The Digital Energy Mix: Securing & Sustaining the Future
The demand for energy will continue to grow at an accelerated pace. Digitizing the energy ecosystem from end to end will be essential in helping meet this demand, enabling unprecedented opportunity...
View ArticleDeep Learning: New Subsea Service Model Helps Oil Drillers Limit Costs
When Marc Edwards joined Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc. as chief executive in 2014, he already knew how dependent offshore drilling rigs were on blowout preventers — valve assemblies designed to...
View ArticleMarco Annunziata: Oil Prices Got You Down?
Why I’m bullish on energy in 2016. The sharp decline in oil prices has placed them squarely at the center of the global economic debate. Many see low oil prices as evidence that the world economy has...
View ArticleReady For Prime Time: Intel Joins GE As It Opens Predix, Its Digital Platform...
Few people can fathom the sheer size of the World Wide Web, the most visible part of the Internet where we shop, meet friends, read news and watch movies. But the Web will soon be a minnow when...
View ArticleLeila Aridi Afas: Financing a Low-Carbon Future — Growing the Bond Market
Now that we have a historic climate deal in place, we have to make sure we have the funding to translate words into action. The world’s first universal climate deal, signed in December at the UN...
View ArticleVideo: Predix Now Open For All Industrial Internet Developers
GE spent $1 billion over the last few years to develop Predix, the cloud-based platform that has allowed GE to securely collect data from jet engines, gas turbines and MRI scanners, analyze it and then...
View ArticleJérôme Pécresse and Debora Frodl: GE and the Renewable Energy Era
How GE will super-charge clean energy innovation in the decade ahead. The renewable energy era has begun. Today, when a new power plant is built somewhere in the world, it is just as likely to be...
View ArticleFlying Light: Getting Fast Power To Faraway Places
Christmas comes in the summer in sub-Saharan Africa, and for months leading up to the 2014 holiday season, homes and businesses in Cabinda, Angola, were often hot and dark. The old power grid that had...
View ArticleThe Power Of Predix: An Inside Look At How Pitney Bowes Is Using The...
GE opened Predix, its cloud-based operating system for the Industrial Internet, to all users at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday. As of now, companies of all stripes can start using it to...
View ArticleGanesh Bell: How the Digital Revolution Can Power Future Growth
To meet the world’s growing demand for energy, the power sector needs to transform into a digital industry. This week I had the privilege of participating in CERAWeek in Houston, where thousands of...
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
In this week’s haul, one of the world’s most advanced robots gets knocked down with a pipe and gets up again, scientists collect clues on defusing a superbug’s immunity barrier with a light source 10...
View ArticleThe Boxing Cats In The Doghouse: The Untold Story Of Thomas Edison and the...
Fresh from inventing the recording and playback machine (1877) and the first practical lightbulb (1879), Thomas Edison focused on moving pictures. In 1889, he filed a patent for the Kinetograph, an...
View ArticleHere’s How Digital Electricity Will Change The Power Industry All The Way To...
When the large Pakistani textile maker Sapphire Group wanted to secure a reliable supply of electricity for its mills recently, it didn’t just build a new power plant. The company used a technology...
View ArticleCharles-Edouard Bouée: Does Your Company Have a Plan D?
There is no opting out of digital transformation. Successful companies carve out new strategic options for themselves — others fail. The future is not what it used to be. Digitization has reached us...
View ArticleCloudy With A Chance Of Electrons: This Scientist Can Forecast Renewable...
A group of physicists that included a Nobel laureate and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s brother spent the 1940s working in GE labs to figure out how to control the weather. After a promising start – they created...
View Article“We Have Grit,” Jeff Immelt Tells Shareowners In His Annual Letter
Speaking last fall from Studio 8H inside New York’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza — best known as the set of “Saturday Night Live” — GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt told a crowd of investors and analysts how he...
View ArticleJason Rao and David Silbey: We Need a Whole of Society Approach to Global...
From the Brink: As part of a regular series featuring content from BRINK, Jason Rao of the American Society for Microbiology and David Silbey of Cornell University discuss the importance of...
View ArticleWhat’s Inside A Jet Engine? These Scientists Are On A...
Dr. Waseem Faidi’s research playground looks an awful lot like a high-tech hospital room. There’s the large white doughnut of a computed tomography scanner and a medical bed surrounded by digital dials...
View ArticleThese 6 Apps Will Help Doctors And Hospitals Work Better
The combination of massive computing power, digitized information and connectivity has taken the world into a future few people imagined even just a decade ago. Still, talk to experts and they’ll tell...
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week’s discoveries include a 3D-printed version of “frozen smoke” that could lead to invisibility cloaks, a mummy with a colon cancer gene mutation suggesting that colorectal cancer may not be...
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