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Bill Gates: I’d rather invest in vaccines than Bitcoin Feb 26, 2021

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Bill Gates says he’d rather invest in vaccines than Bitcoin. During a live chat on social network Clubhouse, the Microsoft founder told host Andrew Sorkin he doesn’t choose his investments on the basis of whether they would be worth more to others. Plus, the FDA allows the Pfizer vaccine to be stored and transported at warmer temperatures, it wasn’t just Nasa’s Perseverance rover that landed on Mars - millions of people did as well, and embattled Cyberpunk 2077 runs into yet more trouble.

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Dr Fauci: We can vaccinate our way out of this pandemic Feb 25, 2021

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America’s top infectious disease expert Dr Anthony Fauci says we can vaccinate our way out of the coronavirus pandemic, but he’s concerned anti-vaxxers could prevent us from reaching that goal. Plus, the hidden message on the Nasa Perseverance rover’s parachute revealed, Facebook and Google must now pay for news in Australia and, how 30,000 elephant 'selfies' will help in conservation.

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Nasa’s Mars mission's next steps: will it find life? Feb 24, 2021

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Nasa’s Perseverance rover is about to start its long-awaited Mars mission and Dr Kelsey Moore from the agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab is one of the scientists involved in looking for evidence of past life on the red planet. She tells the Standard what exactly their looking for and how likely it is they’ll find it. Plus, Spotify says its open to alternative models for calculating how artists should be paid, Sony is launching a new virtual reality system for the PlayStation 5, and we debunk the story behind the viral ‘un-scented’ perfume.

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After years gazing at Mars, Nasa unveils what it sounds like Feb 23, 2021

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Nasa has released audio of the first sounds recorded from the surface of Mars. A microphone on the Perseverance rover captures a gust of wind on the red planet, and the audio has had a wider impact than the scientists anticipated. Plus, Facebook re-friends Australia, WhatsApp users will be cut off if they don’t accept the new terms and conditions, and Twisted Metal fans could soon be bingeing on a TV series based on the iconic game.

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Covid vaccines ‘cut risk of hospital admissions by up to 94%’ Feb 22, 2021

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There’s more good news on the efficacy of the Pfizer and AstraZeneca jabs: researchers say both are having a “substantial effect” on hospital admissions and the risk of serious illness. It comes as a roadmap to ease England’s lockdown measures is to be detailed today, but the plan has already been met with mixed reviews. Plus, cyber fraudsters are switching from big money scams to ‘silent stealing’ on a massive scale, NHS doctors are the first in the world to use reanimated hearts to save the lives of six children, and a new study finds people who hold extremist attitudes tend to perform poorly on complex mental tasks.

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Nasa on rover touch down - latest on Perseverance mission Feb 19, 2021

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Now Perseverance’s work begins, but how does it avoid punctures on the craggy Martian surface and send samples millions of miles back to Earth? Nasa explains. Forty dead, millions without power and water in Texas after extreme winter storm, as White House links to climate change. Britain’s first coal mine for 30 years is being planned, inflaming tensions over environmental impact versus local jobs. Meet the YouTuber who built the world’s largest working PS5 console weighing a quarter of a ton.

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'Seven minutes of terror': Nasa on Mars Rover as it makes final approach Feb 18, 2021

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Floating down to the Red Planet by parachute is the tensest part for Mission Control after 300 million-mile journey. Banned Down Under: Facebook blocks Australian news content in payment row with government. Million-year-old mammoth’s teeth that look like a shoe sole are the oldest specimens ever DNA tested by Natural History Museum. Nintendo announced new Mario title and refreshed Zelda game for Switch.

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Exclusive Nasa Mars rover interview: How robot driving experts control Perseverance from Earth Feb 17, 2021

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Meet mobility systems engineer and rover planner on the mission Tyler Del Sesto, part of the team at Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Scientists fear reopening all schools could push up the coronavirus infection rate. TikTok accused by a European consumer watchdog of breaching users’ rights on a ‘massive scale’ and failing to protect children from harmful content. North Korea in the frame over of hacking Pfizer to get hands on Covid-19 vaccine data. Revealed: the tiny spy trackers embedded in marketing emails secretly watching you - and how to fight back.

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Nasa’s Perseverance rover has laser eyes to hunt for life on Mars Feb 16, 2021

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The probe currently whizzing towards Red Planet has a ‘head’ equipped with laser eyes and a super-strength vaporiser to hunt for Martian chemicals and organic compounds. Fake five-star Amazon reviews offered on sale for the price of a pizza, investigation finds. Top WHO doctor says super-fast Covid tests ‘will pave return towards normality’ but those without a vaccine passport will be able to travel less. Harvard scientists think a mega-asteroid that wiped out Earth’s dinosaurs ‘came from edge of Solar System’, helped by Jupiter’s gravity field. Swimming robot investigates impact of global warming on break-up of world’s biggest iceberg. Researchers find tropical wasps babysit for neighbouring nests.

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Scientists in Japan investigate earthquake leaving one million without power Feb 15, 2021

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Scientists in Japan are assessing the damage of a magnitude 7.3 earthquake that struck near Fukushima on Saturday night, we ask Dr Stephen Hicks, an earth sciences expert at Imperial College London, about the risk of aftershocks. Curing Covid is simple compared to beating climate crisis, warns Bill Gates. UAE Mars satellite: Probe’s first pictures of Red Planet are emailed back to Earth. Routine CT scans can find early signs of lung cancer in 70 per cent of patients, study reveals. Pensioners are playing classic Xbox titles online to help them connect with families during Covid. Forget the golf course as a presidential hobby, Joe Biden’s more interested in playing Mario Kart at Camp David.

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