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People replace their phones every ~4 yrs. This means there are hundreds of millions of old phones discarded each year that are still perfectly usable …

People replace their phones every ~4 yrs. This means there are hundreds of millions of old phones discarded each year that are still perfectly usable as computing devices. @Google in collabration with @UCSD is exploring how to turn these old phones into cloud-computing “phone clusters”. Putting phones back in service i