Not using your computer at the moment? You can now donate your computer's idle time to cutting-edge biomedical research aimed at finding a cure for HIV, Parkinson's, arthritis, and breast cancer. Not ...

It was June 2011, and Jeff Martens' nascent cloud computing company, , had never tested its core technology -- harnessing the processing power of idle computers so others without massive ...

Idle grid computing — applying unused computer time to a task — is a great solution in need of a problem. Hundreds of millions of computers sit unused two-thirds of the day. Most of these PCs have the ...

Michela Taufer, a computer scientist at the University of Delaware, wants to find a cure for HIV, and she wants your help. No ph.D.? No problem. She’s created Docking@Home, a project supported by the ...

The World Community Grid wants to turn you spare computer power into life saving change around the globe. Sponsored by IBM, the WCG is a nonprofit that partners with research teams to help them ...

Researchers studying Alzheimer’s Disease need your help, and a program that runs on your idle computer could make a real difference, according to CIO.com blogger ...

When people say they work 40 hours a week, are they really working 40 hours—or are they spending a lot of that time waiting on colleagues to respond to emails, chatting with coworkers, and wasting ...

CPUcoin, a developer of a sharing economy for cloud computing power, today announced the launch of its system for paying people for their idle processor time. The first CPUcoin-earning Compute ...

The popular Digsby instant messenger client not only bundles half a dozen "optional" crapware applications, it's also using your computer to crawl the web, do stock market research, and more. It's ...

Idle Crawler is a potentially unwanted program, or PUP, that is commonly bundled with other downloads. When installed, Idle Crawler does not create any Start Menu shortcuts or Desktop icons. In fact, ...