5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
Scientists successfully attacked cancer with rabies, built an artificial eagle eye from 3D-printed cameras the size of a grain of salt and tapped MIT students to make their scheduling AI smarter....
View ArticleA $100 Billion Idea: GE’s Jeff Immelt Talks To CNBC’s Jim Cramer About...
Jeff Immelt, GE chairman and CEO, recently sat down with CNBC host Jim Cramer to talk about GE’s transformation into the world’s largest digital industrial company. Here are the highlights from the...
View ArticleLights, Electricity, Action: When Ronald Reagan Hosted “General Electric...
In 2015, the National Geographic Channel launched a new television series called “Breakthrough,” focusing on scientific discovery. The series was developed by the channel and GE, and produced by Oscar...
View Article3 Ways To Build Innovation Into Your Business: Ignore At Your Own Risk
Do your company’s leaders actually define what “innovation” means for them? Exploring the gap between aspiration and accomplishment is the difference between businesses that innovate successfully and...
View ArticleSlam Dunk: NBA Teamed Up With GE To Shine A Light On Stress Fractures
When America’s top basketball players took to the court for the 66th NBA All-Star Game last weekend in New Orleans, some of them had reached the pinnacle of their profession after overcoming injuries,...
View ArticleA Pinky Promise: Even The Most Advanced Machines Didn’t Prepare This Doctor...
When women visit Jin-Chung Shih, it’s almost always because their doctor suspects there’s a problem with the pregnancy. Shih runs the labor ward at National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei, and a...
View ArticleThis 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...
View ArticleWhat Companies Should Ask: Do We Actually Value Diversity Or Are We Just...
Project Include started with eight women in tech who wanted to move diversity forward by having hard conversations. Co-founder Ellen Pao describes the group’s suggestions for improvement and which...
View ArticleClearing The Air: This Woman Is Helping South Africa’s New Coal Power Plant...
People often visit South Africa to bask in the country’s sunshine, learn about its history and discover its stunning natural beauty. But just east of the capital Pretoria, amid a maze of cranes and...
View ArticleCall Of Duty: This Woman’s VR Simulation Makes Factories Work Better
Virtual reality became domesticated last year — at least in America — when the VR viewer Google Cardboard arrived for the first time with the Sunday New York Times. Today, you could use it to explore...
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Researchers built an AI that learned to how to code, found chemicals in a giant lizard’s blood that killed deadly bacteria, and proposed efficient wind turbines fashioned to behave like insect wings....
View ArticleThe Fourth Industrial Revolution And Challenges For Government
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will increasingly give citizens the ability to use technology to seek greater autonomy, which will challenge the power of government and institutions in disruptive...
View ArticleFrom Light To Bright: San Diego Is Building The World’s Largest Municipal...
San Diego’s newest streetlights might not look all that special — and that’s exactly the point. Designed to blend in with the rest of the city’s outdoor lighting, they’re easy to overlook. Under the...
View ArticleMetalmorphoses: This Greek Digital Smelter Uses Software To Keep A River Of...
Home to the Valley of the Muses, Greece’s Mount Helicon has been hailed by Ovid and Hesiod as the font of inspiration and poetry. But today, the plains between Helicon’s foothills and the cool blue...
View ArticleJeff Immelt: Leading A Digital Industrial Era
GE released its 2016 Annual Report today. It includes a letter to shareowners written by GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt. In the letter, Immelt shares his thinking about GE’s performance and role in...
View ArticleSolving The Energy Equation: How Business And The Environment Can Thrive...
In about two decades, companies and governments will invest between $7 trillion and $11 trillion in renewable energy. Carlos Pascual, senior vice president at IHS, Ecomagination Advisory Board member...
View ArticleYou Are Entering Another Dimension: New Software Allows Power Plant Engineers...
A typical power plant is a very large and very complicated network of machines for making electricity that must be kept in good order. It’s not an easy task. During the design phase of a power plant...
View ArticlePut It Into Print: The Future Of Manufacturing In America (And Everywhere...
Who would’ve thought that Pittsburgh and its environs would be a paradise for tech geeks?On a recent day in January, you could step out of your hotel, catch a self-driving taxi developed locally at...
View ArticleWith 5G Technology, The Internet Of (20.8 Billion) Things Will Be Realized
The sky’s the limit with the Internet of Things, if you have the right network. Sooner than you think, 5G networks will offer data speeds 10 to 100 times faster than current 4G networks. This will...
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A huge “crown of thorns” neuron that wraps around the brain could hold a key to consciousness, artificial synapses could lead to brain-like computers, and solid-state batteries could revolutionize how...
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