In a Facebook post addressed to his recently born first child, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg subtly made two major announcements. One, his wife Priscilla gave birth to a baby girl named Max (short for Maxima). Two, Mark and Priscilla will give away 99-percent of their Facebook shares within their lifetimes.
Condoms are a life-saving piece of tech, and for being little more than uninflated latex balloons, they do their job pretty well if you wear them. That's the part that Bill Gates is working on. No, he's not going around as a one-man condom-police army, but he is offering $100,000 to anyone who can make a condom less…
As a show of gratitude for donating $5000 worth of water pumps, a remote Indian village changed its name to Snapdeal.com, mirroring that of their Groupon-esque benefactor. Wait, wait, wait. Huh?
Philanthroper has a really good donation up today: you pay a dollar and you can offset the lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions from an iPhone 4. Which means, you'll help "suck and trap the greenhouse gas that's driving climate change". [Philanthroper]
Dr. Wakefield's study once showed a link between vaccinations and autism. Too bad it was based on fraudulent data and "an absolute lie". Bill Gates has pledged 10 billion dollars to make it the "year of the vaccines".
In addition to Japanese space underwear, Oakley sunglasses and $10,000 apiece from a local businessperson, all 33 Chilean miners will receive new iPods, courtesy of Apple. Now this is really the feel good news story of the year.
Our favorite charity-worker Bill Gates has successfully signed up 38 billionaires to give away half of their wealth to those less fortunate, in what could be the largest-scale philanthropic work ever.
Pundits, humanitarian organizations, and even the Haitian government haven't fully assessed the devastation on the earthquake-shattered half-island. Seen through machine eyes, yesterday is a blip; through human eyes, it defies description.
It's Halloween month, which means it's the season for giving nice things to kids who come knocking at your door. That's why io9 has joined up with our sister blogs in the Gawker Media Network (Deadspin, Gawker, Jezebel, Gizmodo, Fleshbot, Lifehacker, Kotaku, and Jalopnik) to raise as much money as we can for schools…
The hippies philanthropists at OLPC are overhauling the guts of their XO-1 with the aim of keeping the portable's battery life while increasing its capabilities.
The beautiful, smart and, no doubt, fragrant Melinda Gates is the subject of a mahoosive profile in Fortune. And, aside from the philanthropic angle (Bill and Melinda, it is estimated, will give away around $100 billion from their eponymous foundation) it gives a fascinating insight into the home life of Mr. and Mrs.…
Is there anything that Google doesn't have it's grubby little hands on these days? Up until today we thought that cars were off of their radar, but we were wrong. Their philanthropic division, Google.org, is moving into the plug-in hybrid market. What is that you ask? Basically they are full on electric cars that you…
