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Bill Gates – a business magnate, dutiful philanthropist, software pioneer, and the world’s richest man. Let’s take a look at 50 of the most interesting things you probably didn’t know about Microsoft’s co-founder. 1. Bill Gates was born William Henry Gates III, the fourth in his family to be given the name. Because his father had the suffix “II”, Bill was called by the nickname of “Trey.” 2. Gates attended the exclusive Lakeside School, one of handful schools in the US with a computer terminal at the time. Gates interest in the computer programming was such that he was excused from Math classes to pursue it.                                                                           Source: Pc Mag 3. Gates first computer program ever was a tic-tac-toe game. Source: Flickr/aaron_anderer 4. Gates hacked his school program to schedule students in classes, changing the code so that he was placed in classes with “disproportionate number of interesting girls.”

Gunman: Shaden Cadette A killer who shot a man twice in the back for no apparent motive laughed as he was jailed for life. Gunman Shaden Cadette, 23, smiled and waved to his family at the Old Bailey as he was convicted of murdering Ogarra Dixon, 24, and sentenced to at least 27 years in prison. He shot Mr Dixon moments after they met on the streets of Brixton. Prosecutor Timothy Cray, QC, said the motive was unknown as Cadette claimed he was not the gunman and had pleaded not guilty. Shot dead: victim Ogarra Dixon, who was murdered in the street by Shaden Cadette The court heard that Mr Dixon parked his car in Cadette’s street just after midnight in June last year and minutes later Cadette returned on his moped. Mr Cray said: "He went into his house and the likelihood is he went to arm himself with a gun. "He came out and took his moped down the road to where Mr Dixon was parked. Mr Dixon got out of h

                                   LG this summer revealed it has been hard at work on a HD television so THIN it could hang on a wall, like wallpaper. LG has previously shown off the display technology, which can be rolled up like a poster, and hung using only magnets. One sample shown off by LG was a svelte 0.97mm thick and weighed just 1.9kg.                                  LG is using OLED technology, organic light-emitting diodes, which means a bulky backlight is not needed for the display. By hanging on the wall using magnets, the new LG TV could revolutionise the adaptability of big screen televisions. LG plans to unveil a 55inch rollable display at the International Consumer Electronics Show, in January 2016.                                Mass production is set to begin later in the year with consumer versions shipping in the near future. Speaking to the Korea Times, a spokesperson for LG official revealed: “There are still a lot of technological barri