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Weekly innovation newsletter by Yuichiro Yoshinari (winyy) - Issue #16

Weekly innovation newsletter by Yuichiro Yoshinari (winyy) - Issue #16

winyy Issue #16バイデン陣営の副大統領候補（こちらでは伴走者running mateと言います）がカリフォルニア選出のカマラ・ハリス上院議員（元州司法長官）に決まりました。日本では女性・黒人というコンテクストでの報道が多いようですが、こちらではシリコンバレー出身でありシリコンバレーを理解した初めての候補という報道も目立ちます。指名争い序盤で資金が集まらず撤退した経緯がありますが、ここにきてこれだけ注目されるのですから、分かりません。先週一番クリックされた記事は、”ブレイクスルーイノベーションと企業の抗体（Breakthrough innovation and corporate antibodies）"という記事でした。今週号も気に入ってもらえたら、メールの末尾の「いいね！」ボタンをお願いします！拡散大歓迎。サインナップはこちら。winyy Issue #16Biden's running mate has been announced as CA Senetor Kamala Harris. She is also seen as the first candidate of Silicon Valley.The most read news last week was "Breakthrough innovation and corporate antibodies".Enjoy this issue!Please press the 'Like it' button at the end of the email if you like this issue.Sign up page is here.

August 15, 2020

水素駆動のスーパーカー

Hyperion's XP-1 supercar is here (at least, in video form). The hydrogen-electric vehicle claims a 1,000 mile range and top speed of over 220 miles per hour.

トロントではうまくいきませんでしが、リベンジなるか

The state of Michigan is partnering with an Alphabet subsidiary called Cavnue to potentially build a 40-mile autonomous corridor between Detroit and Ann Arbor.

イノベーションへのインセンティブの与え方がうまい

Pay more attention to what Gates is doing overseas than what he’s saying about the United States.

脳に性差はない

Over a century of research has tried to determine whether the size, shape, or function of male and female brains differs. However, they've come up with very little evidence to suggest that the men and women have hair-wired neurological differences. Learn more in this article.

これはすごい。全く見分けがつかない。スタンフォードの研究。ぜひビデオも見てください

An new AI allows us to answer the question of what it would look like if Roger Federer played himself.

野口宇宙飛行士も登場するCrew-1の打上日が10月23日に決定

NASA and SpaceX have announced a date for the first operational mission of the new Crew Dragon capsule to carry astronauts to the International Space Station.

火星に海があったらこう見える

What if 71% of the Martian surface was water, just like on Earth? Then this is what Mars would look like - a map produced by Nepali engineering student A.R. Bhattarai. Mars is no longer red, but green and (mostly) blue, and its surface is dominated by two supercontinents: one of which is centered on a giant plateau, the other on a giant inland sea.

Design is changing the manner in which leading organizations make value. When design thinking principles are applied to innovation and strategy, the success rate for innovation significantly improves.

Some corporations believe they’ve got the rigor down in the form of lots of meetings, procedure and the rule book. If we don’t also master wonder, then people will burn out. Rigor isn’t sustainable without wonder; and wonder is found in the midst of rigor.

To safeguard customer loyalty and drive sustainably innovative solutions, some supply chain experts are turning to the design thinking methodology, which focuses on four crucial behaviors.

Y-Combinatorはあまり賢くならないように努めている。賢くなりすぎると未来のAirbnbを見逃すことになる

Running a startup accelerator comes with a number of occupational hazards, but “skepticism is the easiest thing to fall into when you’ve seen too many companies,” said Y Combinator President Geoff Ralston, “and it’s the thing you have to avoid the most.” Ralston joined me last week for an hour-long Extra Crunch Live interview where […]

Airbnbが上場準備

Airbnb plans to file for an IPO in August, which could lead to a listing before the end of this year. The home-sharing company has had to cut costs in recent months, but vacation rentals are starting to see a resurgence.

裁判の行方がプラットフォーマーの影響力を決めることになります

Epic Games, the maker of the popular game, provoked the tech giants by violating their policies, then released a social media campaign and lawsuits to confront them.

カリフォルニア州裁判所のドライバーを従業員として扱うべきという判決でUber/Lyftがサービス一時停止の可能性

Uber CEO says the company may suspend service in California if the court doesn't rule in its favor.

パニックは過ぎ、スタートアップへの投資は堅調

The doomsday warnings about tech start-ups failing in the pandemic have not yielded the shakeout that many expected a few months ago.

　GE Digitalが持ち直してきている

GE Digital CEO Pat Byrne shares insights from his first year and the role of digital transformation as companies work through uncertain times.

GE Digital is the cornerstone of GE's digital transformation efforts, but the transition has been far from easy. GE Digital has retrenched its general-purpose digital platforms, including Predix, to focus on four industry verticals. Here, CEO Patrick Byrne discusses the current state of GE Digital.

With a holistic transformation strategy, AI can create wonders.

Every year, I make my predictions for 10 of the biggest trends in digital transformation. With Covid-19, we saw massive change in a short period of time. In this post we look back at the predictions for 2020, and how the pandemic impacted the adoption of new tech and digital trends.

From the saboteur to the capacity monster, these five personalities can hurt grassroots support for your digital transformation. Here's how to deal with the challenges.

Big Data turns to be the superhero pivoting digital transformation efforts in the right direction to optimize results.

われわれのDNAには未知の祖先のDNAが含まれている

We knew modern humans intermixed with some other species of human, but a new study suggests that another genetic relative's legacy lives on in our DNA.

SoftBank is back in the black with a $12 billion profit after important Vision Fund bets recovered.

“We’re not going to go back to pre-corona tourism.” Mayor Kodakawa of Kyoto

The bustle of visitors has disappeared from places such as Japan’s ancient capital of Kyoto—only to be replaced by dissension over whether they should ever be welcomed back.

Toshiba has sold its remaining stake in its laptop business to Sharp, effectively quitting the PC industry.

Silicon Valley has a potential ally in its future with Kamala Harris, a California senator who has strong ties to executives behind the nation’s technology giants and has been largely silent about the antitrust issues currently plaguing them.

Kamala Harris's rise to power runs parallel to Silicon Valley’s own rise from technology hub to one of the world’s most powerful and influential centers of business.

Most read news last week.

If companies want to be on the leading edge of breakthrough innovation, they have to neutralize the corporate antibodies that try to kill any new ideas that threaten the status quo.