{"id":2272,"date":"2013-03-01T07:24:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T12:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2013-03-01T07:28:44","modified_gmt":"2013-03-01T12:28:44","slug":"play-games-cure-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=2272","title":{"rendered":"Play Games, Cure Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am wholeheartedly encouraged by <a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/03\/01\/cancer-technology-game-idINL6N0BRADP20130301\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Networking computers to increase processing power is nothing new. \u00a0But three of the world&#8217;s biggest tech giants, Google, Facebook and Amazon are looking to develop a game for your smartphone that is both fun but let&#8217;s you help in the search for cancer curing drugs.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scientists from a British cancer charity are teaming up with technology gurus from the likes of Amazon, Facebook and Google to design and develop a mobile game aimed at speeding the search for new cancer drugs.<\/p>\n<p>The project, led by the charity Cancer Research UK, should mean that anyone with a smart phone and five minutes to spare will be able to investigate vital scientific data at the same time as playing a mobile game.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The game is slated to come out mid 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Kudos to these companies. They are OfficiallyAwesome for doing this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am wholeheartedly encouraged by this story. Networking computers to increase processing power is nothing new. \u00a0But three of the world&#8217;s biggest tech giants, Google, Facebook and Amazon are looking to develop a game for your smartphone that is both fun but let&#8217;s you help in the search for cancer curing drugs. Scientists from a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-officiallyawesome","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}