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500 PUBLISHED CASES · REGULARLY UPDATEDModern 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.
Read the caseMasala 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.
Read the caseMagazine 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.
Read the caseLufthansa added a 16-euro fee for tickets sold via booking sites to steer buyers direct
Lufthansa Group's 2015 surcharge on third-party bookings billed the costly GDS channel to its users and tilted sales to its own site.
Read the caseLowe'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.
Read the caseLet'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.
Read the caseKumu 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.
Read the caseKarlsruhe 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.
Read the caseJames 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.
Read the caseOffshore 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.
Read the caseGoogle 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.
Read the caseGoogle 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.
Read the caseFilo & 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.
Read the caseFacebook 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.
Read the caseDoNotPay'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.
Read the caseBT'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.
Read the caseBlue 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.
Read the caseApple 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.
Read the caseAdGood 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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