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Bill Gates’ origin story describes a life of privilege, exposing the DNA of some of the tech industry’s problems

Bill Gates, cofounder of Microsoft, is one of the world’s richest men. He is also a highly controversial figure.

The Conversation

First came the £3m museum heist, then the murder plot, court hears

They carried out a brazen museum heist before career criminal’s shooting, jurors told

The Independent UK

Murder plot accused stole Ming dynasty porcelain from Geneva museum, court told

Three men are accused of plotting to murder former cage fighter Paul Allen.

Evening Standard

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Ranking the 10 Best Announcer Calls From 2024 Football Season

Here are Sports Illustrated's best 10 moments in the broadcast booth across college football and the NFL in 2024.

Sports Illustrated

Brinks Mat robber shot in neck and paralysed in 'murder plot'

Paul Allen was involved in the Brinks Mat raid

Evening Standard

‘Sophisticated’ criminal convicted over £54m Securitas heist ‘shot twice in kitchen in planned attack’

Cagefighter Paul Allen has been left paralysed after being shot in the throat

The Independent UK

£54m Securitas robber shot in the neck at home, court told

Paul Allen was paralysed for life after shots were fired at his large detached rented home in Woodford Green, east London, in 2019.

Evening Standard

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Bill Gates says he got into every Ivy League school he applied to, but tailored a different 'persona' for each application: 'Each was a performance'

“I wanted the chance to see how I stacked up against the other brainy kids from a much wider pool than Lakeside,” Gates said.

Fortune

Source Code by Bill Gates review: the touching origin story of a tech titan

As I fire up the laptop to write this review, a company called Microsoft — or Micro-Soft as it started — asks me for an authorisation code for access to the computer. It is a timely reminder of just how embedded into the minutiae of our everyday existence is the…

Evening Standard

Bill Gates recalls tripping on LSD as a teen and joking with Steve Jobs about ‘getting the wrong batch’

Exclusive: Microsoft co-founder tells ‘The Independent’ he tried cannabis because he thought ‘maybe I would look cool’

The Independent UK

Microsoft founder Bill Gates explores the making of his internal operating system in new memoir

With his 70th birthday looming on this year’s horizon, Microsoft founder Bill Gates looked inward to open a window into the man behind Windows and other seminal software that turned the personal computer into a household staple

The Independent UK

Source Code by Bill Gates review – growing pains of a computer geek

The first volume of the tech baron turned philanthropist’s memoirs focuses on his parent’s struggles to control him – and a painful early loss

The Guardian - UK

Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates review – refreshingly frank

In contrast to the current crop of swaggering tech bros, the Microsoft founder comes across as wry and self-deprecating in this memoir of starting out

The Guardian - UK

Vikings Radio Announcers Were Going Through It During Sam Darnold's Dud vs. Rams

Minnesota's charmed season ended with a whimper.

Sports Illustrated

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The Biggest Yachts Owned By Tech Billionaires

The exclusive world of superyachts has seen an influx of tech billionaires joining the ranks of owners in recent years. With their vast fortunes, figures like Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Mark Zuckerberg have been able to commission some of the largest and most advanced yachts afloat. Here's a look…

USA Today Sports Media Group

Salary cap implications complicate Sam Darnold being a Viking in 2025

The voice of the Vikings, Paul Allen doesn't see Darnold back in Minnesota next season.

Louder

“You can get lost in the kitten vortex for hours.” A wide-ranging interview with The Jesus Lizard's David Yow, taking in new album Rack, a try out for Nirvana, acting, a sadistic witch, and a cat riding a goat

The Jesus Lizard are back, and David Yow has things on his mind

USA Today Sports Media Group

Seahawks listed as 15th most valuable NFL team, according to Forbes

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Microsoft co-founder's space art, artifacts to be sold by Christie's

Visions of humanity's future in space and spaceflight artifacts are heading for auction from Paul G. Allen's estate. Christie's is hosting three sales devoted to Allen's art and scientific objects.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Justin Jefferson found his career after football against the Raiders

It was announced on Friday that Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson would participate in the team's third-quarter game broadcast.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Could the Vikings keep three quarterbacks on the roster in 2024?

The play-by-play announcer looks for the Vikings to keep three quarterbacks on the active roster this season.

Fortune

Steve Ballmer, who was once Bill Gates’ assistant, is now richer than his onetime mentor

Ballmer was employee No. 30 at Microsoft but got most of his wealth from a sweetheart deal.

Windows Central

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's tech museum shut down with vintage computing collection slated for auction

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's estate recently indicated it's closing the Living Computers Museum + Labs in Seattle permanently. The rare technology items will be auctioned and the proceeds will be channeled to charitable causes.

Tom’s Hardware

DEC PDP-10 owned by Microsoft co-founder coming to auction — $30k reserve on mainframe model behind firm's first commercial software

Christie's is set to auction off a DEC PDP-10 mainframe, similar to what Gates and Allen used to build the Altair BASIC — the first product Microsoft ever built.

The Guardian - US

Einstein letter warning FDR of threat of Nazi nuclear bomb set to fetch $4m

Two-page letter written by physicist and fellow scientist, for sale at Christie’s, urged US government to invest in nuclear research

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