We fired up Folding@home on our PS3 today to see just how much damage that Cell processor could do to one of them work units. The app is a separate download from that of today's 1.6 firmware, thought ...

Although Sony intimated last summer it planned to let PlayStation 3 owners use those powerful Cell processors for good (well, “good” other than gaming), the company made it official today: by the end ...

At last year's Tokyo Game Show, Ken Kutaragi gave a keynote address that contained little new PlayStation 3 information. It did, however, outline how the PS3's massive computing power would be used ...

Ever since Sony released its 1.60 firmware update for the PlayStation 3 that included a Folding@Home client, the machine has simply dominated the charts in the distributed computing community. Our own ...

Just Friday we were gushing that the Folding@Home project, with the help of a few Spartanesque PS3s, had topped 500 teraflops. Apparently, that was too good to be true. Just now, as approximately 30k ...

Pressing the "Home" button at any time—even when you're in the middle of the game—will bring up the Home Menu while momentarily suspending whatever you were doing before, without losing your place in ...