In It for the Long Haul: Big Jets Will Keep Powering Middle East’s Airline...
Few places have seen more growth in the airline industry than the Middle East. Carriers that barely registered on the radar three decades ago have grown into powerful global players.That picture won’t...
View ArticleHoney, I Shrunk the Steam Turbine: We Could Drink from the Sea With This...
Scientists at GE Global Research (GRC) are working with the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a super efficient desalination machine that fits in the palm of the hand.This innovative solution...
View ArticleLet’s Get Digital: Aviation Software Center Takes Flight in Dubai
GE Aviation’s latest technology center sits tucked away from the hustle and bustle of Dubai International Airport, inside the Dubai Airport Free Zone and just steps away from the executive jet...
View ArticleCruising at Altitude — Q&A with Richard Aboulafia of the Teal Group
After a dozen years of growth, the aviation industry has hit cruise control. But advances in Big Data, 3D printing and biofuels mean innovation will continue in the sector. The aviation industry has...
View ArticleSlush Helps Startups Get Flush: Plucky Finnish Tech Conference Draws Global...
In 2011, a group of students at Aalto University in Helsinki grew frustrated that startups in the Finnish capital were having a hard time finding each other. “There was no ecosystem for them and for...
View ArticleGE Signs $16 Billion Deal to Service Emirates’ Next-Gen Jet Engines
There is no region in the world with a higher concentration of large GE jet engines than the Middle East.The Dubai-based airline Emirates alone has 131 GE90-powered 777s in service and their engines...
View ArticleSteve Gullans: To Be Human Is To Adapt
The pace of innovation may be accelerating, but our ability to adapt to the latest technologies remains undeterred. Technology is not an obstacle to humanity. Humans evolve — behaviorally, physically,...
View ArticleIt’s Personal: How a Premature Birth Spurred Jeffrey Ashe to Map the Brain
Jeffrey Ashe is building tiny brain implants, which could one day improve the lives of people suffering from Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. This groundbreaking work was inspired by one of the worst...
View ArticleStartups Get Flush With Slush: Plucky Finnish Tech Conference Draws Global...
In 2011, a group of students at Aalto University in Helsinki grew frustrated that startups in the Finnish capital were having a hard time finding each other. “There was no ecosystem for them and for...
View ArticleAre Humans Becoming More God-Like? Interview with Yuval Noah Harari of Hebrew...
Technology will enable people to “upgrade” to god-like cyborgs in a century or two. That could be a good thing, as long as the technology is serving us — not the other way around. Is technology...
View ArticleCzech This Out: Like the Wright Flyer, GE’s Turboprop Business Was Born in a...
GE unveiled a new advanced turboprop engine yesterday that produces 10 percent more power than its peers and burns 20 percent less fuel. Its design can extend time between overhauls by as much as 30...
View Article“The Biggest Win:” New Engine Set to Lift GE’s Turboprop Business to New Heights
Textron Aviation, the world’s largest maker of business propeller planes like Beechcraft Bonanza, Baron and King Air, said today it would use a brand new advanced turboprop engine developed by GE to...
View ArticleGE Completes the Separation of Synchrony Financial
Today GE (NYSE:GE) completed the separation of Synchrony Financial (NYSE: SYF), the largest provider of private label credit cards in the United States[1]. Synchrony Financial has been a part of GE...
View ArticleNicole Y. Lamb-Hale: How to Protect Your 3D-Printed Assets
The gains from the global 3D printing revolution come with tremendous risk of IP theft — if not carefully managed. The 3D printing industry is expanding at a rapid pace. Global revenue from additive...
View ArticleZowie! Wattpad And GE Give Old Science Comics a New Life
Comic books were as popular with kids and teens in the 1950s as Instagram, Snapchat and social media are today. Although many parents couldn’t stand them, the team inside GE’s communications department...
View ArticleHeady Times: This Scientist Took the First Brain Selfie and Helped...
Early one October morning 30 years ago, GE scientist John Schenck was lying on a makeshift platform inside a GE lab in upstate New York. The itself lab was put together with special non-magnetic nails...
View ArticleWhy Are New Yorkers Hugging Street Lamps?
Hello, lamppost, whatcha knowin’? GE and its new energy startup Current set out to answer Paul Simon’s bubbly enquiry recently by installing an intelligent street lamp beside Manhattan’s iconic...
View ArticleDebora Frodl: Solving Global Resource Challenges
Beyond smart policies, innovation and private-sector collaboration will help solve the world’s resource challenges. The world’s resource challenges are very much top of my mind as we anticipate the...
View ArticleStopping Malaria: Affordable New Test Seeks To Reveal Hidden Reservoirs Of...
In 1980, the world collectively shed not a single tear upon hearing that the scourge of smallpox would likely never take another life. A gargantuan global effort had eradicated the disease in the open...
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