In his new book, Gates recalls a unique childhood that led him to build a technology empire. We talk BASIC, old PCs, ...

Around the same time, he'd been introduced, through school, to his first computer, the PDP-8 ... and his upbringing as a smart but complicated kid fascinated by puzzles and programming.

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 ...

Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates, 69, tells his remarkable origin story, from childhood through the beginnings of Microsoft, which he cofounded with Paul Allen back in 1975 at age 19 (he's planning to ...

It would be nice to win a lifetime supply of groceries, fuel, or round-trip tickets to Hawaii. However, these giveaways don’t always turn out exactly as advertised. To get a firsthand account of what ...

Bill Gates has written a memoir in which he says he would probably be ­diagnosed with autism were he a kid in school today.

Luke Farritor, a University of Nebraska undergrad, made headlines by decoding ancient Herculaneum scrolls using artificial ...

Microsoft has been around since 1975, and its growth follows that of the personal computer ... Unless you're a real nerd — or are old enough to have used PCs in the 1980s — then you're ...

Jennifer Norrell led an effort to more than double the percentage of high schoolers taking AP in her district.

Microsoft founder Bill Gates joins CNN’s Anderson Cooper and discusses Elon Musk's role in President Donald Trump's ...

Seattle boasts one of the largest locksport communities in the U.S., partly due to an influx of tech nerds who see locks as ...

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