PlayStation Update Adds Vita Trophy Support, Discontinues Life With PlayStation App

<p>On Wednesday&comma; the 24th of October&comma; Sony will be releasing software update version 4&period;30 for the PlayStation 3&period; This update will allow users to view PlayStation Vita Trophies on their PlayStation 3&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 4&period;30 update will also terminate the Life with PlayStation application&period; The service itself will end at the beginning of November&period; The termination of the program includes the termination of the partnership with Stanford University’s <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;folding&period;stanford&period;edu&sol;English&sol;HomePage">Folding&commat;home<&sol;a>&comma; a distributed computing project aimed at understanding protein folding&comma; misfolding and studying the causes of a variety of diseases such as Parkinson’s&comma; Alzheimer’s and cancers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>We’d like to thank the more than 15 million users that have participated in the program since it started on PS3 in 2007&period; PS3 users have donated in total more than 100 million computation hours to the Folding&commat;home project to date&comma; and as a result&comma; contributed greatly to Stanford University’s Alzheimer’s disease research&period; Considering the contribution PS3 has made to the project&comma; we decided the termination as a result of discussions with Stanford University&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Vijay Pande&comma; Folding&commat;home lead researcher at Stanford University said&colon;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The PS3 system was a game changer for Folding&commat;home&comma; as it opened the door for new methods and new processors&comma; eventually also leading to the use of GPUs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We have had numerous successes in recent years&period; Specifically&comma; in a paper just published in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry&comma; we report on tests of predictions from earlier Folding&commat;home simulations&comma; and how these predictions have led to a new strategy to fight Alzheimer’s disease&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The next steps&comma; now underway at Stanford&comma; are to take this lead compound and help push it towards a viable drug&period; It’s too early to report on our preliminary results there&comma; but I’m very excited that the directions set out in this paper do appear to be bearing fruit in terms of a viable drug &lpar;not just a drug candidate&rpar;&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&lpar;Via the <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;blog&period;eu&period;playstation&period;com&sol;2012&sol;10&sol;22&sol;ps3-system-software-update-v4-30-view-ps-vita-trophies-on-your-ps3&sol;">PlayStation Blog<&sol;a>&rpar;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;