Jet Engine So Large It Could Swallow A Subway Train Just Powered Through...
The deep woods around Peebles, Ohio, are hiding a secret so big that it could write the next chapter in the history of aviation. At one of many test sites spread over a secluded valley, GE Aviation...
View ArticleGulp! These Scientists Are Turning CO2 Into Fish Food
It’s not often that you hear about the virtues of carbon dioxide, one of the main contributors to global warming. But one refinery on the windswept west coast of Norway will soon start sequestering CO2...
View Article4 Steps Towards Faster, Smarter Factories
Smart manufacturing begins when factories go online. Saksham Khandelwal and Sudhi Bangalore of India’s Wipro predict that the Internet of Things will reverse the trend that brought the manufacturing...
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists in Germany used stem cells to repair damaged visual neurons in adult mice, their colleagues in China and England adapted a portion of the human gut to build a long-lasting battery, and a...
View ArticleWhen Time Is Not On Your Side: This Paris Clinic Can Diagnose Breast Cancer...
The suburb of Villejuif in the south of Paris will never rival the Eiffel Tower or the Louvre as a destination site. Yet every day the brightly lit waiting rooms and cavernous hallways of the Gustave...
View ArticleIn Just 4 Years, LEDs Will Outnumber Traditional Lighting – That’s Just The...
Technology is allowing $15 LED bulbs to now sell for a few dollars, and traditional lighting can’t hold a candle to those capabilities. With a home’s average 45 light sockets, the evolution of lighting...
View ArticleLand Of Silk And Lasers: Bespoke 3D Printing Factory For The Oil & Gas...
For decades, fabric factories on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como kept the fashion houses of Milan resplendent in silk. Today, a new kind of manufacturing in the fashion heartland is spinning up parts...
View ArticleGE And Baker Hughes To Form New Fullstream Digital-Industrial Service Company
GE and Baker Hughes agreed to combine GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes to create a world-leading oil and gas technology and services provider. The new name of the company will be Baker Hughes, a GE...
View ArticleThe Industrial Internet Is Helping This GE Lawyer Rest Her Case
The Industrial Internet usually is associated with wind turbines and jet engines equipped with sensors and streaming data into the cloud for analysis to predict outages and cut maintenance costs. Now...
View ArticleThis Discovery Could Help Us Regenerate Body Parts One Day
Pluripotent stem cells hold an almost magical place in the human imagination. These inveterate transformers start out in the embryo as biological blank sheets but change in developing animals and grow...
View ArticleThe Ethical Underbelly Of The Fourth Industrial Revolution
No technology is neutral, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution has brought us enormous powers, according to Mildred Solomon, president of The Hastings Center and Harvard Medical School professor. “Now...
View ArticleHigh Voltage: Watch Out AC / DC Is Getting Its Groove Back
America’s largest machine — the power grid — has been pumping lifeblood electricity from power plants to our homes and businesses for more than a century. The vast network of wires, switches,...
View ArticleMove Over Pokémon, GE Is Testing Augmented Reality Helmets In Qatar’s Giant...
What makes Pokémon Go so addictive? Blame it on augmented reality (AR), which populates what looks like the real world with Pokémon creatures. Now that technology is being used for a much bigger play...
View ArticleCubs Win: After Historic Game 7 Of The World Series, Here’s The Origin Story...
You know the result.As the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs squared off last night at Cleveland’s Progressive Field—in search of their first World Series wins in 68 and 108 years respectively—it was...
View ArticleHere’s What We Really Should Be Debating When It Comes To Trade
Of American micro and small businesses that sell on eBay, 97 percent export. Small online sellers are the new face of world trade. Export credit agencies must learn to support them, writes Kati...
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Extra! Extra! Invoking Maxwell’s demon, scientists at a U.S. government lab say the second law of thermodynamics may not always apply. Neutron stars, bones and pasta apparently have a few things in...
View ArticleHow Wearable Toys Are Helping Solve the Healthcare Crisis
Despite the promise of a revolution in health, consumer wearables thus far have delivered little more than a flood of meaningless data. Finally, that’s starting to change. A new approach that combines...
View ArticleAn Office With A View: New “Digital Foundry” In Paris Is Forging GE’s...
Ping-Pong tables and foosball aren’t the sorts of things people typically associate with a 124-year-old company that builds turbines for power plants and engines for planes. But they are part of the...
View ArticleHigh Light: The Night GE Electrified An Ancient Himalayan Village
The night the 700-year-old mountain oasis of Rakuru was to see its first electric light, the whole village gathered in the largest room and waited for someone to flip the switch.But nothing...
View ArticleBack To The Future: This GE Software Engineer Used Code To Bring New Muscle...
Grease monkeys have been tinkering with Ford Mustangs — the most iconic of the classic American muscle cars — ever since the first one rolled out in 1964. But a car enthusiast in Germany has taken...
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