Satyen Sangani: We Are in the Dark Age of Data. It’s Time to Evolve
Data is only as good as the insights we can gain from it. We need to boost data literacy.For those of us who champion the power of data, the past five years have been an incredible ride thanks to the...
View ArticleGo with Current: GE’s New Energy Business Changes the Power Game
GE announced today the creation of Current, a startup that combines energy hardware with a digital backbone to make power simpler and more efficient for customers.The company, which is backed by GE’s...
View ArticleHigh-Altitude Science Reveals Secrets of Glowing Plasma
There’s a lot of science happening in the bowels of the International Space Station 249 miles overhead. Astronauts are chowing down on experimental salads grown from LEDs and hydroponics. Silkworms are...
View ArticleThe Heat Is On: How New Horizons Got Its Power
Feature by feature, they revealed themselves: the plains of Sputnik, the Norgay Montes and the vast and forbidding Cthulu Regio.When the New Horizons spacecraft finally buzzed Pluto at roughly 30,000...
View ArticleLadies and Gentlemen, Upload Your Engines: GE’s First Chief Digital Officer...
Silicon Valley veteran Ganesh Bell believes in the power of software so much that he decided to join one of the world’s largest industrial companies. “After two decades in the software business and...
View ArticleDavid Schwartz: Big Data Demands Big Security
Devising strategies to protect Big Data is as important as analyzing the information. Big data is becoming an increasingly important part of the business plan for companies in many different...
View ArticleGE Will Sell its Commercial Lending and Leasing Units to Wells Fargo in the...
GE’s journey to exit the banking sector and transform itself into the world’s largest digital industrial company crossed a major milestone today when the company announced it signed an agreement to...
View ArticleHybridized, Ultra-Efficient Fuel Cells Poised to Power the Future
The emerging Age of Gas, the rise of distributed power and technological innovation will accelerate the adoption of fuel cells into the global energy landscape over the next decade. The future of power...
View ArticlePower in the Sewer: One Person’s Wastewater is Another’s Electricity
It takes water to create energy and energy to treat water. But wastewater treatment plants are also often one of the biggest users of electric power, sending electricity down the drain.Engineers at GE,...
View ArticleHow Big Data and the Industrial Internet Can Help Southwest Save $100 Million...
Map out one million flight plans each year for Southwest Airlines. Everything from planeloads of chilly Chicagoans heading for vacations in Cancun to budget-minded businesspeople dashing from Los...
View ArticleListen to This! These “Intelligent” Street Lamps Can Hear Gun Shots, Call for...
The cities of San Diego and Jacksonville are testing an “intelligent lighting” system using sensor-enabled lamps connected to the Industrial Internet with the ability to monitor traffic, get severe...
View ArticleJoseph Savirimuthu: Shifting Winds for Transatlantic Data Flows
A ruling in Europe has sent shockwaves across the Atlantic in the balance between data privacy and information sharing. Here are three key takeaways. A crucial data protection agreement between the...
View ArticleThe Odd Couple: Silicon and Carbon Don’t Love Each Other. But When They Iron...
Silicon and carbon are reluctant partners. Although the two elements are among the most abundant on Earth, they almost never bond in nature and it takes a lot of heat and pressure in the lab to coax...
View ArticleSink and Swim: Stinger The Swimming Robot Keeps Nuclear Reactors Healthy
Nothing says summertime in Georgia like a dip in the old swimming hole. But near the town of Baxley, there’s one pool that’s not open to the public: the crystal-clear blue waters of the containment...
View ArticleKurt’s Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut was GE’s PR Man Before Becoming a Bestselling...
Before Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote the bestsellers Slaughterhouse Five and Cat’s Cradle, he lived near Schenectady, New York, and worked as a GE publicist. According to Vonnegut’s biographer Charles J....
View ArticleGE’s Third-Quarter Results Highlight Pace of Change, Focus on Industrial Core
GE’s third-quarter results, released today, put in focus the rapid change taking place at the company as it races to sell most of its financial businesses and embrace its industrial core and software....
View ArticleThe Road to ecoROTR: How Building a Better Wind Turbine Began With an Online...
Scientists at GE Global Research spent the last four years building a more efficient wind turbine. It rises 450-feet above the Mojave desert in California – almost half the height of the Eiffel Tower —...
View ArticleThe First American Jet Engine Was Born Inside a Power Plant: A GE Store Story
For most people, Thomas Edison is the man who came up with the first practical light bulb. But Edison was also an inveterate entrepreneur who parlayed his patents into new industries and enduring...
View ArticleGE Announces Synchrony Financial Exchange Offer
GE (NYSE: GE) announced today its offer to exchange GE company stock for shares in Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF), the largest provider of private label credit cards in the United States.*Shareholders...
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