Bill Gates gives $10m to probe the universe
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Large Synoptic Survey Telescope donation Bill Gates has donated $10m to the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) - an 8.4 metre beast boasting the world's largest digital camera designed to capture the entire available night sky every three days, "opening a movie-like window on objects that change or move on rapid timescales".â¦
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The foundation that inspired a private sector race to space announced a new $10 million prize on Wednesday -- this time to inspire a race to sequence the human genetic map faster and cheaper.
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Combating malaria has been one of the primary goals of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and its latest gift of $42.6 million will fund a nonprofit drug company&#39;s high-tech take on an ancient Chinese remedy.
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The Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation - whose watchword is &quot;We believe that the world&#39;s toughest problems can be solved - if we work together&quot; - is giving $3M to help those struck by the natural disaster that&#39;s wreaked such havoc in South Asia.
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Students from around the world pitched Bill Gates as part of a worldwide software development challenge.
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SAN FRANCISCO Bill Gates is making a 42 (m) million dollar donation that he hopes will change how malaria is treated around the world.
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To help pay for tomorrow's world-class observatories, astronomers are forging international partnerships.
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Science & environment: Billionaire businessman pays tribute to computing industry ahead of his Microsoft exit
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The Foundation of US billionaire and Microsoft founder Bill Gates plans to computerize Romania's public libraries to provide free access to computers and the Internet for all Romanians, the culture ministry said in Bucharest.
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The designers of the first privately manned rocket to burst into space were handed a &#36;10 million check Saturday, a prize designed to encourage technology that will open the heavens to tourists.
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By Natalie P. Mcneal, The Miami Herald  Dec. 17--The Helen B. Hoffman Plantation Library will get nine new computers this year, thanks to a $10,500 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
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Who expected Bill Gates to make us proud to be in high-tech? The geek-turned-philanthropist has surprised us all.
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MOJAVE, Calif.  - The world's first privately  funded manned spacecraft soared to the blackened frontiers of  space for the second time in a week on Monday, setting a new  altitude record and clinching a $10 million prize designed to  spur commercial space travel
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ST. LOUIS -- It&#39;s a big day for a big check in St. Louis where the team behind a rocket plane called SpaceShipOne has accepted a $10 million prize for advancements in private space travel and tourism.
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The Federal Communications Commissionâs auction of federally owned airwaves is eventually expected to bring the government at least $10 billion.
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A project to build a pioneering telescope in Chile got a $30 million boost Thursday with donations from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates and former company executive Charles Simonyi.
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Scientists discuss their prefered targets for the next multi-billion-dollar