Fans saved 47 of 54 iPod clickwheel games by pooling DRM authorizations in one VM
Reddit user Olsro built a shared iTunes virtual machine holding authorised copies of 47 delisted games that can sync to any iPod offline.
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500 VERÖFFENTLICHTE FÄLLE · REGELMÄSSIG AKTUALISIERTModern States aimed free online courses at AP and CLEP exams so MOOC learners earn credit
Steven Klinsky's nonprofit sidestepped colleges' credit rules by teaching to exams they already accept, a possible free first year.
Fall lesenMasala y Maiz serves its full menu with no bill; diners write how much goes to staff
Mexico City's Masala y Maiz runs pay-what-you-can days with an envelope and a staff-share line, and says it does not lose money.
Fall lesenMagazine Luiza opened stockless micro shops in hyperinflation Brazil to expand cheaply
From 1992 customers browsed a computer catalogue in tiny stores and had goods delivered from depots, so stores held no stock or price tags.
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Lufthansa Group's 2015 surcharge on third-party bookings billed the costly GDS channel to its users and tilted sales to its own site.
Fall lesenLowe's paid one flat price for employees' surgery at chosen hospitals, saving money
Lowe's bought joint surgery as one bundled price from selected hospitals, so the hospital owned complications and Lowe's still saved after paying for travel.
Fall lesenLet's Encrypt had IdenTrust cross-sign past its own expiry, keeping old Android online
Android ignores expiry dates on trust anchors, so a cross-sign outliving the old root kept 845 million older phones connected.
Fall lesenKumu Networks let one radio send and receive at once, doubling capacity in carrier trials
A Stanford spin-out cancelled a radio's own outgoing signal at its receiver, doubling spectral efficiency in LTE tests.
Fall lesenKarlsruhe ran trams onto mainline rail tracks, and ridership on the Bretten line rose 400%
Dual-voltage trams let a city of 300,000 skip a metro tunnel by sending suburban trains through the centre on existing tramlines.
Fall lesenJames Paget Hospital builds a 28-bed ward in a factory, to halve build time
A factory-built, 41-module concept ward lets groundwork and construction run in parallel, as a test for England's 40 new hospitals.
Fall lesenOffshore casinos advertised free-to-play twin sites to dodge New Zealand's gambling ad ban
JackpotCity and Wildz ran ads for near-identical free sites, one click from the paid casino; regulators called it unlawful.
Fall lesenGoogle grafted a Rust DNS parser into the Pixel 10 modem instead of rewriting it
After Project Zero exploited Pixel modems, Google added a 371KB Rust DNS component to legacy C/C++ firmware rather than rewrite it.
Fall lesenGoogle read black-market bot-account prices as a scoreboard; a VoIP block lifted them 30%+
Google tracks what criminals pay for hijacked accounts; when the price falls, a defence has a hole, and it targets that bottleneck.
Fall lesenFilo & Fibra revived wool-lined cooking boxes in Tuscany to cut households' gas use
A nonprofit turned a 1941 booklet's straw box into a local-wool one: boil briefly, then let the pot finish cooking unheated.
Fall lesenFacebook judged accounts by their friends' behavior so spammers could not game the rules
Facebook's deep-entity classifier scores an account from its network's aggregate patterns, which abusers cannot easily see or change.
Fall lesenDoNotPay's Free Trial Card approves only $0 trials and declines every real charge
DoNotPay issued virtual Visa cards that its own system approves for free trials and declines once money is due, so users never need to cancel.
Fall lesenBT's Etc turns spare power in UK street cabinets into EV chargers, no new grid link
Rather than wait for grid upgrades, BT's incubator draws unused electricity from telecom cabinets it already owns, 60,000 of 90,000 of them.
Fall lesenBlue Visby Solution let grain ships sail slower by guaranteeing a berth on arrival
A 2024 trial cut two grain ships' CO2 by 7.9% to 28.2% by turning port waiting time into slower sailing.
Fall lesenApple Pay paired NFC, one-time tokens and Touch ID, and out-ran rival phone wallets
Apple Pay hid real card numbers behind single-use codes and a thumbprint, and its early volumes beat Google Wallet.
Fall lesenAdGood sells nonprofits the streaming ad slots that go unsold, from about $5 CPM
Blank 'we'll be right back' ad breaks on connected TV become cheap airtime for charities, with self-serve AI ad-making.
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