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The Snow Men Cometh: Kurt Vonnegut, Ice-Nine And White Christmas On Demand
Kurt Vonnegut’s science-fiction novel “Cat’s Cradle” revolves around a tricky compound called ice-nine that can turn water solid at room temperature. Vonnegut, who worked for GE in the 1950s as an...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
The largest Slurpee in the solar system is a billion years old, rubbing stem cells into wounds could be the next big thing, and antimatter behaves according to the laws of physics. What a relief. You...
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Finding the Next Mark Zuckerberg Is Hard Enough, But What About In Nigeria?
In cultures that equate success with higher education, how can you foster wider entrepreneurship? Mary Olushoga, AWP Network founder, describes how a business plan competition backfired and what the...
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Flesh Memory: The Heart Goes Out To The Cloud
Five years ago, Fabien Beckers left his home in Paris and arrived at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business with a Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge in his pocket, and — like many of his...
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Look Up! An Out-Of-This-World Holiday Spectacular
Get ready for a new kind of light show after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launches in late 2018. The supersensitive device will fly to a spot a million miles from Earth and then orbit the sun. It...
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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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If Two Countries Waged Cyber War On Each Other, Here’s What To Expect
The scale of cyber attacks on companies are becoming more threatening. What would happen after an assault on a nation’s grid? An interconnected world has made us more susceptible to the dangers of a...
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All You Want For Christmas In 2027: These Stocking Stuffers Are In Your Future
You don’t have to be a die-hard geek to start assembling your holiday list of the future today. We will help you. Over the last year, we visited a number of GE labs and talked to the scientists and...
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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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GE At 125: These Pioneers Helped Shape The Way We Live [Video]
GE will be 125 years old in 2017, and the company has shaped many aspects of modernity we now take for granted. Over the last few years, we’ve visited pioneers such as Nick Holonyak, who developed in...
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10 Tech Stories From 2016 You Should Know About
A power plant hidden in a cave drilled deep into the Swiss Alps, a jet engine so large it could swallow Shaquille O’Neil with Kobe Bryant sitting on his shoulders and DNA research that’s helping...
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An Expert’s 6 Bright Ideas On The ‘Golden Age Of Renewable Energy’
Meet Nick Miller, a power-systems engineer with a passion for integrating renewables into electricity grids. Here’s a guy who can ramp up a high-energy discussion just by rubbing wind and sun together....
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11 Coolest Things On Earth This Year
Last January, we decided to launch a weekly column taking stock of the most exciting research taking place in labs around the world. It’s been a blast. We’ve learned about a novel written by an AI,...
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Best Photos of 2016: The GE Edition
Every year, GE sends photographers, filmmakers and other artists around the world to document its technology in action. 2016 was no different. Pilot and photographer Adam Senatori flew to the...
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Automation Isn’t The End Of The World — Here’s Why
Robots probably will take our jobs. That doesn’t have to be bad news, writes Leonardo Quattrucci, policy assistant to the Head of the European Commission’s European Political Strategy Centre. The...
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Dr. Data: This Software Sniffs Out Sick Power Plants Before They Go Dark
If a bearing starts to wobble in Korea, will it be felt in Kuala Lumpur? The answer, increasingly, is yes. GE has been using software to monitor big machines remotely, detecting bad vibrations, pesky...
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Soon, The Only Tech Jobs Will Be Design Or Data
The robots are coming for web programming. And coding schools will soon be obsolete. Even an engineer admits: with increasing automation, technology will soon replace the majority of tech jobs...
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He Puts Sunshine In Your Pocket: Tespack’s Mobile Solar Power Plant Charges...
You can access 2 million apps on your mobile devices, but what are they good for when the battery runs out? Nada, says entrepreneur Mario Aguilera, who learned the drawbacks of quick-draining batteries...
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This Robot Doesn’t Feel Your Pain
As the approaching winter solstice shrouded Oslo in gloom and darkness last month, the workers at a GE factory located in the Norwegian capital found their cheer in a bright green robot known...
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With Bio-Texture Modeling, Feeling Is Believing For 3D-Printed Replica Organs
Dr. Maki Sugimoto created lifelike organ models with 3D imagery and printing to diagnose and treat patients with more information. For example, he thought surgeons could better understand a tumor’s...
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