An engineer reverse-engineered McDonald's app to map every broken ice cream machine
Rashiq Zahid's McBroken bot tries adding a McSundae to a cart at every US McDonald's every 30 minutes; the cart is the sensor, the menu the status page.
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A travel publisher turned its media audience and five multilingual reviewers watching 1.5M chats into the loop that took its bot from 85% to 98% accuracy.
事例を読むMadrid nearly tripled its metro in 12 years at a fraction of London's per-mile cost
Madrid tripled its metro in 12 years: regional power, standardized stations and round-the-clock tunneling beat the good-fast-cheap trilemma.
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An MIT team textured surfaces at micro/nano scale so capillary forces anchor a lubricating oil - a slippery coating 70+ companies signed up for.
事例を読むLebanon's dollar market moved into WhatsApp groups after the banks failed
A hundred WhatsApp groups became a live FX order book; exchangers arbitrage hour-by-hour rates while the official peg pretends it's still 1997.
事例を読むKytch hacked McDonald's broken ice cream machines for franchisees — until a ban killed it
An internet-connected gadget tapped the Taylor machine's internals, decoded its operating data, and kept the famously broken machines running.
事例を読むKenya's Uber drivers circulated union fare cards pricing rides 50% above the app
A 15,000-member drivers' union circulated laminated rate cards at least 50% above Uber's fares; once the cards were everywhere, passengers stopped resisting.
事例を読むKelvin's insulated radiator wrap cut steam-heat energy 43% without replacing the boiler
A sensor, fan and insulated box on each old radiator gives tenants control and evens heat through the building — 43% less energy at an 80-year-old complex.
事例を読むVietnamese mothers livestream supermarket runs to prove imported formula is genuine
Hàng xách tay Facebook shops stream UK supermarket purchases live, making authenticity proof the sales channel itself.
事例を読むGoogle put a mole inside TeamPCP and watched history's worst supply-chain hack from inside
A Mandiant persona spent months earning trust until hackers invited it into their inner circle — letting Google warn victims and disrupt the extortion.
事例を読むGogoro's swap stations doubled as a virtual power plant when Taiwan's quake hit the grid
After the April 2024 earthquake, 590 Gogoro battery-swap stations dropped 6 MW of demand in seconds, helping the grid recover in 12 minutes.
事例を読むGitHub killed its CSS-in-JS runtime with flags, shims — and AI agents for the tail
GitHub's Primer team migrated the whole design system off styled-components over three years without breaking github.com — SSR time fell 55% along the way.
事例を読むGamePlan guards Macs with Apple's Pac-Man game-logic engine
Digita's Patrick Wardle repurposed Apple's GameplayKit, the rule engine behind video-game behaviour, to evaluate macOS security events and flag the suspicious.
事例を読むDeepMind's FunSearch coaxed a code LLM into new mathematics — cap set included
Let an LLM write candidate programs, let a checker score them, recycle the best back as prompts: a few days yielded a new, verifiable cap-set result.
事例を読むFedEx's two-armed DexR robot loads delivery trucks like 3D Tetris
FedEx and robotics startup Dexterity built DexR, a two-armed AI robot that plans and stacks randomized boxes into tight walls inside delivery trucks.
事例を読むMexican clothing brand Fachos goads opponents into quote-tweeting it to viral reach
Fachos posts deliberately offensive content to bait prominent critics into amplifying it — one politician's angry quote-tweet lifted site visits 300%.
事例を読むHow universal screening ended the golden age of hijacking (interview)
In a Vox interview, author Brendan Koerner recalls 159 US hijackings in 11 years — and how the FAA's January 5, 1973 screening order finally stopped them.
事例を読むExcel Dryer cut hand-drying from 40 seconds to 12 — and sales grew 10% a year
Told its product was hated, a Massachusetts dryer maker hired retired MIT physicists, found 90% of dryer energy was waste, and built the 12-second Xlerator.
事例を読むDuke's sepsis AI worked by flipping hospital hierarchy: nurses alert the doctors
Sepsis Watch scores ER patients hourly and gives rapid-response nurses the call — flipping the hospital hierarchy was the price of making it work.
事例を読むDouyin came last to livestream commerce and won with a closed loop and tiny take rates
Entering after Kuaishou and years after Alibaba, Douyin coupled 1–5% commissions with feed ads and on-platform checkout to dominate livestream shopping.
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