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AI-trained robots are learning to read their surroundings based on just a few visual cues, and they’re becoming better drivers too; elsewhere, smart machines on the factory floor are working in...
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Pump It Up: Energy Department-Funded Project To Explore How Hydro Storage Can...
The U.S. Department of Energy announced recently that it’s awarding a $1.25 million grant to a project team from GE Research and GE Energy Consulting to dig deeper into the possibilities of hydro...
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Dam Powerful: Software And Data Pushed This Portuguese Hydro Plant To The...
Two hours east of Lisbon, the Alqueva Dam impounds the Guadiana, a mighty river running down the southern stretch of the Portugal-Spain border. This rugged landscape, which looks from above like a...
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Lord Of The Wings: Air New Zealand Orders A New Dreamliner Fleet, Powered By...
Adventure-seeking bungee jumpers, “Lord of the Rings” fans and hunters of colossal squid have another reason to check out the remote Pacific Island nation of New Zealand: Air New Zealand is expanding...
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Scientists devised a microscopic “submarine” that could ply the deepest interiors of the human body, delivering drugs to the exact places they’re needed, while engineers built a prototype of an “air...
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Small Miracles: Pocket-Size Ultrasound Boosts Infant And Maternal Health In...
American nurse Marie Elizabeth Bell recently spent nine months in Papua New Guinea, where she worked at the Kunai Health Centre in the southwestern Pacific country’s remote Gulf Province. One patient...
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Hotter Air: Ceramics Are The Secret To Lighter, Faster Jet Engines
After examining the possibility of ceramics being used in flight in 2001, scientists from the Institute for Defense Analyses starkly concluded, “There may be more pigs flying than ceramics in the...
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What The Software Ordered: GE And Roche Launch New Digital Solution That Can...
Last year, GE Healthcare and Roche announced that they would collaborate to create clinical decision support solutions on shared digital platforms for so-called “precision health” in oncology and...
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Dam Powerful: Software And Data Pushed Are Pushing Hydro Plant To The Next Level
Hydropower plants, like all industrial assets and processes, generates an enormous amount of data, says GE Renewable Energy Chief Technology Officer Danielle Merfeld, who spoke earlier this month in...
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Team Effort: D-Day Victory Came As Many Focused on One Goal
The defeat of the Nazi terror that had taken hold of Europe started with women like Marie Kappa, a government inspector based at GE Works in Erie, Ohio, who inspected GE-produced military equipment....
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Marriage Made In Heaven: How A Ritz-Carlton Meeting Changed The History of...
Drinks in a cozy, elegant cocktail lounge have preceded plenty of marriage proposals. But perhaps only once has such a session led to the creation of the most prolific jet propulsion company in...
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They Might As Well Jump: Dreamliner Contract Has GE’s Team Leaping — Off...
It started as a lark. GE Aviation’s David Kelly and his colleague Rachel Wagner were working up a bid to supply engines for a fleet of new Boeing Dreamliners three years ago. Since the client, Air New...
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Astrophysicists solved a long-standing mystery about black holes, while researchers discovered that cells don’t even need to leave the body for gene editing to work and found a new protein segment that...
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A Special Connection: How One Old English Town Is Becoming The Epicenter Of...
Sitting in the shadow of a 10th-century Saxon castle and surrounded by emerald fields flecked with herds of grazing sheep and cattle, the English Midlands town of Stafford feels far removed from the...
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Starting Early: Massive Newborn Study Aims To Solve Long-Term Heart Disease...
In addition to all the necessary well-baby visits and obstetrician follow-ups that come on top of the adjustment of having a new baby, Kathrine Garbers found time for yet another visit to Herlev...
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The Rain In Spain Gets A Brain: How Digitalization Is Boosting Iberia’s Dams
The rain in Spain does not stay mainly in the plains, as sung by Eliza Doolittle in the classic musical “My Fair Lady.” Last year it rained so much in Spain that the nation’s reservoirs allowed Spain...
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Eternal Sunshine Of The Digital Mind: Companies Are Racing To Digitize...
It can be hard to get a good night of sleep in Helsinki in mid-June, where fiery sunsets last nearly till midnight and the bright sun climbs back up into the sky just a few short early morning hours...
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A Family Affair: Dave Kircher Launched His 30-Year GE Career With A Little...
Growing up, Dave Kircher knew that his dad, Bill, worked on jet engines at GE, but the details were always mysterious. Even when they went to the Dayton Air Museum together and Bill explained the...
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A vaccine could prevent Alzheimer’s-related cognitive decline, a laser can track down and kill cancer cells without breaking the skin and new bots on the factory floor know how to give humans some...
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Flying High: Keeping Up With Heavy Demand, Jet Engine Maker CFM International...
The Paris Air Show kicked off this weekend with a briefing for journalists — or at least that’s how the jet engine maker CFM International got things going. To CFM, this year’s show is special. Eleven...
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