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Understanding Animals Can Help Us Make The Most Of Artificial Intelligence
Former animal trainer Heather Roff (now an artificial intelligence scholar) explains how we might usefully think about the limitations of artificial intelligence systems. Every day countless headlines...
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Waste Not: This App Just Solved A Manufacturing Riddle Larger Than All The...
Dirk Uhde isn’t the kind of guy who talks a lot about software. So when a team of data scientists and software developers from GE Digital’s European Foundry met him amid the sparks, grime and welding...
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Game On: Augmented Reality Is Helping Factory Workers Become More Productive
Jimmie Beacham is no gamer, but that didn’t stop him from hanging an Xbox console from a ceiling at work. As chief engineer for advanced manufacturing at GE Healthcare, Beacham, 43, is in charge of a...
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Just Press Print: GE Is Building A 3D-Printing Vending Machine For The Jetsons
When biomedical researchers are looking for a new drug, they study hundreds of chemicals at a time to learn how slightly different combinations of molecules will attack a particular disease. It’s...
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This Is What We Call Ecomagination: GE Is Building A CO2-Powered Turbine That...
Ever since Thomas Edison used a steam generator in his Pearl Street Station to supply parts of lower Manhattan with electricity in 1892, people have been trying to improve the design. While Edison eked...
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I 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...
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‘Ghosts’ In The Cockpit—Pilotless Flight Takes Off
Instead of summoning a car service with an app, could you hail an autonomous plane? Commercial flights already utilize autopilot technology in full. And Centaur, a 4,100-pound pilotless general...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists created an artificial organ that pumps out customized cancer-fighting cells on demand, found a way to make a fluid with negative mass, and harvested water out of dry air. Luke Skywalker...
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NASA: Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Has All the Basic Ingredients for Life
Well, what are we waiting for? NASA scientists have found more evidence that Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus could support life: the presence of hydrogen molecules in huge geysers of water shooting up...
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The Power Couple: This Battery And Jet Engine Hybrid Will Help California...
On March 23, at exactly 11:19 in the morning, the combined output of California’s copious solar panels and wind farms briefly supplied 49.2 percent of the state’s power demand for the first time. The...
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Have A Heart: New Software Could 3D Print Organ Replicas On Demand
Erica Endicott was pregnant with her son, Kaden, when cardiologists at Phoenix Children’s Heart Center discovered that the left side of the boy’s heart was not growing properly. Kaden, who is healthy...
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The Hardiman Strikes Back: The Age Of Robotic Snakes And Dexterous...
Fifty years ago, GE engineer and robotics pioneer Ralph Mosher presented a groundbreaking paper at the Automotive Engineering Congress in Detroit. “Man and machine can be combined into an intimate,...
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Study: Women Hold The Key To Closing The Skills Gap
Women comprise 47 percent of the labor force but only 29 percent of the manufacturing workforce last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. What are some of the ways to boost the number of...
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5 Ways To Raise Funds For Infrastructure Projects
There is a huge need for new and upgraded infrastructure around the world, particularly in emerging markets. Policy makers like to talk about raising trillions of dollars to fund infrastructure, but...
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The Power Couple: This Battery And Jet Engine Hybrid Will Help California...
On March 23, at exactly 11:19 in the morning, the combined output of California’s copious solar panels and wind farms briefly supplied 49.2 percent of the state’s power demand for the first time. The...
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Dam Powerful: These Engineers Are Connecting Hydropower To The Internet
There are many large waterways in North America. Then there’s the Saint Lawrence River, whose lumbering current links the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean. Montreal, Quebec’s business capital with 1.7...
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Catching More Wind: GE Acquires World’s Largest Turbine Blade Maker
In December, five massive wind turbines began harnessing breezes whipping off the coast of Rhode Island. Each as tall as the Statue of Liberty, the turbines use 600-foot-long blades made by the Danish...
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Earth Day: 7 Facts You Didn’t Know About LEDs
With the availability of affordable, efficient LEDs, today lighting plays a significant role in the environmental movement. But lighting hasn’t always been so intertwined.When Earth Day was invented in...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Engineers in Germany built the world’s first electric plane that can take off and land vertically, a team in California bred genetically engineered mutant wasps with red eyes, and a researcher in...
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