Futuristicon Aims to Fight Cancer by Selling Games
How does this new service fight cancer, then? While a revenue share with charitable causes is certainly a possibility, that's not the core of this new service's mission. Rather, Futuristicon aims to use the power of its customers' computers. Sharing is Caring BOINC — Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing — is an open-source project with a laudable goal: take a little bit of computing power from a lot of people and use it to make some important calculations. BOINC projects calculate solutions to complex problems for astrophysics, biology, mathematics, and pretty much ever...