Charged Up: GE Shows Investors Its Energy Playbook
The acquisition of Alstom’s energy assets delivered $1.5 billion in synergies in 2016, $300 million above GE’s original five-year target for Alstom synergies, GE’s Chief Financial Officer Jeff...
View ArticleYou Are Entering New Dimensions: Do You Have GE Reports Radio On Your Dial?
Good stories, like their heroines and heroes, have many dimensions. That’s why we created a handful of new ways to experience the content you find every day on our website. Earlier this month, we...
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A Brooklyn startup built a 3D printing plant operated by a robot, the U.S. Navy says that the singularity could arrive “as soon as 2035” and mathematicians in England proved that you will never be...
View ArticleNight Watch 2.0: Meet The Digital Ghost In the Machine
Time was, outages on the power grid were the result of downed tree limbs and determined squirrels. Rodents and branches are still an issue, but power companies increasingly are worried about hackers...
View ArticleScientists Need You to Solve This Chess Problem to Help Find the Key to Human...
What separates us from supercomputers.BEC CREW, Science AlertConsciousness is the most important quality of a human being, but scientists have struggled for millennia to explain it – where does it come...
View ArticlePump Up The Volume: ‘Genome Sculpting’ Could Help Scale Biotherapeutic Medicine
The first biopharmaceutical drugs using complex organic molecules produced by genetically modified cells to deliver more efficient therapies have already started to write the next chapter of medicine....
View ArticleReady For Take Off: UPS Is Testing Residential Delivery By Drone
UPS’ latest drone test, which successfully delivered a package from the roof of a company truck, shows that the gap between vision and reality is closing. “There’s definitely a lot to learn and plenty...
View ArticleShe’s Got Grit: A Simulated Helicopter Sea Crash Is Just A Small Part Of This...
There are no glass ceilings on the North Sea, only ceaseless winds. Those winds will soon drive huge offshore turbines with enough capacity to light up 1 million homes in Germany. But there’s a hitch....
View ArticleNight Watch 2.0: Meet The Digital Ghost In the Machine
Time was, outages on the power grid were the result of downed tree limbs. Trees and branches are still an issue, but power companies increasingly are worried about hackers and computer viruses. To wit,...
View ArticleShe’s Got Grit: A Simulated Helicopter Sea Crash Is Just A Small Part Of This...
There are no glass ceilings on the North Sea, only ceaseless winds. Those winds will soon drive huge offshore turbines with enough capacity to light up 1 million homes in Germany. But there’s a hitch....
View ArticleTiny 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...
View ArticleAn ‘All of the Above’ Approach to U.S. Infrastructure
Investing in U.S. infrastructure may be one of the few bipartisan efforts that financial institutions, manufacturers, policy makers and workers can all get behind. The new Coalition to Modernize...
View ArticleLiving On The Edge But Playing It Safe: What Barefoot Water-Skiing And...
You’d think an environmental health and safety (EHS) expert would be overly cautious about the world around him, calculating every possible danger and wrapping family members in cotton wool. Not Kevin...
View ArticleHydropower Catches The Digital Wave
Digital solutions promise to improve economic and environmental outcomes, write Debora Frodl, Global Executive Director at GE Ecomagination, and Richard Taylor, CEO of the International Hydropower...
View ArticleA Magic Touch: Brazilian Doctor Uses 3D Printing To Help Blind Parents Feel...
When Ana Paula Silveira got pregnant, she and her husband, Alvaro Zermiani, dreamed about seeing the face of their child during her first ultrasound exam. But weeks later, they got to feel it...
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists in San Diego are printing body parts, their peers in England are manufacturing blood, and a team in Wisconsin came up with eye gear that could give humans super color vision. Who needs...
View ArticleTheoretical Physicists Suggest There’s A Portal Linking The Standard Model To...
Theoretical physicists have put forward a new hypothesis that aims to connect the world of visible physics to the hidden forces of our Universe: what if there’s a portal that bridges the gap between...
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 Rising Importance Of The ‘Secondary’ City
There’s a popular saying in Chinese urban geography and architecture: “If you want to understand 5,000 years of Chinese civilization look at Xi’an, 1,000 years look at Beijing, modern China look at...
View ArticleVive La Révolution Digitale: A Parisian Suburb Started Testing A Renewable...
The Jean Jaurès elementary school in the town of Rueil-Malmaison outside of Paris is full of French charm. Light streams into a room on the second floor through colored glass casting playful...
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