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Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft’s board of directors

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Co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down from the board of Microsoft, the company announced Bill Gates is leaving the board of Microsoft, the company announced Friday. The Microsoft co-founder, 64, is to dedicate more of his time to his charity, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation  He has been spending more time on his philanthropic … Read more

Bill Gates calls coronavirus a ‘once-in-a-century’ pathogen

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Philanthropist Bill Gates on Friday warned that the coronavirus is beginning to behave like a ‘once-in-a-century’ pathogen with the potential to kill more people than the 66,000 Americans who died in the 1957 influenza pandemic. ‘The data so far suggest that the virus has a case fatality risk around 1 per cent,’ Gates wrote. ‘This … Read more