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Here’s The Skinny On Aerodynamics Of The Perfect Free Kick
The science behind a successful set piece involves three important forces on the soccer ball. Theoretical physicist Ken Bray shows visually how it all works. Football has seen many innovations during...
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Yes, They’re Playing Video Games, But It’s Work: How GE Tapped Gamers To...
After work on Friday, there are few things Claudio Cargnelli likes more than sitting with his kids on the sofa at his Toronto home playing “Clash of Clans,” a video game where barbarians and pyromaniac...
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Call Of Duty: This Woman Is Using Video Games, Kinect And VR To Make Actual...
Virtual reality became domesticated last year — at least in America — when the VR viewer Google Cardboard arrived for the first time with the Sunday New York Times. Today, you could use it to explore...
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These Are The Top 10 Emerging Technologies Of 2016
The World Economic Forum’s annual list of emerging technologies, released this summer, include both familiar and unfamiliar discoveries. Experts believe this is the year they will most impact...
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Elevator Maker Schindler Group And GE Digital Take The Industrial Internet To...
The Swiss company Schindler Group may not be a household name, even though its products are inside many malls, airports and office buildings around the world. The 142-year old company is one of the...
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My Turbine Lies Over The Ocean: It Takes Herculean Labor To Build America’s...
Eric Crucerey and his team can move mountains. Well, maybe not mountains, but machines that dwarf the Statue of Liberty.Crucerey, who works for GE Renewable Energy, is the project director in charge of...
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China’s Growth Rates Will Rival India’s For Years to Come
American companies are watching history in the making as India and China become economic superpowers — even though both face some headwinds. Anja Manuel, a former State Department official and now...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about a tiny robotic stingray bioengineered from rat heart muscle that can navigate an obstacle course, 3D-printed “micro-rockets” made from biodegradable silk that could one day...
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Try This At Home! This Kid Built An Incredibly Detailed Model Of A Boeing 777...
Luca Iaconi-Stewart says he’s “a crazy guy who loves aviation.” That might be an understatement. The 24-year-old spent the last seven years in his parent’s house building an exquisitely precise replica...
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Algorithms, Like People, Discriminate Too
Who will be held accountable when big data analytics discriminate in the marketplace? Nuala O’Connor, President & CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, explains there are no algorithms...
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Farnborough Airshow, An Aviation Grand Slam, Takes Off Today In England
Many planes heading to the Farnborough International Airshow, which opens just outside of London on Monday, start their descent over Wimbledon’s famous tennis courts. It’s an apt landing route. Just...
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We’ve Got An Exclusive Look At Boeing’s Brand New 737 MAX Jet
Boeing test pilot Ed Wilson brought this weekend to England the American plane maker’s brand new, next-generation Boeing 737 MAX passenger jet. He flew it here for the Farnborough International Air...
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GE And Microsoft Join Forces To Give The Industrial Cloud Extra Power
The industrial cloud is about to get a lot bigger.GE and Microsoft Corp. are uniting their cloud computing technologies in a partnership that will bring GE’s Predix platform for the Industrial Internet...
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Are You Ready For The World’s Largest Jet Engine? It’s As Wide As A Boeing...
A 10 percent increase in fuel efficiency might not sound like a lot, but in aviation, according to Wired, “engineers would step over their own mothers for a one percent bump.”As large in diameter as...
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Where Jet Engines Take a Licking But Keep On Ticking
Every day is a bad day for flying if you hang out with Brian DeBruin. DeBruin runs GE Aviation’s jet engine test operations site in Peebles, Ohio, and his job is to make sure that GE engines keep...
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We’ve Watched The World’s Newest Cargo Jet Swallow A Supersonic Car
The most unusual machine at this week’s Farnborough International Airshow in England isn’t a plane at all but a life-size model of the Bloodhound, a jet-powered car vying not only to break the speed of...
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The Airline Of The Future Will Be Powered By Data
The Industrial Internet is changing the way the world does business — and that includes at 35,000 feet. That fact is clearly on display at this year’s Farnborough International Airshow, which started...
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Are You Ready For The 18-Hour Flight?
Make sure to check out our playlist at the end of the article, inspired by Qatar Airways’ 18-hour flight. The oil embargo of 1973 was a miserable period when American towns banned Christmas lights to...
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Forget Iron Man: Skintight Suits Are The Future Of Robotic Exoskeletons
Exoskeletons don’t have to be the bulky armor-like suits imagined in science fiction. Researchers are developing soft, wearable robots that mimic muscle movements. These “second skins” could...
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Leave It To Software: Here’s How Data Analytics Will Make Airlines Fly Smarter
When the Dubai-based carrier flydubai started looking for new ways to make decisions based on the terabytes of data coming from its planes and pass the savings on to customers, the carrier did...
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