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PlayStation 3 tackles world ills
« on: November 17, 2009, 10:11:33 PM »
PlayStation 3 tackles world ills

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/5287254.stm

The spare processing power of Sony's PlayStation 3 (PS3) will be harnessed by scientists trying to understand the cause of diseases like Alzheimer's.

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« Reply #1 on: November 17, 2009, 10:38:48 PM »
sounds like a good project for banned 360's
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Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.  It is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that
problem will never be solved by science.

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« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2009, 08:35:50 PM »
This news is ancient.
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« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2009, 09:03:23 PM »
yea isnt this that icon that never got used on my dash?

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« Reply #4 on: November 24, 2009, 01:55:40 AM »
news at 8, computers help solving problems - AWESOME!
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« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2012, 08:28:08 PM »
Hate to resurrect this ancient thread, but has anything ever come out of this?

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« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2012, 11:55:37 PM »
do you not know what folding@HOME is?

if they made any announcements it'd be on their site.