An old iPhone or dead Android might not be junk after all

This could potentially hit two birds with one stone — reduce e-waste and reduce data center component demand.

Google Research frames the project around "embodied carbon," the emissions tied to manufacturing devices in the first place. Smartphones, which most people replace every few…

Ein Forscherteam der US-Uni San Diego schaltet gebrauchte (Pixel-)Smartphones zu Clustern zusammen, die der Lehre dienen: Phone Cluster Computing.

An old iPhone or dead Android might not be junk after all