August 9, 2010 10:33 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
Bill Gates, speaking with Brent Schlender on Friday at the inaugural Techonomy conference near Lake Tahoe, Calif.
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Ina Fried/CNET)
LAKE TAHOE, Calif.–The exponential growth in chip performance, known as Moore’s Law, is great, but can’t be applied to all areas of technology, Bill Gates warned last [...]
August 9, 2010 5:00 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, speaking to CNET reporter Ina Fried after his talk at the Techonomy conference last week.
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Ina Fried/CNET)
NEAR LAKE TAHOE, Calif.–Bill Gates says that it is gratifying to see the computer industry that he helped start turn some of its attention to [...]
August 6, 2010 2:45 PM PDT
by Ina Fried
Bill Gates, speaking with Brent Schlender on Friday at the inaugural Techonomy conference near Lake Tahoe, Calif.
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Ina Fried/CNET)
LAKE TAHOE, Calif.–Bill Gates is a glass three-quarters-full kind of guy, but watching the U.S. political system fail to tackle big problems like health care is enough [...]
August 6, 2010 12:35 PM PDT
by Ina Fried
LAKE TAHOE, Calif.–The key to many hard problems, from nuclear power to modeling diseases, is better software modeling, Bill Gates said on Friday.
While it’s not surprising that he’s a fan of using software to hard problems, it is somewhat surprising that there aren’t already [...]
August 4, 2010 3:37 PM PDT
by Ina Fried
LAKE TAHOE, Calif.–For those concerned with privacy, Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a few more things to start worrying about.
Schmidt noted that using artificial intelligence, computers can take 14 pictures of anyone on the Internet and stand a good chance of identifying that person. [...]
August 4, 2010 9:40 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
Oracle CEO Larry Ellison is among dozens of billionaires who have signed on to give away the bulk of their wealth to charity.
Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have been lobbying the world’s megarich to sign a “Giving Pledge” to eventually donate at least half [...]
June 22, 2010 4:00 AM PDT
by Ina Fried
The technology icon stands before a crowd, holding in his hands a prototype that embodies his vision for the future of computing. It’s a touch-screen tablet that is thinner than a magazine, has all-day battery life, and sells for less than $800.
But the icon [...]