Detect Earthquakes with Your MacBook


	Detect Earthquakes with Your MacBook

Andy Greenberg

4-22-2008 4:29 PM

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earthquakes, san francisco, apple, macbook

Andy Greenberg says:

An interesting sort of crowdsourcing program...reminds me of that SETI project to analyze space data with distributed computing.

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