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A Lateral Way to Expose War Crimes and Fight Disinformation

Destination Innovation

In 2014 he founded Bellingcat as a journalistic group which would investigate war crimes and major incidents using open source intelligence (OSINT). Bellingcat’s first major success was its investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 (MH17) which was shot down on 17 July 2014 while flying over Ukraine.

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Evolution of Hyperloop: Propelling innovation the Elon Musk way

hackerearth

He said the price for a ticket would rival that of an economy airline flight. Back in 2014, Elon Musk wrote an article “ All our patents belong to you ” and opened the Tesla patents to the entire industry. Musk could have made the Hyperloop a secret project, created patents, and formed a successful company.

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Why you need extreme constraints to fuel innovation

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In 2014, the Stanford bioengineer, Manu Prakash built a 50-cent paper microscope, the origami Foldscope, with all the functionalities and efficacy of a standard microscope. In this video, watch Bhamla and Prakash build a hand-powered centrifuge for 20 cents! Their most profitable customers have the highest return rates!

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A new value chain for next-generation mobility

Corporate Innovation

According to a UN report in 2014, 54% of the population lived in urban areas, and by 2050, an additional 2.5 This is common practice today in the airline industry. Today, each TNC runs its own reservation system, much like airlines used to do in the past. billion people will be added to these areas. Fleet insurance.

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Monitoring User Experience Through Product Usage Metrics

Boxes and Arrows

This article builds off of the work of Digital Telepathy/Google Ventures (2016) and Pavliscak (2014), but focuses less on process and methods and more on specific metrics that may be of value to UX teams. The authors thank Liz Aderhold, a UX professional at Alaska Airlines, for her help reviewing a draft of this article. Caveat emptor.