GE Reports First Quarter Earnings: A Strong Start In A Challenging Environment
GE released its first-quarter results for 2017, kicking off the year with strong performance. The company said it’s on the right path to achieve its 2017 goals and deliver more value to its customers,...
View ArticleScientists Have Observed Epigenetic Memories Being Passed Down For 14...
The past lives on. The most important set of genetic instructions we all get comes from our DNA, passed down through generations. But the environment we live in can make genetic changes,...
View ArticleCulture Reversal: How GE Eliminates ‘Game of Thrones’ Scenarios At The Office
The company’s vice chairman, John G. Rice, describes GE’s efforts to bust silos, boost collaboration, and build an internal marketplace of ideas and solutions. The GE I work for now is not the same...
View ArticleThe Heirs Of Gutenberg: GE Is Adding The Next Chapter Of Its 3D-Printing Push...
When the German inventor Johannes Gutenberg developed the printing press during the Renaissance, he set words, and ideas, free. Six hundred years later, his compatriot Frank Herzog is taking printing...
View ArticleA New $3 Billion Deal Will Help Algeria Take Its Power To The Next Level
Four years ago, the Algerian energy company Sonelgaz bought 34 gas and steam turbines from GE to help bring power to millions of people across its desert and urban landscapes. The turbines can generate...
View ArticleReady For Takeoff: This Apprentice Program Is Launching Jobs In A Jet Engine...
Chip Singleton has lived his whole life in Canton, North Carolina, a small town tucked in a narrow valley in the state’s mountainous western corner. He met his wife, Patty, at the Pisgah High School —...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing CRISPR: It’s Time For The Public To Chime In About Genome Editing
Manipulating our genetic code with CRISPR may be a controversial topic, but it offers scientists the chance to work with the public to shape the ethical future of this technology, writes Megan...
View ArticleAnnual Meeting: GE Shows Shareowners Digital Industrial Future
GE held its annual meeting for shareowners Wednesday on the factory floor at GE Aviation’s new 170,000-square foot plant Asheville, North Carolina. “Each year we hold our annual meeting in a city that...
View ArticleGreen Day: GE Grabs Solar Panels And Shovels For Global Earth Day Celebration
Employees making steam turbines at GE Power in Schenectady, New York, recently realized they had an untapped energy resource outside their doorstep: a huge parking lot (see top image). So, in honor of...
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 ArticleCities Of 2050: Data And Tech Will Fuel The Megacities Of The Future
When it comes to designing infrastructure, one thing is for sure: Big Data collected through the IoT will play a key role in growing the megacities of 2050, including using data to watch people’s...
View ArticleWorking The Crowd: This Fuse Will Set The Collective Brain On Fire
Fans of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” series are well versed in the trials and tribulations facing coders struggling to write better compression software. That show is fictional, but the problem is very real....
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Physicians in Philadelphia have developed an artificial womb, researchers in England built an AI that can accurately predict the risk of heart disease, and MIT engineers designed a robotic 3D printer...
View ArticleHave 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...
View ArticleHow Close Are We Really To Connecting Human Minds To Artificial Intelligence?
Brain-computer interfacing is a hot topic in the tech world, with Elon Musk’s announcement of his new Neuralink startup. Here, researchers separate what’s science from what’s currently still fiction....
View ArticleThe Future Of Home Robotics: Capable, Personable And Cute?
If working in robotics for the last 15 years has taught Mayfield Robotics CTO Kaijen Hsiao anything, it’s that as the market for home robots evolves, so will consumer expectations. Those expectations...
View ArticlePlane Power: How Software And Jet Engine Tech Is Helping Angola Leapfrog Into...
Available capital isn’t the only obstacle to economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Another major hurdle is the lack of reliable electricity. In fact, large parts of the region have no power at all....
View ArticleIn The Digital Age, Employees Can Be Your Best Recruiters Or Worst Critics
Despite a problematic skills gap, particularly in the technology and manufacturing sectors, too many companies ignore their strongest potential supporters and critics to attract new talent: their...
View ArticleThe Startup Power Plant: These Engineers Are Building Turbines The Silicon...
Many management experts are obsessed with “startup culture,” the particular mix of vision, energy and nimbleness that allows companies to take an idea, rapidly prototype it and get it to market in...
View ArticleSoftware, Please: Doctors Are Looking To AI To Speed Up Diagnosis
The University of California, San Francisco and GE Healthcare are studying how artificial intelligence and machine learning can help doctors and caregivers make faster and smarter clinical decisions....
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