Posted on December 19th, 2007 by Captain
Am I a bad person? I think maybe I am, like Hugo Drax, or Auric Goldfinger.
I like the whole Folding@Home thing, I like the idea that one day, a child who would previously have some horrific genetic illness, will instead laugh and frolic with the other children because of a protein that I personally folded [...]
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Filed under: Console news, Folding@home, Playstation Network, Social Networking, Tricks, ps3 firmware
Posted on September 6th, 2007 by PS3Vault
Finally, the release date for Home over the PSN has been revealed - it’s provisionally set as the 11th of October, 2007. Other dates include Pixel Junk Racers (4th October) and Pain (13th of December). No date yet for Gran Turismo 5 Prologue, but it’s promised to hit before December.
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Posted on August 28th, 2007 by PS3Vault
A Sony representative answered a few quick questions to GameSpot about the DRM on the downloadable edition of Warhawk.
GameSpot: What’s different about Warhawk’s DRM?
Sony representative: The downloadable version of Warhawk, which is available from the PlayStation Store, will be directly tied to the registered PSN account that purchased the game. Only that registered PSN account [...]
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Filed under: Folding@home, Game Previews
Posted on August 22nd, 2007 by PS3Vault
Sony has released an update for US PlayStation 3 users which will increase the effectiveness of the Folding@home distributed computing project.
Folding@home is a Stanford University initiative aimed at understanding protein folding, misfolding and its related diseases.
The v1.2 application update also provides PS3 users with added functionalities and features, including support for Remote Play for the [...]
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Posted on May 18th, 2007 by PS3Vault
The 360 and the PS3 are in the middle of a war of bullet points: who has the best high-definition connections, who can do more multimedia stuff, who can cure more diseases… okay I made that last one up. Or maybe not. After Sony launched their mega-successful Folding@Home program on the PS3, Microsoft has been [...]
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Posted on March 15th, 2007 by PS3Vault
Xbox what? Mover over please!
Sony Computer Entertainment will jointly work with Stanford University to create a network of PS3s to research the cause of diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, and various life threatening cancers. It will take approximately 30 years for a cell powered PC to simulate folding proteins however, with the help of current [...]
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Filed under: Folding@home, Main
