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SETI@home stops sending out new work

When: 31 Mar 2020
Where: Berkeley, CA
Sources: 2 public sources

The SETI@home logo; the project stopped sending out new work in March 2020 Al Piskun, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

UC Berkeley's SETI@home, which used volunteers' home computers to search radio data for alien signals, stopped distributing new work on March 31, 2020, citing diminishing returns. The team moved to analyzing its accumulated results.

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OfficialSETI@home (project home page: 'SETI@home is in hibernation') (opens in a new tab)University of California, Berkeley
PressSETI@home stops searching for aliens (for now) (opens in a new tab)Engadget / 2020-03-04

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