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Chips Ahoy: The Port Of LA Will Get A Digital Upgrade
The day after Christmas last year, a massive cargo ship called the Benjamin Franklin docked in the port of LA. As wide as 14 freeway lanes, longer than three football fields and 20 stories tall, the...
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Eye Robot: New Virtual Onsite Trainers Are Helping Hospitals Get The Most Out...
In the hushed halls of the Universitario Quironsalud hospital in Madrid, there’s a new sound — the chatter of experts who are thousands of miles away helping doctors get the most out of their new...
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How Renewable Energy Is Taking A Page From Bitcoin
The problem of “too much” renewable energy on a grid can be solved with blockchain, a technology most often associated with bitcoins. Blockchain will provide a transparent way for households and...
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Seeing the Unseen: Ultrasound’s New Role in the Fight Against Breast Cancer
Patti Beyer is a positive person by nature. But the 64-year-old retired educator was concerned after she requested, and received, a breast ultrasound-screening exam. After years of normal mammograms...
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No Laughing Matter: The World Is Running Out Of Helium, But It Won’t Hold...
Ever since the 1980s, doctors have been using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to peer inside their patients’ bodies without exposing them to ionizing radiation. But there have been trade-offs.MRI...
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This Paris Clinic Can Diagnose Breast Cancer In A Single Day
The suburb of Villejuif in the south of Paris will never rival the Eiffel Tower as a destination site. Yet every day the brightly lit waiting rooms and cavernous hallways of the Gustave Roussy clinic...
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Move Over Lean Six Sigma, Here Come Smart Operations
The digital transformation of manufacturing is forcing industrial companies to get smart. A trend toward “Smart Operations” has become an industry-wide priority, like Lean Six Sigma was in the 1990s,...
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This Floating Giant Will Revolutionize The Natural Gas Industry
It’s not unusual to see giant cruise or cargo ships out at sea today. But even by those standards, Shell’s new floating liquefied natural gas facility is huge.Dubbed Prelude after the gas field where...
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Beam Me Up, Herve: This Engineer Helped Design A CT Machine That Accelerates...
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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Edison’s Heir: Bob Hall’s Invention Lit Up The Future
You could argue that the future was born in GE’s labs in 1962. That was the year Robert N. Hall demonstrated the first semiconductor laser, which made possible everything from price code scanners to CD...
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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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Kurt’s Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut was GE’s PR Man Before Becoming a Bestselling...
Before Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote the bestsellers Slaughterhouse Five and Cat’s Cradle, he lived near Schenectady, New York, and worked as a GE publicist. According to Vonnegut’s biographer Charles J....
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This Is What We Call A Sea Change! Shell’s Floating Giant Will Revolutionize...
It’s not unusual to see giant cruise or cargo ships out at sea today. But even by those standards, Shell’s new floating liquefied natural gas facility is huge.Dubbed Prelude after the gas field where...
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3.5M Manufacturing Jobs Need To Be Filled – Will Millennials Step Up To The...
With a looming manufacturing skills gap that’s expected to lead to 2 million unfilled jobs, the industry is trying to recruit today’s youth and Millennials. How are they doing it? It turns out inviting...
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These Scientists Are Hacking The Immune System To Fight Hackers
Hackers have hit everyone from Minecraft players to the Internal Revenue Service and an aide to a U.S. presidential contender. But few attacks could have larger and longer-lasting implications than an...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Diamond batteries made from nuclear waste, a 3D-printed dog’s nose that could sniff out bombs and cancer, and video games that can improve eyesight — these are just some of the eye-popping discoveries...
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The First Spielberg Blockbuster: GE Computers [Video]
One day, when he was still barely a teenager, the film director Steven Spielberg came to visit his father, Arnold, at work. It was the late 1950s and the elder Spielberg was building computers for GE...
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What Do AI And Fighter Pilots Have To Do With E-Commerce? Sentient’s Antoine...
Sentient Technologies CEO Antoine Blondeau describes how a principle for fighter pilots is applicable to the design of automated intelligent systems. And these new advances in artificial intelligence...
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Amazon’s Alexa And The Destiny Of The Internet Of Things
Today, GE announced its latest LED table lamp featuring Amazon Alexa. It’s only the beginning for the smart home of the future, according to Charlie Kindel, director of Amazon Alexa Smart Home. 1....
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Sticking The Landing: Behind The Winning App At GE’s Industrial Internet...
Hackathons are like Olympic-level gymnastics competitions but for software developers. Competitors set aside their lives and work like crazy with the hopes of coming home the victor. For a team of five...
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