Intel has launched a Facebook app version of its distributed computing technology, which aims to solve difficult problems that require lots of computing power by getting millions of PCs across the world to do little bits when they're idle.

Sony has announced that since PlayStation 3 took part in Stanford University's Folding@home project on March 22, 2007, the total number of registered users has reached over one million.

This equates to roughly 3000 PS3 users registering...

Stanford University's Folding@home project has reached the computing milestone of a petaflop thanks to the PS3.

"The recent inclusion of PS3 as part of the Folding@home program has afforded our research group with computing power that goes...

Microsoft has obviously been keeping a close eye on the PS3’s folding@home project and decided that it can do better.

Peter Moore, the Microsoft games chief, has said that Microsoft is ready to listen to proposals for a 360 research project...

More than 30,000 gamers around the world have signed up to Stanford University's Folding@home project following Sony's move to allow gamers to use the PlayStation 3 to provide computing power.

Stanford University's Folding@home program is...

Gamers looking for that one last excuse to stump up £425 next week when Sony's PS3 games console launches in the UK can now use the excuse that buying the console is help to cure ill people.

Sony today announced that the PlayStation 3 will...