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Judgment Call: Why GE Is Experimenting With ‘Humble AI’
Here’s a nightmare story for you: Machines, endowed with artificial intelligence, get smarter than their creators, take charge and attempt to save humans from themselves. Oops. Smarts, it turns out,...
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It’s Only Natural: New Ohio Power Plant To Use GE’s Record-Setting Natural...
The history of Guernsey County, Ohio, is entwined with glass. Glassware in such vibrant and poetic colors as carmen, royal blue, crown Tuscan and heatherbloom, produced by the Cambridge Glass Company,...
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The Fabulous 5: How Do These Women Spell ‘Cool Career’? S-T-E-M
This month, children around the world are meeting new classmates, organizing their backpacks and class schedules, and sharing pictures from their summer vacations. Many are also fielding their parents’...
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Move It! How GE Gets Tech From Point A to Point B
What do human organs and critical wind farm parts have in common? Neither is of much use if they can’t get to where they’re needed.Moving a human kidney, a wind turbine blade or a 400-pound nacelle...
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Sweat Patch Takes A Licking, Keeps On Sticking
Serious physical training is all about making the body tougher and figuring out the weak points. When GE Research engineers sent the first generation of their adhesive sweat patch to a U.S. Air Force...
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Fresh Wind: Turkish Turbine Blade Factory Invigorates Historic Town
Growing up in Bergama, a town of 200,000 people in the western hills of Turkey, history is all around you. Some 2,400 years ago, when the place was known as Pergamum, Alexander the Great swept the city...
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Talking About The Next Generation: Taking The Latest Tech To The Classroom
Educator Jessica Hughes knew the girls in her classes were smart, but they were underperforming when it came to science and math. Her solution? A 3D-printing club that would inspire them to develop...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Doctors in London used stem cells to make an Englishman see again, new AI can sniff out heart disease from just one heartbeat, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers stumbled on the...
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Breathing Easier: This AI Is Helping Doctors Spot Life-Threatening Lung...
A collapsed lung can feel a little like being trapped underwater. Pneumothorax (as doctors call it) is caused by tears in the lung that leak air into the space between the lung and the chest wall...
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Power Up: GE To Add 1.5 Gigawatts To Iraq’s Grid
A decade ago, some parts of Iraq averaged just a few hours of electricity per day. While electricity conditions have dramatically improved for most Iraqis, when the searing summer heat arrives and the...
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Team Spirit: What It Takes To Build A Factory That Makes The World’s Longest...
Following the D-Day invasion, few prizes were as valuable to the advancing Allies as Cherbourg, a large French deep-water port located just northwest of the Utah and Omaha landing beaches in Normandy....
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The Coast With The Most: Two New U.S. Offshore Wind Farms Will Use The...
Renewable energy company Ørsted knows a few things about the benefits of being first. In 1991, the company built the world’s first offshore wind farm a mile from the Danish coast, near the island of...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Artificial intelligence could help seismologists predict earthquakes, a new type of drug could flush aging cells from the body, and researchers introduced a robot that’s made of … smaller robots....
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The Wright Stuff: The Day Orville Wright Visited GE Aviation’s Future...
This summer, employees at GE Aviation gathered for a festive celebration outside the GE unit’s global headquarters in Evendale, Ohio, just north of Cincinnati. The star of the party was a massive jet...
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The Rise Of The Hybrids: New GE Unit Blends Batteries And Renewables To Boost...
Renewable energy has been growing at breakneck speed. By 2023, according to the International Energy Agency, the world will add more than 1 terawatt (1,000 gigawatts) of renewable energy generation — a...
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MIND The Gap: DARPA Funds New Research To Make Information More Secure
Imagine a doctor in a hospital who is about to operate on a patient with a brain aneurism. Before surgery, the doctor needs to gather lots of pieces of information: A scan of the patient’s brain,...
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Mix It Up: Renewable Power Is Rising And This Tech Will Help It Shine
Many countries have set ambitious goals for getting their electricity from renewable sources. Germany, for example, wants to generate 65% of its energy from renewables by 2030. Sweden wants to achieve...
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Hacking Hydro: Idea Contest Seeks To Sharpen Waterpower’s Renewable Energy Edge
Commercial electricity was a shiny new thing in 1897, when operators flipped the switch on the Mechanicville Hydroelectric Station on the Hudson River in upstate New York. Straddling one of the river’s...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A new artificial skin from Switzerland is soft, sensitive and stretchy, an Australian lab is developing a patch that could grow replacement heart tissue, and researchers in the U.K. are using a rare...
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Atlantis Is Calling: GE Turbines To Power The World’s Largest Offshore Wind...
Ever since Plato wrote about the lost island of Atlantis, scientists and enthusiasts of every ilk have been searching for it. One location that’s gathered a lot of attention is Dogger Bank, a vast...
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