Google is backing UC San Diego's plan to turn retired Pixel smartphones into cloud computing clusters. The company wants to turn the motherboards from retired smartphones, connect thousands of them together, and use them as a low-cost computing platform. Google wants your old smartphone. And now it does not want to refurbish it or sell it again. Instead the company believes it could help build mini data centres. In a new research project focused on reducing the environmental impact of computing, Goog... [3434 chars]
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