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June 14, 2020

Tech

Sony finally reveals the PlayStation 5's design and its exclusive games

Sony has given gamers a first look at the design of its next console as well as some of the titles it will play.

May 03, 2020

People

‘Bill Gates seeks to microchip humanity!’ Russian Oscar-winning director pushes vaccine conspiracy… loosely-based on REAL patent

Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov claims billionaire Bill Gates might be seeking to implant humanity with microchips under the guise of vaccination, seeking to control people and ultimately “solve” overpopulation.

April 30, 2020

Business

US blacklists five Amazon foreign websites

Five of online retail giant Amazon’s foreign websites have been placed on a blacklist by the Trump administration.

April 23, 2020

Tech

Facebook release Gaming app for Android early amid COVID-19 pandemic

The world’s biggest social media platform has rushed out a new app to take advantage of the video game streaming market against Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

Facebook's new gaming app. Picture: FacebookSource:Supplied

April 18, 2020

World

Microsoft’s Bill Gates targeted by social media mobs after coronavirus response, WHO comments

The Microsoft founder’s Instagram comments turned into a war zone after a seemingly innocuous post praising health care workers was hijacked.

The post was a short video of Gates hanging a sign thanking healthcare workers.Source:Instagram

April 05, 2020

Society

Gates says 'massive’ fatalities avoidable

Microsoft founder Bill Gates has called the coronavirus pandemic a “nightmare scenario”, but was optimistic the number of fatalities could be reduced.

Bill Gates warned us about the threat of a global pandemic but says we can learn lessons from this one. Picture: AFPSource:AFP

March 14, 2020

Business

Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft board to focus on philanthropy

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from the company's board to spend more time on philanthropic activities.

November 14, 2019

Tech

Microsoft's Surface Pro X Is Pretty But Not Ready for Primetime

Microsoft doesn’t include a keyboard with the $999 Surface Pro X, considering it (and the Surface Slim Pen) optional.

October 25, 2019

Tech

Microsoft Wins $10 Billion Pentagon Cloud Contract, Beating Amazon

Other, smaller cloud rivals like IBM and Oracle were kicked out earlier in the process, which has been contentious and delayed.

October 25, 2019

People

Jeff Bezos to lose status as world’s richest man as Amazon stock tumbles

Bezos overtook Gates on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index in October 2017, in part because Gates has donated tens of billions to philanthropic causes.

July 14, 2019

Tech

Microsoft chairman John Thompson explains why CEO Satya Nadella is poised to win the cloud wars

He had to downgrade the importance of Microsoft's flagship products: Windows and Office. And he had to overhaul the company's culture to make it happen.

June 24, 2019

Tech

Bill Gates claims his ‘greatest mistake’ was not beating Android

The fate of Microsoft's mobile efforts still bothers the company's founder.

May 22, 2019

Tech

Windows 10 May 2019 Update: the 10 best new features

Windows Sandbox, a new light theme, and more

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge

October 15, 2018

Tech

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, is dead at 65

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella called Allen's contributions "indispensable."

Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft, in New York, Jan. 31, 2014. (Beatrice de Gea/The New York Times)

August 21, 2018

Tech

Microsoft claims win over 'Russian political hackers'

Russian attempts to launch cyber-attacks against US conservative groups have been thwarted, Microsoft says.

GETTY IMAGES / A Russian hacking group known as Fancy Bear is accused of trying to disrupt the US midterm elections

July 21, 2018

Tech

How Microsoft could become a $1 trillion company

Analysts recognized that Microsoft is winning more high-value Azure deals and improving the cloud's gross margin.
One analyst suggested the company's cloud transition is proving to be additive to its legacy products.