Gamers, bitcoin 'miners' and other tech-savvy groups of people are being recruited as new resources in the battle against Covid-19.
A new project led by a group of researchers and computational biologists is networking hundreds of thousands of computers from around the world together, in a bid to form the 'brain' of one of the most powerful crowd-sourced supercomputers the world has ever seen.
To date, over 400,000 users have downloaded an application called "Folding@Home" that basically hooks your machine up to a network and allows scientists to use any 'spare' computational power to help accelerate research for a coronavirus treatment.