Three Mile Island, the site of worst nuclear disaster in the United States, is reopening and will exclusively sell the power to Microsoft as the company searches for energy sources to fuel its AI ambitions. Constellation Energy announced Friday that its Unit 1 reactor, which closed five years ago, is expected to be revived in […]
On Wednesday morning Microsoft announced it was laying off 10,000 employees, about 5 percent of its total headcount, in response to lowered revenue and a “re-aligned core structure.” Hours earlier, dozens of Microsoft executives attended an exclusive, company-funded Sting concert outside of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The combination of the two events […]
Microsoft will cut 10,000 jobs in the latest round of staff redundancies to hit the tech industry. It will affect up to 5% of its global workforce and cost the business $1.2 billion in severance and reorganisation costs. Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said that while customer spending had grown during Covid, more people were […]
A recent purchase of 2,100 acres of prime North Dakota farmland by a group tied to billionaire Bill Gates has some in the state concerned that they are being exploited by the ultra-wealthy. Gates owns some 269,000 acres across dozens of states, according to last year’s edition of the Land Report 100, an annual survey […]
In her first interview since splitting from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, Melinda French Gates said she is starting to get to the other side of her “journey of healing.” “I’m turning a page in the chapter now … I’m actually really excited about what’s to come in life ahead for me,” she said in a […]
EXCLUSIVE: Microsoft founder Bill Gates said in an exclusive “Fox News Sunday” interview that he believes the United States will be able to get back to normal life around summer 2021 due to progress made on vaccines and he’s “optimistic” the coronavirus pandemic “won’t last indefinitely” — although he also panned President Trump’s handling of […]
Would Apple CEO Tim Cook have been a good vice president? In an email believed to have been sent on March 17, Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta listed several choices for the Democratic presidential nominee to consider for her vice presidential pick. While the list, which was taken from the Clinton campaign and leaked […]
