This app uses your phone's processing power while charged and plugged in. Instead of leaving your phone on idle, it will be used to help cure diseases such as cancer.
Your phone is used to help solve calculations, and the results are sent over your WiFi connection to Stanford University
Being going for quite a long time now, but I hadn't seen it on HUKD before.
From app description:
"You can take part in the search for groundbreaking cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer and infectious diseases such as Ebola. Lend your smartphone's processing power to science while you sleep. It costs you nothing. It helps a lot."
Top comments
rnakpatel to odian
15 Jan 163#16
Ignorant cynic.
Magister to Rimi
15 Jan 163#8
Well, let's hope karma doesn't come a-calling on you.
All comments (29)
reddeviluk
14 Jan 162#1
Helping cure cancer.... Got to be hot.
Thanks op
Maxow
14 Jan 162#2
I thought they did this with PCs....
Rimi
14 Jan 161#3
What a crap.....
Python1100 to Rimi
14 Jan 162#5
How so?
Magister to Rimi
15 Jan 163#8
Well, let's hope karma doesn't come a-calling on you.
look like bitcoin, use your cpu power for calculations, but who now, really for what, bitcoin or cure cancer
saucymonk
15 Jan 162#7
Think i'd rather do this on PC. As if my phone battery didn't last long enough as it is.
msnmp
15 Jan 16#9
Shame it isn't available on IOS. Is there anything similar for iPhone? Would like to help with the research.
cicobuff
15 Jan 16#10
They used to have this on the PS3, and according to wiki.....
englishrick
15 Jan 16#11
There used to be one that was called [email protected] as well which analysed data from noises from space to search for ET..
superivanho
15 Jan 162#12
yup that's right and I was one of the contributors lol.
odian
15 Jan 162#13
Cure? Cure? Haha, nothing gets cured these days, there hasn't been a cure for anything for decades, no money involved in cures but plenty of money (billions) in treatments, save your battery the waste of time this is.
rnakpatel to odian
15 Jan 163#16
Ignorant cynic.
ohdearohdear to odian
15 Jan 162#17
It seems you've been in a cave the last decades.
Magister to odian
15 Jan 16#18
Perhaps you should change your nickname to Odious.
kel64
15 Jan 16#14
Incorrect. Extra strain on your phone which would otherwise be idling, means increased electric usage.
ijaz_g1
15 Jan 16#15
guys, there's already a cure for cancer
odian
16 Jan 16#19
odian
16 Jan 16#20
Oh no, it seems reality is offensive, nevermind go back to watching your reality tv shows and everything will be ok.
odian
16 Jan 16#21
Oh no, it seems reality is offensive, nevermind go back to watching your reality tv shows and everything will be ok.
odian
16 Jan 16#22
Ignore the like, you cannot unlike mistakes it seems on here as for ignorance, really, really? Check it out for yourself,
sheepie.
deeinlondon
16 Jan 162#23
I'm curious to know .. what disease got cured in the last few decades vs life long treatment?
HUKDUSER94
16 Jan 16#24
Phones barely use any electricity - it's negligible
Elevation
17 Jan 161#25
Much like your phone after being left on all night.
ackbar
18 Jan 16#26
most peoples phones are on all night
TehJumpingJawa
18 Jan 16#27
A negligibility comparable only to the quantity of work units your phone is doing.
In terms of power efficiency, phones are a poor platform for folding.
Though it still has value as PR, and as a means of invisibly acquiring donations.
It definitely shouldn't be in freebies though; it's [email protected] who are the ones getting the freebie!
HUKDUSER94
18 Jan 161#28
It may not be in the correct section, but it's in the best section :wink:
People wouldn't see this if it wasn't in freebies
Besides, since it barely costs anything to donate, it could be considered a free donation - hence a freebie
Kind of like the negligible cost of printing a voucher to get a freebie in-store
mcdan1985
19 Jan 16#29
sorry but what a load of tosh.
how is cancer gonna be cured anytime soon ?
all the big pharma compnies will smear the **** outta anyone close to it as its a billion pound industry
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Opening post
Your phone is used to help solve calculations, and the results are sent over your WiFi connection to Stanford University
Being going for quite a long time now, but I hadn't seen it on HUKD before.
From app description:
"You can take part in the search for groundbreaking cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's, cancer and infectious diseases such as Ebola. Lend your smartphone's processing power to science while you sleep. It costs you nothing. It helps a lot."
Top comments
All comments (29)
Thanks op
sheepie.
In terms of power efficiency, phones are a poor platform for folding.
Though it still has value as PR, and as a means of invisibly acquiring donations.
It definitely shouldn't be in freebies though; it's [email protected] who are the ones getting the freebie!
People wouldn't see this if it wasn't in freebies
Besides, since it barely costs anything to donate, it could be considered a free donation - hence a freebie
Kind of like the negligible cost of printing a voucher to get a freebie in-store
how is cancer gonna be cured anytime soon ?
all the big pharma compnies will smear the **** outta anyone close to it as its a billion pound industry