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SMARTPHONES DO VERY little when you’re asleep, apart from charging overnight, but a new app will put your Android phone to good use while you get some much-needed rest.
The University of Vienna and Samsung Austria released a new app called Power Sleep, which uses your phone’s processing power to complete protein calculations to help research into diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s.
Taking the form of an alarm clock, the app requests a data package from a University of Vienna server and begins calculating while you’re asleep.
When your alarm goes off, the process is completed and sent off to the researchers’ database. The app doesn’t collect any personal data from you, only the calculations made while you sleep.
The researchers say the average amount of data packet transmitted is 1MB, although it’s recommended you’re connected to a WiFi network first when it’s calculating.
The University of Vienna’s app is one of many examples of projects which use personal devices for research. The most popular one was Folding@Home, an initiative from Stanford University which uses your Windows computer to run protein calculations in the background while you’re working.
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Still less of an increase than somebody on the dole when you factor in the increased Christmas bonus…
@Owen Slattery: about 450/year better off… For choosing not to work. Compared to 290e for choosing to work…
@Joe Jackson: so about €6 a week,great but where is my Christmas bonus?
@Owen Slattery: yup but I’d still rather live on what I get paid with my salary than try to live off the dole
Can tell you, being on the dole made me depressed and the what to do something. Signing on for the first time made me feel ashamed to the people who pay taxes to help others get by on life. Love being back in full time education, to get that degree I so desperately want.
@Karl Markey: the best of luck to you!
@Karl Markey: well done Karl. We’ve all had a kick in the hole at some part of our lives mate. Best of luck man.
@Karl Markey: exactly how the dole should be used… As a safety net. Not as a lifestyle choice like Margaret Cash and co. think.
@Karl Markey: Fair dues to you Karl, all the very best with it
@Karl Markey: Fair dues to you Karl, all the very best with it
@Joe Jackson: The government need people like you to do their dirty work.
@Sean Conway: dirty work? Working hard to pay my taxes and support my family myself? Yes, the country could do with more like me…
Oh good! TD’s are safe.
Never thought we would see FF out defending a FG budget
#BarryCowanfor FG.
Ah finally an article applicable to me on the Journal
People that earn over 100k don’t read this s#ite.
I will go crazy with my extra 290e…
@Joe Jackson: My mother gets 5 week from march 2019. She is considering booking a cruise around the world with it.
Give in one hand and take in the other.
I think its time we march to get rid of the USC
Temporary tax????
Red Panty night!!
Love this disjointed journalism pick the hard working family earning 50000 between them what will they get
Disgraceful journalism
Problem was didnt like being told of fake news
@Lorraine Burke: what????? They did, look down the news feed it’s two stories down and they covered 30k , 40k ,50k…..so that’s a single or couple with that income assessed jointly . Also fake news is a story made up, this is just a collection of facts collated by the author listing how the budget effects someone on that income .
Yeah. Nothing in there.
Such a lack of vision by this government. pure populist garbage. Why not instead of giving the people on the dole an extra fiver and working people even less. Why not Invest more in infrastructure projects. Limerick to cork Motorway, Underground for Dublin. Decent broadband to name a few
And who is earning “around 100k” and why is that amount worthy of the article. More to the point, who in the name of jazus cares about people early “around 100k” sure there grand anyway.
@Red Pirate 71: There more than likely employers, managers, and those who provide jobs for the rest of us
Love this disjointed journalism pick the hard working family earning 50000 between them what will they get
Disgraceful journalism
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