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Weekly innovation newsletter by Yuichiro Yoshinari (winyy) - Issue #24

Weekly innovation newsletter by Yuichiro Yoshinari (winyy) - Issue #24

winyy Issue #24今週はトランプ大統領の退院があり、副大統領候補の討論会があり、。ラジオニュースなどでは郵便投票の仕方を説明したりしていて、一気に盛り上がってきた感があります。先週一番クリックされた記事は、”Quantum computing meets cloud computing: D-Wave says its 5,000-qubit system is ready for business"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 #24This week, there were President Trump's discharge from the army's hospital and the running mates debates. At a radio news, it explains how to do for a mailing ballot. It looks heating up.The most read news last week was "Quantum computing meets cloud computing: D-Wave says its 5,000-qubit system is ready for business".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.

October 10, 2020

米軍では軍用犬にARゴーグルをかけさせ、指示を送る研究をしている

Augmented reality goggles for dogs could help issue commands remotely to military canines. The US Army is developing the technology with private firm Command Sight. The goggles also send video footage back to the dogs’ handlers.

AmazonがRivianに10万台発注したEVトラックのデザインが公表されました。社内にはAlexaを装備

Amazon’s fleet of delivery trucks is finally getting a little greener.

Waymoがフェニックスで自動運転サービスの対象を拡大へ

Three years after coming to Phoenix, Waymo plans to open its fully autonomous cars to the city’s wider population.

Virgin Hyperlookによる実験施設がバージニア州の炭鉱跡地に

Virgin Hyperloop One will test its futuristic technology in West Virginia, where it will build its first certification center. The center will be a proving ground for a hyperloop system designed to whisk floating pods packed with passengers and cargo through vacuum tubes at 600 mph or faster.

メルセデスベンツのeスクーター

Mercedes-Benz has launched its first electric scooter, a rugged two-wheeler with a top speed of 12 mph and a 15-mile range.

超音速旅客機に向けた試験機XB-1

Boom Supersonic unveiled its XB-1 demonstrator plane that’s capable of speeds of Mach 1.3. The plane will start test flights in 2021, which the company hopes will help it finish its commercial jet, Overture.

Adidasがロボット製造のシューズのプロトタイプを発表

Adidas new Strung technology uses a robot to place thousands of individual threads across a shoe’s upper. The result is a chaotic, lightweight trainer

GPT-3が人気のフォーラムサイトに1週間コメントを投稿し続けたが、誰もAIによる投稿と気付かず

Busted: A bot powered by OpenAI’s powerful GPT-3 language model has been unmasked after a week of posting comments on Reddit. Under the username /u/thegentlemetre, the bot was interacting with people on /r/AskReddit, a popular forum for general chat with 30 million users. It was posting in bursts of roughly once a minute. Fooled ya—again: It’s…

デザイン思考による学校教育での問題解決事例が米国教育省の全米ブルーリボンスクール賞を受賞

Two UVA professors worked with administrators and teachers at Baker-Butler Elementary School to develop a design-thinking curriculum that has contributed to the school’s success in closing achievement gaps.

富士通がデザイン思考を取り入れてDXを推進

For short, they're calling it Fujitra.

私生活にデザイン思考を取り入れる

Design Thinking is an approach adopted by designers, engineers,strategists, marketers, & artists to redefine problems & find an innovative & unique solution

巨大になったテック企業への圧力が強まっています

It wasn't long ago that the tech titans of today were aggressive upstarts setting out to make our lives easier. What happened?

暗号通貨取引所大手Coinbaseが9月下旬に導入した政治的な問題の職場への持ち込み禁止（人種、LGBTQ、移民の話題も対象とされる）に抗議して社員の５％にあたる60人が退社

Coinbase offered employees a generous severance package if they didn't believe in banning social activism, including support of Black Lives Matter, at work. Sixty people—and counting—took the buyout and left.

Adobe Photoshopの新製品。色の調整はまぁそうなるだろうという範囲ですが、写った人の顔の向きを変える機能は凄い！

A new Guided Edit will help you create perfect landscape images.

AlphabetとSoftbankによる空飛ぶ形態アンテナ。Softbankは天空の城ラピュタとようコメント

Alphabet’s Loon and SoftBank’s HAPSMobile announced that they successfully provided an LTE connection from a fixed-wing solar-powered aircraft for the first time. Turning planes into flying cell towers could help improve internet coverage in remote areas and during disasters.

配送サービスのユニコーンGoPuffがSVの有力VC Axcel、ビジョンファンドから出資を受ける

GoPuff is a Philadelphia-headquartered startup that delivers products like over-the-counter medicine, baby food and alcohol (basically, the stuff you’d buy at a convenience store) in 30 minutes or less. Yakir Gola, who serves as co-CEO with his co-founder Rafael Ilishayev, told me their goal is to create “the go-to platform for over-the-counter medicine or household […]

Salesforce Venturesが社会課題の解決に特化した2号ファンドを1億ドルで立ち上げ

When Salesforce Ventures launched the first $50 million Impact Fund in 2017, it wanted to invest not only in promising cloud businesses, but startups with a socially positive mission. Today, the company launched the second Impact Fund, this time doubling its initial investment with a new $100 million fund. The latest fund is also designed […]

テスラの共同創業者で元CTOのバッテリーリサイクルスタートアップ

JB Straubel, the Tesla co-founder and former CTO, is often cast as the humble and pioneering engineer, the quiet one who toiled away in the background for 15 years on some of the company’s most important technologies. That characterization — which intensified as the hype and media attention on Tesla CEO Elon Musk grew — […]

自動運転に使われるLidarを人の検知センサーに応用

Everyone in the world is rethinking shared spaces right about now, and part of that rethink is understanding how they’re used, minute by minute and day by day. Density’s tiny ceiling-mounted radar finds and tracks people unobtrusively but with great precision, letting the powers that be monitor every table, chair and office. Okay, in some […]

セキュリティソフト会社マカフィーの創業者が脱税で逮捕

John McAfee has been indicted on charges of tax evasion by the Department of Justice (DOJ). He has been arrested in Spain and is awaiting extradition. McAfee has also been sued by the SEC for not disclosing that he was paid to promote initial coin offerings (ICOs) on Twitter.

AIがローマ皇帝54人の顔に色を付けた

A designer used AI to analyze photos of ancient busts to derive the faces of 54 Roman emperors.

Three digital leaders explain how the challenge of dealing with the coronavirus has changed how their organisations will exploit technology in the longer term.

デジタルトランスフォーメーションを長期的な成功に変える４つステップ

Four key digital transformation steps that leaders need to focus on today in order to create a lasting digital footprint tomorrow.

デジタルトランスフォーメーションが組織を混乱させないようにする4つの方法

Enterprises have been working against a “digital transformation or die” mentality for several years now—but the stakes have never been higher than during the pandemic.

Walmartのデジタルトランスフォーメーション事例

The coronavirus pandemic has forced companies to reformulate tech strategies and pivot to IT agility, resilience, and speed.

IBMが既存IT事業をスピンオフし、クラウドとAIに特化

IBM, a company that originally made its name out of its leadership in building myriad enterprise hardware (quite literally: its name is an abbreviation for International Business Machines), is taking one more step away from that legacy and deeper into the world of cloud services. The company today announced that it plans to spin off […]

NASAによるハッカソンの結果

On September 11, NASA conducted its first Digital Transformation Hackathon, a virtual event that tapped more than 200 employees to quickly developed prototypes

地球より生命に適した惑星が24個特定される

Scientists have identified two dozen superhabitable planets outside of our solar system that may be better suited to sustain life.

この記事についているビデオを是非。浮世絵の技術が西洋よりも綺麗な色付け写真を生んだというのは驚き

The best hand-colored photos of the 19th century came from Japan.

The secretary of state, in Tokyo, aims to bring Japan, Australia and India into a tighter coalition of democracies to contain Beijing.

Super Nintendo World will now open at Universal Studios Japan in Osaka next spring. A themed cafe and shop will open on October 16th.

副大統領候補の討論会の勝者は？

Kamala Harris and Mike Pence faced off in 2020’s only VP debate. Here’s who came out ahead.