App Lets Phone Owners Participate In Scientific Projects
” Android smartphone owners can be citizen scientists and participate in important scientific research every time they charge their phones, U.S. researchers say.
A new phone app created at the University of California, Berkeley, will allow users to donate a phone’s idle computing power to crunch numbers for projects that could lead to breakthroughs ranging from novel medical therapies to the discovery of new stars, a university release said Tuesday.
The app was created by a Berkeley project called Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing, known for its computer software that supports more than 50 volunteer computing projects around the world.”
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