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This Macbook charger shows how technology has grown exponentially

Idea to Value

In a brilliant component teardown article from 2015 by Ken Shirriff , he opened up the Magsafe charger which powered Apple’s laptop at the time. As a comparison, the 68000 microprocessor in the original 1984 Apple Macintosh worked at a frequency of about 7.6 This is a 16bit chip working at about 16 MHz.

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The State of Innovation Management in 2015 Just Released

Paul Hobcraft

The Surge of innovation reports in 2015. I am sure you have experienced that in 2015 we have seen a significant surge in innovation reports, many of these coming from large consulting firms or innovation publishers. I decided this would be valuable to save you time or reconnecting to some good reports that came out in 2015.

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Virgin just invested in new supersonic jets which travel faster than Concorde

Idea to Value

In comparison, Concorde’s top speed was around 1,350mph. With some estimates that affordable supersonic mass travel could eventually become a $100bn industry, compared to the total 2015 airline industry value of $742bn , this really could be the next big leap in travel. It will travel 2.6

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Google Analytics 4: What It Is and Its Impact for Your Businesses

Brunner

For our current clients, Brunner set up GA4 properties in July 2022, ensuring that these clients would have one year of web analytics GA4 data for comparison come July 2023. When IMPAQT was acquired by Merkle in 2011, Kevin remained in his role until moving to Brunner in 2015. Here’s how we did it.

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#2,078 – China’s Weather Modification System

Greatest. Idea. Ever.

Weather modification, by comparison, is relatively inexpensive. By 2015, there were rainmaking and hail-suppression programs in 30 Chinese provinces , employing some 35,000 people.” Because of that ongoing toll, the government has staked its legitimacy in part on how well it responds to such incidents.

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Will Xiaomi Stop the iPhone in China?

Outside Innovation

million smartphones in the first half of 2015, 33% more than for the same period last year. By comparison, Huawei’s sales surged 48% over the prior quarter.". At the April 2015 Xiaomi festival, the company sold over 2 million smartphones and pulled in 2.08 million additional connected devices in Q1 2015. Tony Sagami.

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We Need To Prepare For Future Crises Like We Prepare For War

Innovation Excellence

In a 2015 TED talk , Bill Gates warned that “if anything kills ten million people in the next few decades, it’s most likely to be a highly infectious virus rather than a war. Yet it pales in comparison to what we can expect in the future. Not missiles, but microbes.” It’s an apt point. That’s an enormous amount of money.