infinity pool, helipad, spa and gym. The billionaire co-founder of [...]

Byline: Jillian Ambrose Bill Gates is backing a new venture which aims to turn sunlight into a source of heat exceeding 1,000C that could help replace fossil fuels. The world's [...]

Byline: Michael Sainato Sanitation workers for Republic Services, the second-largest sanitation company in the US, are going on strike amid new union contract negotiations with workers in 10 cities around [...]

Byline: Tracy McVeigh The ongoing trade battle between the US and China poses a major threat to efforts to tackle inequality and poverty, according to billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates. In [...]

Byline: Alison Flood What does every college graduate need? According to Bill Gates, it's a compendium of statistics. This summer, the software billionaire is set to give a copy of [...]

Byline: David Smith in Washington Bill Gates, the billionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, has claimed Donald Trump twice asked him the difference between HIV and HPV and knew a 'scary' amount [...]

Byline: Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent As the world's rich and powerful pack their suitcases for the World Economic Forum in Davos later this month, they might throw in a book. [...]

Byline: Alex Hern The Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has waded into the row between Apple and the FBI, arguing that the government agency is right to demand co-operation from Silicon [...]

Byline: Staff and agencies The British chancellor, George Osborne, and the Microsoft founder, Bill Gates, have unveiled a plan to spend billions to defeat 'the world's deadliest killer' malaria. Osborne [...]

Byline: Andy Beckett Ten years ago, when the Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates was midway through his startling metamorphosis from monopolistic software magnate to possibly the world's most admired philanthropist, he [...]