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187 Researchers convert old phones into 'tiny data centers' — deploy one underwater for marine monitoring

Tom's Hardware
Tom's Hardware · 06/08/2025 09:56 EDT

Researchers convert old phones into 'tiny data centers' — deploy one underwater for marine monitoring

A group of researchers from the University of Tartu developed a way to reuse old smartphones as an edge node to process data in real-time.

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