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This Ship Has Sailed: U.S. Navy Commissions An All-Electric Stealth Destroyer...
The U.S. Navy has commissioned for service the USS Zumwalt, its largest and most advanced stealth destroyer. The ceremony took place Saturday in Baltimore.The 610-foot-long, all-electric ship, which...
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Machine Nirvana: How GE Is Using AI to Build A Powerhouse Of Knowledge
GE was still essentially a startup when its managers hired young MIT chemistry professor Willis Whitney to open the company’s first laboratory in 1900. Unlike Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park “invention...
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This Unique Combo Of Wind And Hydro Power Could Revolutionize Renewable Energy
Wind is a clean, cheap source of renewable energy, but it’s also fickle. You can never be sure whether the wind will blow. But engineers in Europe have now found a way to crack this shortcoming by...
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10-Hour Workweek? Robots Taking Jobs Doesn’t Have To Be As Bad As You Think
Can technological advancement actually help us become fully human? Boston College psychology professor, Peter Gray, argues that an automated world could lead to happier and even more productive human...
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This Ship Has Sailed: U.S. Navy Commissions An All-Electric Stealth Destroyer...
The U.S. Navy has commissioned for service the USS Zumwalt, its largest and most advanced stealth destroyer. The ceremony took place in Baltimore on Saturday.Named after the late Adm. Elmo “Bud”...
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Keep Calm And Carry On: This Software Code Can Protect Subsea Rigs From...
As a senior robotics and machine-to-machine systems scientist, Judith Guzzo spends most of her days in a lab at GE’s Global Research Center in upstate New York. But in late June, she broke out the...
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Tips From A ‘Mindful’ Brain To Help You Become More Productive
Debbie Jeremiah, manager of GE’s Mindful Leader Program at the company’s management facility in Crotonville, N.Y., has used brain science and “neuroleadership” training to optimize her creative energy...
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GE’s New Aviation Plant In The Heart Of Europe Will Build 3D-Printed Engines...
Engineering marvels such as the gothic Charles Bridge spanning the Vltava River below the Prague Castle or the ornate astronomical clock in the Old Town Square have been drawing visitors to the Czech...
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This Unique Combo Of Wind And Hydro Power Could Revolutionize Renewable Energy
Wind is a clean, cheap source of renewable energy, but it’s also fickle. You can never be sure whether the wind will blow. But engineers in Europe have now found a way to crack this shortcoming by...
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Basic Income After Robots Take Our Jobs? That’s Not How Capitalism Works
Katharina Nieswandt, a philosophy professor at Concordia University, wants to debunk the claim that technology or robotics will lead to mass unemployment. The reality, she argues, is that productivity...
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GE Executes Well for Long-term Growth: Company Updates Earnings Outlook
GE released third-quarter results today. Industrial operating plus GE Capital verticals earnings reached $0.32 per share, up 10 percent compared with the third quarter of last year.The company also...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Everything in this week’s column is a little mysterious. Scientists in Colorado have created a new kind of sticky tape that in one important way isn’t sticky at all. Korean engineers have made a Star...
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The Hybrid Approach: L.A. Will Use Batteries To Make Power More Efficient
Earlier this year, thousands of residents in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles had to evacuate their homes and schools after a natural gas leak — the worst on record in the United States....
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AI Could Free People From Work – If We Let It
What would a future without work look like? It may be closer than you think. Artificial intelligence is redefining work as we know it. First there was outsourcing. Next up is “othersourcing.” Here are...
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GE’s New Aviation Plant In The Heart Of Europe Will Build Engines With 3D...
Engineering marvels such as the gothic Charles Bridge spanning the Vltava River below the Prague Castle or the ornate astronomical clock in the Old Town Square have been drawing visitors to the Czech...
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Life Recycled: How A Simple Fungus Paved The Way To The Nobel Prize
Recycling has been an essential human activity ever since early cave dwellers fashioned new tools from flint and bone reclaimed from old or broken implements. You could even say that it is in our...
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The Story Of The 1st US Jet Engine: The Hush-Hush Boys Wanted To Win The War...
The PlotThe year was 1941. World War II was raging in Europe and Nazi bombers over London were as common as rain. It was also when a group of GE engineers in Lynn, Massachusetts, received a secret...
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The Best Football Analogy for Global Business Doesn’t Involve Touchdowns
Life lessons from sports: to succeed in a rapidly changing world economy, companies needs players adept at broken-field running. Trying to map out a long-term strategy through unpredictable global...
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Meet The Whisper Drive: This Machine Accelerates To 70 Gs To Peer Inside The...
When the first group of American astronauts started training for space flight in the 1950s, Air Force doctors put them through a number of wrenching trials. In one, they had to endure many multiples of...
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Watch: 4 Questions You’re Too Afraid To Ask About The Paris Agreement, Next...
In December 2015, 195 countries gathered in Paris for the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference (known as COP 21 after the 21st Conference of the Parties) and collectively agreed to reduce...
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