2016 Annual Outlook: Immelt Optimistic About GE’s Digital Industrial Future
GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt took over Studio 8H inside New York’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza this afternoon to give his annual vision for the company in 2016 today. Addressing a crowd of investors and...
View ArticleThis MRI Imaging Technique Helped Clinicians Unmask Silent Liver Disease
Nobody wants to be told they are going to die. Yet that’s the prognosis Wayne Eskridge received from his doctors in 2010. The diagnosis was a stage-four case of cirrhosis of the liver. As he and his...
View ArticleRobert Glennon: Why a Higher Price for Water Makes Sense
Without sensible water prices, industry has no incentive to innovate and conserve. Industrial users are not paying enough for water. The same goes for farmers, commercial businesses, municipal...
View ArticleNew Production Process Could Help Break Imaging Isotope Shortage
As aging nuclear reactors require increased maintenance, and even shut down completely, the strain on their production is being felt far beyond the energy industry: inside oncology and cardiac clinics....
View ArticleHow GE Brought Rudolph, The Red Nosed Reindeer To Life
It’s hard to imagine, but there was a time when GE still needed to sell the general public on the value of artificial illumination. So it made sense for the company to devote an episode of the General...
View ArticleGoing Number One Or Zero: This Japanese Company Just Brought The Binary Code...
Building a house or renovating an apartment typically involves brute force and noise, frayed nerves, busted budgets and, sometimes, poisoned relations with neighbors. But homeowners in Japan can now...
View ArticleFinancial Times: GE Healthcare To Improve Organic Growth With Digital Technology
John Flannery, GE Healthcare’s chief executive officer, told the Financial Times that when he started his job last year, he “didn’t come with a mandate to do big M&A.” Instead, Flannery, who held...
View ArticleTop 15 Perspectives of ’15
Explore some of the more thought-provoking opinions and lively debates among contributors to our Perspectives section over the past year. As 2015 draws to a close, it’s time to look back at some of the...
View ArticleLED Us See the Future: From Christmas Trees to Intelligent Streets, These...
GE engineers started lighting the National Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C. in 1963, one year after their colleague Nick Holonyak invented the world’s first visible light-emitting diode (LED).Today,...
View ArticleInto Thin Air: The Lofty Side Of Jet Engine Testing
New GE jet engines must pass a litany of hardships on the test stand — from bird strikes to hailstorms — before they get to take to the air.But even then they are not finished. One of the steps...
View ArticleThis MRI Imaging Technique Helped Clinicians Unmask Silent Liver Disease
Nobody wants to be told they are going to die. Yet that’s the prognosis Wayne Eskridge received from his doctors in 2010. The diagnosis was a stage-four case of cirrhosis of the liver. As he and his...
View ArticleFrom the Mysteries of the Universe to the Riddles of the Body: Inside GE’s...
When Ernest O. Lawrence invented the cyclotron in 1932, the American physicist used his innovative particle accelerator to probe the structure of the atom. The cyclotron earned Lawrence the Nobel Prize...
View ArticleA Toy Gone Wrong: Edison’s Monster Doll Was One Gift People Were Happy to Return
Not everything Thomas Edison touched became raging success. His “monster doll” turned out to be an outright dud.In 1877, Edison made the first recording device that could play back sound, and from...
View ArticleThe Future of Science Is Big (Data) and Tiny (Nanoscale) – Interview with...
The head of the National Science Foundation discusses the promises and challenges of science and tech research, including the need to scale up the U.S. innovation ecosystem and make it more evenly...
View ArticleGE Reports Makes Best Branded Content List
The brand publishing mavens at Contently included GE Reports on their list of the best branded content in 2015. “If Red Bull is the popular skater-jock at your high school, GE is the hot valedictorian...
View Article2015 In Review: GE’s Digital Industrial Revolution
GE has been around for more than a century, but few years in its history have been as important for the future of the company as the one that’s just ending. GE started transforming itself into the...
View ArticleBest Pictures of 2015: The GE Edition
Every year, GE sends photographers, filmmakers and other visual artists around the world to document its technology in action. 2015 was no different. Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Vincent Laforet...
View Article19 Tech Stories From 2015 You Should Know About
There were many tech stories that caught our eye in 2015. Here are 19 examples that either touch on GE technology and research or received funding from the company. They stretch from the depths of the...
View ArticleCan Communications Satellites Help Fight Climate Change?
Information and communication technology has an important role to play in helping countries meet their climate goals — both from a mitigation and adaptation standpoint as well as in the efforts to...
View Article2015 In Review: GE’s Digital Industrial Revolution
GE has been around for more than a century, but few years in its history have been as important for the future of the company as the one that’s just ending. GE started transforming itself into the...
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