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Laser Focus: Machine Learning Will Give 3D Printers Eyes
Just a few years ago, it would take GE engineers more than 800 parts to build a third of a new turboprop engine. Today they need about a dozen.That’s the power of 3D printing. GE designers were able to...
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Well Played: For Researcher Marie-Agathe Charpagne, Music And Metals Go Hand...
The annual Ile-de-France piano competition can be a nerve-racking affair. Pianists from around the world converge on the 2,000-seat Salle Malesherbes auditorium in Maisons-Laffitte, a few miles...
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Catching A Second Wind: How Supercomputers Are Helping Neighboring Wind Farms...
Stroll behind a spinning wind turbine on a blustery day and the breeze washing over you slows noticeably as the turbine blades pull energy from the moving air. While that’s no surprise, the full extent...
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Everything Is Illuminated: This Mile-High Marvel Is Keeping The Lights On In...
Not so long ago, large parts of India used to be dark in satellite pictures of Earth at night. But now they twinkle with hope. In fact, the Asian country’s rapid electrification is one of the greatest...
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Ultra Super Critical Thinking: These High-Tech Turbines Are Giving Coal A New...
The Ostroleka C power station, currently under construction in Poland, could be the last coal-fired power plant built in the European Union country. But that hardly means the technology inside it has...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Tiny robots will repair Britain’s sewer system, an algorithm helps digital cameras see around corners and a controversial gene therapy technique could change the game for infertile people. All that and...
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Achtung, Baby: This Wireless Fetal Heart Rate Monitor Delivers
Giving birth is hard enough without getting trapped in your bed by a mess of wires and cables. Just ask labor and delivery nurse Brigitta Fifield, who spends a lot of time helping her patients get...
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Winds Of Change: GE Combines Grid, Renewables Units Into A Renewable Energy...
Germany’s huge new offshore wind farm Merkur is an awesome sight in its own right. But it’s also a great illustration of why GE’s decision to combine its Renewable Energy business with its Grid...
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GE Reports Fourth-Quarter and Full-Year 2018 Results
Today GE released its fourth-quarter results for 2018, reporting revenues of $33.3 billion, GE cash flows from operating activities of $6.4 billion, adjusted GE industrial free cash flows of $4.9...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week, researchers rigged off-the-shelf technology to catapult their ideas into the next level. Engineers in California used a movie projector to 3D-print super smooth, bendable objects, a team in...
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A Great Piece Of Gear: Army To Upgrade Its Fleet of Black Hawk, Apache...
Two U.S. Army workhorse helicopters, the Black Hawk and the Apache, are getting futuristic new engines that promise to keep the legendary choppers in service for decades to come. On Friday, the...
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She Has Her Finger On Power’s Pulse: GE’s Vera Silva Talks About Building The...
Operating a massive power grid is a bit like riding a bike, says the Swiss national grid operator Swissgrid. It’s easiest if you’re on a level surface, but things get trickier going uphill or downhill...
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Honey, I Shrunk The Grid: How Digital Technology Is Straightening Out The...
Electrical substations — the clusters of circuit breakers, transformers and switchgears that stick out of the ground like giant cattle prods — aren’t much to look at. What they lack in glamour, they...
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Blown Away: GE Is Now The Top Manufacturer Of Wind Turbines In The US
Recognizing which way the wind is blowing in the energy business, American brewer Anheuser-Busch used a high-profile spot during last night’s big game to highlight the fact that its most iconic brand...
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Gear Heads: Smart Tech Helps Repair Crews Restore Power Faster
A mass of electrical cables may look like spaghetti to many people, but Nicolas Godingen has become an expert at picking each strand apart in his mind’s eye.Nearly every day, the field service manager...
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Digital Transformation: How Data Is Helping This 100-Year-Old Utility Keep...
On Dec. 27, 2018, a loud boom rousted New Yorkers from their holiday revelry. While Christmas tree lights flickered inside, a scene straight out of “Ghostbusters” was unfolding outside. A canopy of...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Brain cancer cells are being lured to their doom, artificial neural networks are functioning even more like human gray matter, and lab-grown chimpanzee “mini-brains” are enriching our understanding of...
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This News Travels Fast: Boeing’s Partnership With Aerion Could Supercharge...
Time-strapped travelers will like the sound of this. Early in February, Boeing announced it would partner with Aerion Supersonic, a Nevada company that has spent the last two decades developing a...
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Spielberg Turns 102: Computing Pioneer Talks About GE’s First Digital...
One day, when he was still barely a teenager, the film director Steven Spielberg came to visit his father, Arnold, at work. It was the late 1950s and the elder Spielberg was building computers for GE...
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The Anything Factory: NASCAR Driver Brad Keselowski Is Transforming...
As one of the country’s fastest NASCAR drivers, Brad Keselowski has always believed he could get a little more speed out of his car through cutting-edge technology and clever tweaks. As a child, he...
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