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Weekly innovation newsletter by Yuichiro Yoshinari (winyy) - Issue #8

Weekly innovation newsletter by Yuichiro Yoshinari (winyy) - Issue #8

winyy Issue #8今週もBlack Lives Matterに関連する動きが続いています。Googleは自社のセキュリティチェックで、前の人について入ってくる(tailgater)場合に黒人が呼び止められる確率が高かったとしてセキュリティシステムを変えることや2025年までに幹部の30％をマイノリティにするという発表をしています。そして、先週一番クリックされた記事は、アフリカの経済状況が衛星画像と機械学習から分かるというニュースでした。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 #8Announcements related to Black Lives Matter from Silicon Valley companies are continuing like Google and IDEO.The most read news last week was about the one that satellite imagery and machine learning advances will boost African consumer data.Enjoy this issue!Please press 'Like it' button at the end of email if you like this issue.Sign up page is here.

June 20, 2020

ロケットで行くよりも安全に宇宙を垣間見れそうです

The original founders of World View Enterprises are starting a new company called Space Perspective, focused entirely on sending humans into the stratosphere via high-altitude balloon. Their planned capsule, called Neptune, would leisurely take paying customers up to 100,000 feet, where they could view the curvature of the Earth.

As organizations venture into this new definition of "business as usual," one thing that remains clear is the need for digital transformation.

In early March I started getting calls from people trying to respond to what was clearly turning into a global pandemic. A government agency that funds R&D wanted help connecting its research teams with experts on scale-up and manufacturing. An academic lab was searching for folks in government or industry who knew about the ventilator…

Organizational Transformation and Design Thinking - an interesting angle.

組織変革にデザイン思考のすすめ from Forbes

Design thinking is a process of observation, implementation and creation.

The legendary design firm responds to critics of an Instagram post “centered on white guilt.”

ハワイの環境問題解決にもデザイン思考

Eventbriteはこちらではイベント集客のデファクトですが、同社プラットフォームでのイベント数は2020年5月は前年同月比82%減少であるものの、4月対比では33％増加

“Eventbrite is in the unique club that nobody wants to be in,” says CEO and co-founder Julia Hartz. “Which is the first affected and one of the most directly affected businesses of the COVID-19 era.” Hartz, who co-founded the company with her husband Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage, joined ExtraCrunch Live recently to discuss moving […]

Alphabet Inc's Google on Wednesday announced a new hiring goal and security policy to address racial issues at its offices, as protests over police brutality against African Americans have carried into discussions about corporate culture.

DoorDash has confirmed that it is raising “approximately $400 million” in a Series H round of funding. Earlier today, Axios reported that the company was looking for a roughly $400 million round at a post-money valuation of $16 billion. DoorDash clarified in a statement provided to TechCrunch that the valuation is slightly under the $16 […]

Lyftが2030年までにEV 100%にするとの野心的な目標

Lyft says it will work with automakers and rental car companies, as well as the millions of independent contractors who drive for Lyft, to electrify "100 percent" of its fleet by 2030. The effort is sure to be enormous and expensive, but Lyft won’t disclose how much capital it’s willing to spend on the project.

Facebookが位置情報領域にも進出

Facebook is pushing forward with its map-based ambitions.

SpaceXの次期ロケットStarshipは海上から打ち上げられるようになるようです

SpaceX is hiring for planned spaceports that would launch Mars and Moon missions, not to mention hypersonic flights here on Earth.

INSEADの教授によるB2B デジタルトランスフォーメーションの解説

The most common question we hear is, “Where do I start?” The answer is, “Where it makes the most sense from a customer’s point of view.”

The primary goal of digital transformation is still an enhanced customer experience, but the current crisis has made the path to achieving that more complex.

Digital transformation is enabled by technology but should be guided by the broader business strategy.

The discovery that led Nir Shavit to start a company came about the way most discoveries do: by accident. The MIT professor was working on a project to reconstruct a map of a mouse’s brain and needed some help from deep learning. Not knowing how to program graphics cards, or GPUs, the most common hardware…

日本のコロナ対策アプリはマイクロソフトが作ったのですね

Japan has released its coronavirus contact tracing app for iOS and Android. It’s called COCOA and is based on Apple and Google’s co-developed APIs.

Even in a country with relatively few deaths from Covid-19 and where theaters reopened a month ago, no one is going to the movies.

Southeast Asian ride-hailing and payments firm Grab said on Tuesday it would lay off more than 300 employees due to the impact of novel coronavirus, in the latest setback to major backer SoftBank Group Corp <9984.T>.

SoftBank Group Corp <9984.T> will invest $2 million or more in 14 U.S. startups led by black founders and other underrepresented groups, the company said on Thursday, as part of its effort to fund more a more diverse array of entrepreneurs.

警察に職務質問される時に映像を記録するアプリ。自分の身は自分で守るアメリカらしい

If the police pull you over, it can be a good idea to start recording video. This program for iOS devices makes it easy. Just say "Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over," and your iPhone will start recording footage automatically.

It was the first time that Twitter had used that tag on one of the president’s messages.

Most read news last week.

先週最も読まれたのは衛星画像を使ってアフリカの経済成長を測定できるという記事でした

Scientists were able predict consumer data variation down to the village or neighborhood level with up to 55% accuracy and assets wealth up to 75% accuracy.