Bill Gates

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

‘Another drink / clean the sink’: Mick Jagger’s lockdown was just as boring as yours

The rockstar’s self-deprecating new single, Easy Sleazy, reveals his lockdown routines

Microsoft to buy AI and speech tech company Nuance for €16bn

Offer of $56 per share represents premium of 22.9% on Nuance’s last closing price

Irish billionaires see a sharp rise in their fortunes

Among the gainers are Denis O’Brien, Eugene Murtagh and Dermot Desmond

Sean Bean: ‘The mango sex scene was a new level of weirdness’

The Snowpiercer star on his character’s Trumpian qualities and a Game of Thrones prequel

The worst phrases of the pandemic: From ‘meaningful’ to ‘maskne’

Remember the world before ‘non-essential retail’ and ‘pivot’ came into everyday usage?

World should be back to normal by end-2022 due to vaccines - Gates

Microsoft founder has committed $1.75bn to Covid-19 pandemic response

Collison brothers worth an estimated $11.5bn each

Big jump in personal fortunes of Irish-born tech entrepreneurs after recent fundraise

How vaccine laggard CureVac hopes to come out on top

EU approval is likely to come around the middle of the year

Bill Gates: ‘I’m not trying to take anything away from Greta Thunberg, but...’

The billionaire has some bones to pick with his fellow climate-emergency campaigners

Breda O’Brien: Time to question our tech billionaire overlords

Moronic conspiracy theories about Bill Gates wanting to microchip the world only detract attention from the vast, unaccountable power he already wields

Fintan O’Toole: Science and stupidity are thriving. Don’t forget common sense

In the fight against Covid, the wisdom of the crowd has been proven right

As Jeff Bezos steps aside, what comes next for Amazon?

Company founder to be replaced as CEO by Andy Jassy, seen as a steady hand on the tiller

Vaccine dithering exposes fault lines within EU

‘If the people of Europe decide their leaders have yet again failed them, the political backlash could be severe’

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