Melinda French Gates is sharing details about her “unbelievably painful” divorce from Bill Gates. French Gates was married to the billionaire Microsoft co-founder for 27 years. The couple divorced in August 2021. And perhaps surprisingly, the COVID-19 pandemic made that break a bit easier.

“I had some reasons I just couldn’t stay in that marriage anymore,” French Gates told Fortune (as reported by People). “But the odd thing about COVID is that it gave me the privacy to do what I needed to do.”

She added, “It’s unbelievably painful, in innumerable ways, but I had the privacy to get through it.”

Though the Gates’ three children are all adults now, their mother wanted to shield them during the shift.

“My main concern, of course, was trying to protect my kids through it,” French Gates told Fortune. “And we got to the other side.”

It isn’t the first time French Gates has discussed her divorce from one of the world’s richest men. In March, she told CBS’ Gayle King that she grieved the loss of her marriagea loss she never saw coming when they wed in Hawaii in 1994.

Bill Gates acknowledged an affair with a Microsoft employee during the marriage. In the interview with King, French Gates was asked if he had more than one affair, and she said only, “those are questions Bill needs to answer.”

The couple continue to run the philanthropic Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle.

At CNET we’ve been putting together a huge amount of TV and movie recommendations. It’s been awesome! Discussing the best shows on Netflixor the best sci-fi series on Prime Video. Most of the time it’s easy to select our absolute favorites.

But when it was suggested I write about the “best documentary on Netflix” I began sweating. immediately. I maintain CNET’s list of best documentaries. I watch almost every documentary on the service as soon as they’re released.

Netflix has a lot of good documentaries.

I’d argue documentaries are the best thing about Netflix, period. There’s genre-defining true-crime series like Making a Murderer, Oscar-winning movies like Icarus, incredible nature docos like Our Planet. That’s before we even mention viral hits like Tiger King or Drive to Survive.

It’s almost impossible to choose just one.

But the nature of our recommendations at CNET is to choose something audiences might have missed, or something underrated. That’s why we tend to call out shows like Dark or For All Mankind on Apple TV Plus over established classics like Stranger Things.

So in that spirit, I am selecting Untold as my pick for best documentary series on Netflix. Because it’s rules. It rules so goddamn much.

Produced by the folks behind the also extremely good Wild Wild Country, Untold is a series of feature-length documentaries focused on sports. Which is like saying Game of Thrones is a story about an iron chair or Harry Potter is a franchise about a

Samsung Electronics has appointed Lee Jae-yong — who is known in the West as Jay Y. Lee — as its executive chairman, giving the grandson of the company’s founder formal control, the South Korean tech giant announced today. The announcement came on the same day that Samsung announced a series of disappointing earnings resultsas profits fell 23 percent compared to the previous quarter.

According to Samsung’s official announcement justifying the appointment, “the Board cited the current uncertain global business environment and the pressing need for stronger accountability and business stability in approving the recommendation.” Samsung is currently battling a slump in demand for several of its key businesses including memory chips, mobile phones, and TVs. It doesn’t expect demand to pick back up until the second half of next year.

Lee’s ascension is unlikely to change much for the company in the short term, Bloomberg notes, given he’s long served as Samsung’s de-facto leader. But formally taking control means Lee can take bigger strategic decisions to steer the company through a turbulent economic period, including pushing through acquisitions, mergers, and funneling investment into emerging technologies.

54-year old Lee succeeds his father, Lee Kun-hee, as head of South Korea’s largest company following his death in October 2020. Lee Kun-hee had been incapacitated for years after suffering a heart attack in 2014. The younger Lee had been embroided in a corruption and bribery scandal since 2017, and been sent

You can add another name to your list of filmmakers trying to develop the next Star Wars movie: Damon Lindelof. Deadline reports that Lindelof, who rose to prominence as the co-creator of Lost and more recently won multiple Emmys for his work on HBO’s TV adaptation of Watchmen, is developing and co-writing the film, although it’s unclear who his writing partner could be. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy, who worked on several episodes of Ms. Marvelis reportedly in talks to direct.

This is all a far cry from Disney’s original plans for the Star Wars franchise. At one point in 2015 the studio had plans to release a new Star Wars movie every year, interspersing its new trilogy of films with standalone releases. But, more recently, the studio’s focus has shifted towards the smaller screen with Disney Plus shows including Andor and The Mandalorian.

At this point it’s unclear when Lindelof’s Star Wars film could be set in the franchise’s timeline, who could star, or when the film might be released. But, for what it’s worth, Deadline reports that the project “seems to have the most momentum out of all all the films currently in development at the studio.” With any luck, it could be the one to bring an end to Star Wars‘ cinematic purgatory.