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Weekly innovation newsletter by Yuichiro Yoshinari (winyy) - Issue #27

Weekly innovation newsletter by Yuichiro Yoshinari (winyy) - Issue #27

winyy Issue #27投票が数日後に迫った大統領選挙の盛り上がりと共に、いずれの結果になってもデモや暴動が起こるのではないかという懸念も広がっています。今週注目したいのは「Teslaが自動運転オプション(FSD)の価格を1万ドルに値上げ」というニュース。このオプション、3年半前に私が買った時は3000ドルでした。GPUの自社開発、ソフトウェアの完成度が上がってきたことで、明らかに車の「価値の源泉」が変わってしまったことを示しています。今やTeslaは1台のModel 3を売るよりも、1つのFSDモジュールの方が利益は多い状況と言われています。先週一番クリックされた記事は、"Rural North Carolina residents will soon get their meds delivered by drone"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 #27As heating up the presidential campaign, a possibility of rally or riot after the election is getting concerned even with any result. This week, I would like to pick up the news that Tesla will raise Full Self-Driving option price to $10,000. When I bought it 3.5 years ago, it was $3,000. After releasing its own designed GPU and raising the accuracy of self-driving software, " a source of value" has obviously shifted from the body of car to the software. It is said that Tesla's profit of the FSD module is higher than Model 3 itself.The most read news last week was "Rural North Carolina residents will soon get their meds delivered by drone".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 31, 2020

　　来年4月に自動運転船が大西洋横断

As the pandemic fuels demand for less contact and fewer sailors, shipping companies turn to AI-assisted navigation.

MITが自律運転ボートを開発

MIT looked at the original Roboat as “quarter-scale” option, with the Roboat II being half-scale; they’re slowly working up to the point of a full-scale option that can carry four to six passengers.

StarlinkのPublic Betaサービスが月額$99でスタート（米国カナダ国境付近の緯度でサービス開始。残念ながらカリフォルニアではまだ始まらず）

SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellite will cost early beta testers $99 a month, not including the $499 upfront cost for the hardware kit needed to access the network.

自動運転車のレースでクラッシュ事故

An autonomous racing car got off to a terrible start in a recent contest when it veered off the track from a standing start and drove straight into a wall.

WaymoとDaimlerが自動運転トラックで提携

Waymo and Daimler are partnering to develop self-driving trucks destined for the US.

Waymoがフェニックスで実施している自動運転実験の詳細を公開。610万マイルを走行、うち6.5万マイルはドライバーが乗車せず。9か月間の事故は18件。ここまで透明性を保つのですね。

Waymo’s vehicles have driven a total of 6.1 million miles in Phoenix, Arizona, where it first started testing its self-driving technology.

気球インターネットLoomの気球が最長滞留記録。312日でほぼ地球を一周

Google Parent Alphabet has revealed that one of its Loon balloons spent 312 days aloft, breaking its previous stratospheric flight record of 223 days, by a wide margin.

シャワーの水流で発電する電源いらずの浴室用スピーカー

Accessories manufacturer Ampere is launching a Kickstarter for a new water-powered shower head speaker called Shower Power. The device offers Bluetooth connectivity and a waterproof remote for use when the device is out of reach.

ハンバーガーのパティを焼くロボット

Miso Robotics’ Flippy ROAR — that’s short for Robot-on-a-Rail — showed promising results in its pilot with White Castle, enough for the burger chain to sign on to deploying the robot in 10 more locations.

想像以上に水が月面に存在

New studies show water ice is available on the lunar surface—a promising sign for future lunar colonies.

デザイン思考の価値を測定する試み

In the scramble to stay relevant, there's a growing number of companies looking to design thinking as a means of maintaining their competitive advantage...

デザイン思考のIoTへの適用

Using design thinking’s six personas, you can build a powerful tool to identify the needs of your IoT solutions.

人生設計にデザイン思考を使う

Too often, financial planning is viewed only as a math problem

デザイン思考は今後貴重になるデジタル人材７つの一つ

Paradox: More automation requires more human talent, McKinsey study confirms. "We’re not looking for people with skills; we’re looking for people who can learn skills.”

Teslaの自動運転オプションが値上げされ$10,000に

Tesla has made good on founder and CEO Elon Musk’s promise to boost the price of its “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) software upgrade option, increasing it to $10,000 following the start of the staged rollout of a beta version of the software update last week.

電動スキーターLimeの利用が回復傾向

Lime just reached an important milestone: 200 million rides. And the company is pushing to reach another milestone: profitability. Lime CEO Wayne Ting talks to us about the COVID pandemic and how scooters could be the future of city transportation.

ベイエリアの生活費の高さからシリコンバレー以外でマイクロエコシステムが育っている

You can now innovate from anywhere. Which location is best for your business?

Vision Fundがゴーストキッチンに1億2000万ドル投資

“We’re building a decentralized ghost kitchen,” is a sentence that could launch a thousand investor calls, and Alex Canter, the chief executive officer behind Ordermark, knows it.

決済サービスStripeがカーボンキャプチャープロジェクトに投資

Stripe unveiled a new feature that allows its customers in the US to give some of their revenue to projects that aim to address climate change by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. It’s the latest move Stripe has taken to boost carbon capture technologies.

VC投資活況。ベンチャー融資も好調。起業家からはVCよりもよいとの反応も

The American venture capital world has staged an impressive comeback from the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic.

ハイブリッド勤務への移行進む。Google社員の6割はいつかはオフィスへの復帰を希望

The “hybrid workplace” is Silicon Valley’s latest buzzword, as tech companies start giving people more options for how and when and where they get stuff done.

Honeywellの量子コンピューター

After a few months of teasing, the company has finally shed more light on its new System Model H1 quantum computer, a machine it claims offers the highest “quantum volume” in the industry.

GE Digitalの事例

GE Digital: an ongoing digital transformation journey Article page | Manufacturing Global

パンデミック下で企業が採った行動例

Continuous pandemic technology planning is therefore essential, but – at the same time – technology pandemic planning can be the largest driver of digital transformation in history.

デジタルトランスフォーメーション成功のめの４つのヒント

A lack of strategic clarity, an output-based focus, and tracking too many digital touchpoints can lead your digital transformation efforts astray. Focus on the following metrics instead.

BCGの調査：デジタルトランスフォーメーションの成功への６つの要因：30%だけが目標を達している

Boston Consulting Group identified six success factors, including an agile approach to all operations and putting digital natives in leadership roles.

One lesson that has emerged in the pandemic: Organizations with the right culture and technology have quickly adapted when needed. Digital transformation success requires speed and trust – and that comes down to people, CIOs say.

Businesses both big and small had to reevaluate their digital transformation plans due to the pandemic

深層学習で偏微分方程式の解を精緻化

Partial differential equations can describe everything from planetary motion to plate tectonics, but they’re notoriously hard to solve.

「彼の印象は、彼が（ブッシュ大統領を操っていたと言われる副大統領の）ディック・チェイニーだということだ」「彼を過小評価するのは間違いだ」

Suga Yoshihide, who replaced Abe Shinzo, must now tackle the coronavirus and stagnating economy ahead of the Olympics — all in one year.

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga says his government is working on the final details of a plan to release massive amounts of radioactive water being stored at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, a decision that has been delayed by protests

分断のメカニズム。自分たちの支持政党を愛するよりも、反対政党を憎む傾向

American political polarization has reached alarming heights, shows a new study.Democrats and Republicans hate the other side more than they love their own party. The sectarianism grows worse despite the fact that differences between the sides are not so dramatic.

ACBは米国経済をどうかえるか？

Her views are ambiguous—her backers are not.

スズメバチ退治スーツ

The suits worn by Washington state entomologists aren't "official" hornet-fighting armor. But they were affordable—and came up in an Amazon search.

SF市がVerilyのサービスを利用停止

San Francisco has stopped partnering with Google-affiliated Verily at its community...

Now they’re going to be buzzing through the skies of rural North Carolina thanks to a novel delivery service devised by drug-maker Merck and drone-maker Volansi.