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This Is What We Call A Bright Light: GE Just Put Alexa Into An LED Lamp

Don’t be surprised if in the coming year you see people starting to talk to their lights — telling them to adjust the thermostat, order dinner and even read the latest headlines.That Jetsons-like...

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High 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...

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From Preemie to Preschool: The Miracle Twins Strike Back

Twin brothers Ethan and Noah Caisley are typical mischievous 4-year-olds. Just the other day, they came up with a plan for one of them to bust out of their preschool while the other created a...

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Could You Soon Fly An Airplane With Your Mind?

By 2030, there won’t be language as we know it today. It will be the language of the brain. We are on the brink of a revolution in mind technologies, from the road to the skies, according to a Q&A...

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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

This week’s haul includes a rocket engine that breaks the laws of physics, a look at the serious side of putty, and astronauts who are about to go fishing for space junk with the help of a century-old...

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The Whole Earth Catalog: Google Updates Its Planetary Picture Show

Last week the world’s largest search company released an updated version of the Google Earth Timelapse, a gripping visual treat exposing the planet’s changing surface going back to 1984.Working with...

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Make It Bigger: Ike Eisenhower And This GE Engineer Have Something In Common

Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower claimed that whenever he ran into a problem, he’d “always make it bigger” to see the outlines of a solution. But you don’t need to be a U.S. president to believe that bigger is...

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After 50 Years Of Isolation, Myanmar’s Clear Agenda For Infrastructure Emerges

Once the ribbon is cut in a new market, how do you build success? After nearly two decades, the U.S. officially lifted economic sanctions against Myanmar by executive order in October. John G. Rice,...

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The California Duck Must Die (But It’s Not What You Think)

Solar power might be a shining example of a great renewable-energy source. But combined with existing infrastructure, it’s wreaking havoc on California’s electric power grid. So much so the problem...

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Good Pill Hunting: How Biotech Fell In Love With Beantown

Boston has a long history of medical breakthroughs going all the way back to Onesimus, an African slave who introduced Cotton Mather to inoculation during a smallpox epidemic in 1721. This was seven...

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A Way Through The Dark: Pakistan’s Clean Energy Development Opportunity

Blamed on years of mismanagement, an endemic energy crisis in Pakistan has crippled the economy and led to misery for millions. Can an improved power supply boost foreign direct investment there?...

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Tiny Giant: This Bitty Switch Aims To Supercharge 5G Mobile Networks

The flight attendants are about to shut the cabin doors when you realize you forgot to download that sci-fi blockbuster you were looking forward to watching during the flight. As they tell you to shut...

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Software For Santa? Using Data To Optimize The North Pole

There are nearly 2 billion children under the age of 15 living in the world, up from 1 billion in 1960. In fact, kids seem to be everywhere these days, but, strangely, the shockwaves of this population...

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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Can Mail Be Efficient Like Email?

Last year, 154.2 billion pieces of mail were processed and delivered by the U.S. Postal Service. Even in the age of email and other digital communication, mail remains a critical channel for customer...

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GE’s 2017 Annual Outlook: Changing The Game With A Digital Industrial Strategy

Every year, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt hosts a meeting with analysts and investors to walk through the company’s strategy and financial goals for the upcoming year and review major wins from the...

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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Mice with reprogrammed cells stopped aging, paralyzed humans fed themselves with a robotic hand controlled by a cap, and a new 3D printer produced complex tissues made from living cells. Nothing...

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The Heaviest Haul: A New Locomotive Factory Will Put This Indian State On The...

The Indian town of Marhaura isn’t on many tourist destination lists.Located on the western edge of Bihar, one of the country’s most densely populated and least developed states, the town has an economy...

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Jeff Immelt: Localization Can Help America Win Around The World

In an excerpt from an essay in TIME Magazine, Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman and CEO of GE, describes why global engagement is an economic opportunity for the U.S. and the world. Is globalization bad?...

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Labracadabra Scientists! Have Yourself An Experimental Holiday

For anyone seeking to discover their inner Edison, the holidays have come a bit early this year. That’s because last week GE launched a do-it-yourself science channel on YouTube that gives viewers the...

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Beth Comstock: 6 Ways Companies Can Be Faster, Smarter And More Adaptive

By the time you’ve gathered enough information to make a decision, the time to make that decision has already passed. This has been a periodic problem faced by managers for decades, but with the speed...

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