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As Folding@Home tackles the coronavirus, volunteers deliver more compute power than the world’s top supercomputers

Pioneering distributed computing project SETI@home announced this month that it would no longer leverage the processing power of volunteers’ computers to search for alien life. But the Folding@Home project which uses similar technology for medical research purposes is still going strong — stronger than ever, really. Folding@Home director Greg Bowman notes that the combined might […]

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60+ freebies for while you’re stuck at home

Disclosure: Some links on this page are monetized by the Skimlinks and Amazon affiliate programs. An unprecedented number of people around the globe are being told to stay at home as a public health measure in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus and COVID-19. But just because you’re stuck at home doesn’t mean you […]

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Google IO developer conference will not happen “in any capacity this year”

The Google IO developer conference was originally scheduled to take place from May 12-14 this year. But a few weeks ago Google announced it would be cancelling “this year’s physical event” in Mountain View California. Now the company says it won’t be holding an I/O event “in any capacity this year.” The update comes as […]

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Apple announces that WWDC 2020 will be an online-only event in June

Apple has announced two things about this year’s Worldwide Developer Conference — it’ll take place sometime in June, and it’ll be an online-only event for the first time in its three decade history. The company says it will still provide “an opportunity for millions of creative and innovative developers to get early access to the […]

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Google I/O 2020 is canceled due to COVID-19 concerns

Over the last few weeks, tech-related trade shows and conferences have been dropping like flies. Less than a month after the GSMA canceled this year’s Mobile World Congress show, Facebook, Microsoft, Adobe, and Google have all canceled events, while NVIDIA and others have moved events online. Now Google has announced it’s canceling its annual Google […]