Bill Gates has frugal tastes. Asked to name his luxuries, he lists DVDs, books and takeaway burgers. It is hard, however, to think that any fast-food outlet would get rich on Gates’s custom. During a long list of engagements beginning well before dawn, he consumes nothing but cans of diet cola. For America’s wealthiest citizen, austerity is relative. The retinue of staff and the private jet hint at a fortune said to be approaching £40 billion. As he told pupils at a Continue Reading

  Steve Jobs has been named the second greatest innovator of all time, behind Thomas Edison, in the 2012 Lemelson-MIT Invention Index. The data comes from a survey asking 1,010 Americans ages 16 – 25 to identify the greatest innovator of all time. The majority of surveyed young Americans – 52% – chose Edison as the greatest innovator. 24% chose Jobs, followed by Alexander Bell, Marie Curie and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, who received 3% of the votes. Sadly no one even mentioned Continue Reading

Microsoft founder and former CEO Bill Gates is well known for his philanthropic efforts via the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. According to the below infographic, he has given $28 Billion to charity since 2007, which is 48% of his net-worth. He and his wife's focus has focused on eradicating Malaria, helping third-world countries grow rice, and a crusade to end Polio, which was incredibly eradicated from India earlier this month for the first time in history. Lets see the impressive post Continue Reading

We earlier reported that child prodigy Arfa Karim, the worlds youngest Microsoft Certified Professional record holder was in critical condition as she had a epileptic seizure and cardiac arrest putting her into coma. Chairman of Microsoft and billionaire Bill Gates has made a contact with the parents of Arfa Karim for her treatment, Geo News has reported. According to father of Arfa, Amjab Karim Randhawa, Bill Gates telephoned him and expressed his wish about Arfa's treatment in the US. Continue Reading

The Energy Sector is the new Microsoft for Bill Gates and today the Worlds 2nd richest man is talking with China to jointly develop a new and safer kind of nuclear reactor by his company TerraPower. "The idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very little waste,  Huge amounts of depleted uranium, useless to today’s reactors, already exist in stockpiles around the world, TerraPower is having very good discussions with CNNC and various people in the Chinese government," Unlike Continue Reading

The authorized biographer of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson, came on 60 Minutes yesterday and revealed some interesting things about Jobs. Tomorrow being officially released, the Official biography of Steve Jobs, some excerpts have already spun of on the web such as “Mr. Jobs told Mr. Isaacson that he was either going to be one of the first ‘to outrun a cancer like this’ or be among the last ‘to die from it,” “None of us has any idea how long we’re gong Continue Reading

At TED2010, Bill Gates unveils his vision for the world's energy future, describing the need for "miracles" to avoid planetary catastrophe and explaining why he's backing a dramatically different type of nuclear reactor. The necessary goal? Zero carbon emissions globally by 2050. I believe that the idea is right, but the countries which can afford to promote nuclear entrepreneurship can help build companies to help get to that 0 point. Below is the video of his talk at TED. Leave Continue Reading