Bill Gates

Death of business travel has been greatly exaggerated

Many corporate executives were quick to abandon video calls and get back on the road

Multiple red flags are not yet slowing the generative AI train

Critics claim the technology carries alarming risks and needs better governance

Breda O’Brien: Big Tech is now the global monarch, answerable to nobody

An unholy alliance between Big Tech, Big Finance and the Chinese Communist Party has allowed the values of Silicon Valley to dominate the planet

Bill Gates: ‘I’ve had people yelling at me that I’m putting chips into people. They really exist’

The Microsoft founder fears generosity to Africa could be affected by the ‘costs and distractions’ of the war in Ukraine — and by Covid conspiracy theories

Bill Gates predicts global economic slowdown

Event to be triggered by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and fallout from Covid-19 pandemic

Why is Elon Musk – skittish, visionary renegade – buying Twitter?

Influential though it may be in political and media circles, it doesn’t make any money

What will Twitter be like under Elon Musk?

Cantillon: Twitter is the platform we love to hate and the Tesla CEO is equally polarising

Why did Jeffrey Epstein buy one of the best cellos in the world?

The powerful sexual predator took many secrets with him, including one prized cello

Twitter accepts Elon Musk’s $44bn takeover offer

Twitter shareholders will receive $54.20 in cash for each share

MacKenzie Scott: How the former Mrs Bezos became a philanthropist like no other

Since divorcing Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2019, Scott has been ‘emptying the safe’

Ireland’s nine billionaires increased collective wealth by €10.8bn last year

Stripe founders’ gains recognised on Forbes list of 2,668 people in ‘three comma club’

Global market for ‘cultivated meat’ could reach $25bn by 2030

Scientists are trying to find a commercially viable way to transform animal stem cells into marbled steak or sushi-grade salmon

German strain of anti-vaccine sentiment proving highly resistant to change

Munich Letter: It’s unlikely the city’s protesting ‘walkers’ will disappear any time soon

Tech tycoon Mike Lynch signals intention to appeal HP ruling

Irish-born businessman faces threat of extradition to US over Autonomy deal

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation plans massive giving expansion

Annual spending at philanthropic organisation jumps to $6.7bn

A caveat for winter Olympians – beware of Chinese meat

Doping watchdog issues warning ‘only to eat at places given the all-clear by event organisers’

In a Word . . . Nigh

It’s the end of the world as we know it – but then, it always has been

Conor Pope: I told the world about my vaccine cert. It wasn’t long before the abuse started

Opinion: I am a liar, a fool and a sheep, said those who disapproved of my vaccine message

Teen Daze – Interior: Ambient music you can dance to

Canadian producer Jamison Isaak channels huge influence of French dance music

Helen McEntee and Sally Rooney had a good 2021. Eoghan Harris and Dolores Cahill did not

Who had a good year? Rachael Blackmore for one. Who didn’t? Stephen Donnelly, arguably

Edible transport tickets, @Metaverse and Time people of the year

Planet Business: Chocolate inequality and banishing Christmas stress the German way

Breda O’Brien: Being obscenely wealthy is not proof of genius

Oireachtas time is given to a lottery while our rotten system of inequality is ignored

Can Russell Crowe help clean up Bangkok’s terrible wiring?

A tweet from the actor has sparked a call to action by Thailand’s prime minister

Jeffrey Epstein’s shadow looms over start of Ghislaine Maxwell’s US trial

Maxwell is charged with alleged sex crimes, conspiracy and perjury related to Epstein

Cop26: A crowded blue zone, ‘big mistake’ no-shows and more net-zero pledges

Planet Business: Stay only as long as necessary

Retrofitting bill could come to average of €56,000 per home

Official estimate puts total cost of updating half a million homes at up to €28bn

Queen Elizabeth urged by doctors to rest at least two weeks

Queen to carry out ‘light, desk-based duties’ but avoid official events or ceremonies

Unvaccinated footballers are putting lives at risk. Is it time to stop picking them?

Maybe it’s time for sports governing bodies to come down harder on vaccine hesitancy

Sean Moncrieff: An act of kindness that proves it’s the messiness of the world that gives us hope

Twitter is a cesspool of hatred and delusion but acts of kindness are common

Jennifer O’Connell: final breath volte-faces of #covidiots serve as cautionary tales

Stories feed something ugly in our psyches, the idea that there are good and bad victims of the virus

Facebook enters the metaverse, and Olympics near the finish line

Planet Business: Dating apps rake in the dosh, and jabs become a job requirement

If the pandemic tells us how the world will deal with global warming, we’re in big trouble

Can world powers learn lessons from this event and apply them to global warming?

Bill Gates: The New York Times investigated the tech mogul’s behaviour. This is what it found

Melinda Gates concerned about Jeffrey Epstein meetings and handling of sexual-harassment claim

Microsoft investigated Gates over alleged involvement with female employee

Software giant reviewed matter with the help of an outside law firm

What we know about Xanadu 2.0, Bill and Melinda Gates’s $131m private estate

With the couple divorcing, what will happen to their lakefront property in the Seattle suburbs?

Glorious warrior or racist tyrant? France battles over Napoleon’s legacy

Paris Letter: 200 years after his death, the emperor’s place in history is bitterly disputed

Beer could be twice as expensive south of NI Border – lobby

Seen & Heard: Banking on Pfizer; rules hurt investment; and Gates backs green cement

Post-pandemic firms face stark choice: digitise or die

Digital leaders can envisage a marketplace that doesn’t yet exist, says expert

Conspiracy theorist: ‘I have my own opinion on the whole thing. I research it’

Jean Murray says her family thinks she’s crazy for believing Covid-19 is a hoax

Biden welcomes Putin’s climate summit call for carbon dioxide removal

President praises Russian idea for capturing carbon from space as he calls for global collaboration

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