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Weekly innovation newsletter by Yuichiro Yoshinari (winyy) - Issue #9

Weekly innovation newsletter by Yuichiro Yoshinari (winyy) - Issue #9

winyy Issue #9今週のニュースの影の主役はソフトバンクが買収した英国半導体設計会社ARMですね。世界最速のスパコンとして話題になった富岳に使われ、Appleがインテルから乗り換えを発表しました。自動運転でもAmazonによるZoox買収、VolvoとWaymoの提携と動きがありました。そして、先週一番クリックされた記事は、”組織変革にデザイン思考のすすめ”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 #9A hero behind the scenes this week was ARM as its CPUs were used massively at Fugaku, the fastest super computer from Japan, and Apple announced to switch from Intel. There were also big movements with Amazon's acquisition of Zoox and Waymo&Volvo's partnership in the area of Autonomous driving.The most read news last week was "Five Design Thinking Steps For Organizational Transformation".Enjoy this issue!Please press 'Like it' button at the end of email if you like this issue.Sign up page is here.

June 27, 2020

NASAが月面でのトイレのデザイン募集中！

As NASA looks to send people back to the Moon for its Artemis program, the agency is starting a new competition, calling on members of the public to design a toilet that astronauts can use on the Moon. The toilet will go inside a future human lunar lander that will take people to and from the surface.

Follow wind for Tesla's Semi

テスラのEVトラックSemiに追い風

The state of California is requiring all trucks to be zero-emission beginning in 2024, thanks to a new mandate from the California Air Resources Board. The regulation, which CARB calls the “first in the world,”is meant to be a step towards California meeting its long-term emissions goals. The rule would apply specifically to medium- and heavy-duty trucks weighing 8,500 pounds or more.

This summer, Starbucks is selling a breakfast sandwich made with Impossible Foods' plant-based sausage in the US.

You can make your own Pulse with a few parts and a 3D-printed case.

Electrify America's first cross-country EV charging route stretches from Washington DC to LA.

'Design thinking' is a term that has gained popularity shortly after the shift in work culture in Dhaka was noticed. It is an iterative process in which a clearer, more detailed picture of the problem is perceived. Through challenging assumptions as a tool for identifying alternative strategies and solutions, design thinking provides a solution-based approach to solving

In a blog post this Friday afternoon, Y Combinator’s president Geoff Ralston said that the accelerator would make two changes to its terms for startups. The first would see the size of the standard deal for YC startups decline from $150,000 for 7% (roughly a $2.1 million post-money valuation) to $125,000 for the same equity […]

The move, announced in the live-streamed start to the company’s conference for developers, marks the end of a 15-year partnership.

It's also a cost down strategy

ARMへの乗り換えはコストダウンにもなる訳ですね

Earlier this week, Apple announced that it would begin shifting its Macs from Intel chips to its proprietary ARM-based processors, with a complete transition planned by 2022. The benefits are clear from a strategy standpoint - by designing its own processors, Apple will control the Mac experience...

COVID-19による小売り・消費形態の変化がここにも

Microsoft has announced that it will be closing its chain of Microsoft Stores in the US and across the globe with the exception of four locations including stores in New York, London, Sydney, and Redmond.

Amazon is jumping deeper into the market for autonomous driving with the purchase of Zoox, which was valued at over $3 billion in 2018.

Volvo and Waymo struck a deal to work together on a fleet of electric self-driving robotaxis. Waymo will be the exclusive supplier of Level 4 autonomous technology to Volvo, including its subrands Polestar and Lynk & Co.

Two-thirds of companies have yet to see any revenues from their digital efforts, study shows.

Despite 94% of organizations pursuing IT modernization, 1 in 2 decision-makers admit their company isn’t innovating at a competitive rate

For small- and medium-sized businesses, the key to survival during covid-19 has been a rapid revamp of IT infrastructure in search of new business models and ways of working.

Digital transformation can be seen as a strategic decision for enterprises in times such as the pandemic, click to know more

Virgin Galactic has proceed a further step

昨年上場したVirgin Galacticが更に一歩前進

Virgin Galactic’s repeatedly-delayed plans for commercial spaceflight are drawing closer, after the company completed another glide test at its Spaceport America HQ in New Mexico.

Richard Branson’s space tourism company, Virgin Galactic, is partnering with NASA to coordinate private passenger trips to and from the International Space Station. Virgin Galactic will be responsible for finding customers who want to send people to space station, training the prospective astronauts, and finding rides to get them to orbit.

AIによる顔認証による誤認逮捕　システム提供会社にNECに名も

The opaque industry that sells facial recognition technology, and the patchwork of police policies that govern its use, have made effective oversight extremely difficult.

今週は富岳のニュースが踊りました。特別に同じニュースですが3本。ただ、AIに使えるGPUを積んでいないので直ぐに追い抜かされるとの批評も

The Fugaku supercomputer topped the world rankings at once for the first time in history. It has been put to work creating models to fight the coronavirus pandemic, but its designers now have bigger plans for it.

In the race for the most powerful computers, Fugaku, a Japanese supercomputer, recently beat American and Chinese machines.

Japan's Fugaku supercomputer, which the country built using ARM processors, is now the world's most powerful supercomputer in the world.

Erica will be Hollywood's first AI actor.

The "divorce" between Son and Ma comes as the golden age for global tech entrepreneurs seems about to be over.

BLMムーブメントは続いています

As the nation reckons with its history on race and the honoring of problematic figures of the past, focus has turned to ski resort Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows in North Lake Tahoe.

The film’s other Black actors weren’t allowed to attend the movie’s premiere with everyone else due to Georgia’s Jim Crow segregation laws, as well.

Most read news last week.

先週最も読まれたのは、組織変革にデザイン思考のすすめ from Forbesでした

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