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August 23, 2006
PS3 Searches for Cure for Cancer
Stanford University and Sony have announced that all PS3's will be able to participate in Cure@PS3, taking advantage of the console's super powerful cell chip in distributed computing. Whenever you leave your PS3 on, it can spend its time decoding information and research in hopes of bringing society one step closer to a cure.
To put that into perspective, lets just say the PS3 sells as many units as the PS2's has sold to date. That's over 60 million PS3's number crunching away, far more powerful than any super computer at any facility.
It sorta makes the $600 price tag easier to swallow (slightly). However, It would be nice to say, "me and my PS3 helped find a cure for cancer".
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August 6, 2006
MSN Messenger for Nintendo DS
First it was TV, then it was a browser and pretty soon, a homebrew MSN chat messenger called Beup. The DS is becoming the must have gaming, communications, and entertainment device - even more so than the Sony PSP, which is ironic since the PSP was hailed as the portable entertainment console.
If you check out this video, you can clearly see it's all real. It even carries the Windows Vista interface. It looks to be a free download so if any of you have access to a flash cart, let me know how it works!
via hight3ch
Posted by tranism at 11:47 PM | Permalink
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