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Microsoft’s board members were in favor of having Bill Gates step down as director last year while an investigation was being conducted into his alleged affair with a female employee, The Wall Street Journal reports. A law firm was hired by a committee comprised of Microsoft board members to look into the allegations contained within a letter […]
Among other reports and revelations that have come out of her split from Bill Gates, we’ve now learned that Melinda Gates first started consulting with divorce lawyers in 2019, according to the Wall Street Journal. A former employee for the Melinda & Bill Gates Foundation told the outlet that at least part of her decision was related to her husband’s relationship […]
Things to envy about Bill Gates: His bank account, his intelligence, his Porsche collection, his philanthropy, his rugged good looks. Things not to envy about Bill Gates: The public scrutiny that his divorce, specifically the alleged contentious nature of it, is getting. The former certainly makes the latter palatable (I mean, I would think, can’t speak […]
Microsoft begrudgingly released a statement Wednesday telling people to not blow vape smoke into their Xbox Series X. The statement comes after videos started going around showing smoke emitting from the newly-released next-gen console. It was later debunked that people were apparently turning the vertically-standing console off and blowing smoke directly into the vents to create this effect. The Xbox Series […]
On the eve of the worldwide release of the Xbox Series X, Dwayne Johnson and Microsoft have joined together to surprise 20 children’s hospitals around the U.S. with custom consoles. This move is in the same vein of a promotion that took place when the same duo joined up for the release of the original […]
ByteDance has rejected Microsoft’s bid to buy the app’s U.S. operations. “ByteDance let us know today they would not be selling TikTok’s US operations to Microsoft,” Microsoft said in a statement. “We are confident our proposal would have been good for TikTok’s users, while protecting national security interests. To do this, we would have made significant changes to ensure […]
Amid a pandemic that has wrecked the health and finances of thousands of Americans, and currently shows no signs of imminent improvement, Trump is putting time and energy into threatening TikTok. Indeed, as previously reported, Trump again spouted some shit about “banning” the popular app last week. He was also said to have expressed a lack of […]
UPDATED 7/31 at 11:30 p.m. ET: On Friday night, Donald Trump told press he planned to ban TikTok and could do so as early as Saturday using an executive order, according to multiple reports. “As far as TikTok is concerned, we’re banning them from the United States,” he said, according to a pool report. According to […]
2019 is promising to be an interesting year for E3, the biggest gaming event of the year. Sony isn’t bringing their PlayStation brand to the trade show this year, which means they also won’t be doing a conference like they usually do. Microsoft, meanwhile, is expected to showcase their next-generation Xbox console. Still going strong […]
Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft, has passed away at age 65 in Seattle. His death was a result of complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, CNBC reports. His sister, Jody, released a statement where she remembered who he was on a personal level. “While most knew Paul Allen as a technologist and philanthropist, for us he was a […]
