This Is What We Call A Smart Car: Talking Batteries Will Help EVs Find Their...
Electric carmakers have spent more than a century searching for a way to make their vehicles truly competitive. It never occurred to them to ask the batteries.“Since Edison’s time, inventors have...
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It’s the start of 2017, and we can’t help but wonder what amazing scientific advances await. Judging by the year’s first haul, we may soon be able to push things around with tractor beams, print...
View ArticleWho Will Lead In Today’s Corporate World? How About A Veteran?
Former U.S. Air Force Crew Chief Jeff Schnitzer, who now works as a general manger at GE Energy Connections, shares stories about the unexpected ways his military service helps him do his job. How does...
View ArticleThat’s Hot: New Gas Could Eliminate This Super Strong Global Warming Culprit
Ask any farmer, and they’ll tell you that weather patterns have become erratic. Monsoon seasons, once as predictable as sunrises and taxes, now fluctuate wildly, making it difficult, if not impossible,...
View ArticleI Machine, You Human: How AI Is Helping GE Build A Powerhouse Of Knowledge
Every fall, GE Global Research holds a scientific gathering called the Whitney Symposium highlighting the latest scientific trends. Last year the two-day event explored industrial applications of...
View ArticleThe Factories Of The Past Are Turning Into Data Centers Of The Future
Datacenters are taking over the factories where workers once processed checks, baked bread and printed Bibles. What will the rise ofthe information-based economy mean for American cities? We live in a...
View ArticleThe Sword In The Virtual Stone: Archeologists Are Using Software And...
In 2012, Berlin conservator Katrin Lück brought a tiny, severely corroded lead scroll to GE’s Technical Solutions Center in the town of Wunstorf in northern Germany.Lück believed that the precious,...
View ArticleThe Last Of The Hush-Hush Boys: Joseph Sorota, Who Helped Build The First...
Joseph Sorota, likely the last member of the World War II-era top-secret team that designed the first U.S. jet engine, died Saturday at his home in Singer Island, Florida. He was 96.Sorota was still an...
View ArticleDon’t Try This At Home: You Can Fight Fire With Fire
When Bastard in William Shakespeare’s “The Life and Death of King John” tells the monarch, “Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye. Be stirring as the time; be...
View ArticleThe Futuristic Health Benefits Of Self-Driving Cars, Thanks to AI
In the future, self-driving cars won’t just prevent deaths from human error. An autonomous vehicle will reroute you to a hospital if a driver has a heart attack or a stroke, greatly increasing the...
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Scientists bioengineered salmonella that can kill the deadliest brain cancer, observed bacteria in a slime that “communicate with one another like neurons in the brain,” and tied the world’s tiniest...
View ArticleWhen Hardware Met Software: The Digital Twin Of This Huge Gas Turbine Will...
Khalid Salem has spent his entire GE career — all 16 years — selling power generation equipment to customers all over the Gulf. But last fall the Jordan native found himself in a Catch-22.Aluminium...
View ArticleHow A 10-Minute Conversation With A Machine Saved $12 Million
Unscheduled airplane maintenance is an $8 billion headache for fliers and the global airline industry. But a machine’s Digital Twin — a replica built with AI and a human mind — can minimize this. The...
View ArticleThe Sword In The Virtual Stone: Archeologists Are Using Software And...
In 2012, Berlin conservator Katrin Lück brought a tiny, severely corroded lead scroll to GE’s Technical Solutions Center in the town of Wunstorf in northern Germany.Lück believed that the precious,...
View ArticleThe Power of Power: How Reliable Electricity Is Helping Africa’s 2nd Most...
Brothers Flour & Biscuit Factory, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, makes cookies with evocative names like Dream Sandwich, Glory Banana and Cocktail Cream. But inside the factory, life if anything but...
View Article5 Tips To Navigate The New World Of Industrial Buying
The B2B online retail market is expected to double the size of the B2C online market by 2020. Caught in a digital tsunami with the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Here are five ways industrial...
View ArticleNew $1.4 Billion GE Power Deal Will Supply Iraq With Reliable Electricity
Frederic Ribieras spent the last three months living and working in Baghdad. He says the Iraqi capital is a different place from what you see on the news. “Iraq is not what you see on CNN,” says...
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about an A.I. potentially smarter that three-quarters of American adults, read about a soft robot that can keep a weak heart beating and watched Venus do The Wave. Raise your arms...
View ArticleAmazon Turns To Wind To Power Its Cloud
Amazon may be the largest online retailer in the world, but the company is focused on having a positive impact on the ground as well. With an ever-expanding global network of fulfillment and data...
View ArticleGE Reports 4Q Earnings. Here Are The Highlights
GE, the world’s largest digital-industrial company, released fourth-quarter and year-end results for 2016 today.For the year, GE’s operating results were in line with goals set out for investors. The...
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