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Before all the revelations about his divorce, dubious workplace behaviour and ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates was just America’s huggable billionaire techno-philanthropist.

There are more than 10 effective Covid-19 vaccines in use around the world, so it’s easy to forget those still in development. That’s a mistake.

While clearly useful, Apple’s new AirTags can also potentially be misused. Concerns have been raised they might facilitate stalking, for example.

Apple and Microsoft are both looking to dominate the next big things in tech – from artificial intelligence and cloud computing to gaming, tablets, custom processors and mixed-reality headsets.

For now, Naspers and Prosus CEO Bob van Dijk has managed to figure out a short-term fix for his problem. Eventually he’ll need to think longer term. By Alex Webb.

Ultimately, investors may have to learn to live with the valuation gap between Naspers and Tencent. And management may have to ignore complaints about it and focus on growing Prosus’s investments.

Can you love bitcoin and the environment at the same time?

Billionaire Jeff Bezos’s space launch company, Blue Origin, has announced it will sell its first flights into microgravity to the highest bidder.

To meet the ever-growing demand for digital data storage, around 100 new hyperscale data centres are built every two years.

We’re in the early stages of a voice-profiling revolution that companies see as integral to the future of marketing. There’s only one problem…