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Czechmate: This Advanced Turboprop Engine Could Create A $40 Billion Market
When GE Aviation bought the storied but obscure Czech turboprop builder Walter Aircraft Engines in 2008, the American company hadn’t developed a new propeller engine in decades. Companies like Pratt...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
In this week’s haul of news about scientific discoveries, we found stories about a pregnant dinosaur, the oldest decoded “ancient human” DNA and how selfless driving could lead to fewer traffic jams....
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GE Is Building America’s 1st Offshore Wind Farm
New wind farms added more than a quarter of total new power generation capacity in the United States between 2010 and 2014, reaching 75,000 megawatts at the end of last year. No other country with the...
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It Takes a Village to Power Africa: Q&A with Andrew M. Herscowitz
Three years into the U.S. Power Africa initiative, a roadmap is in place to connect 60 million to electricity by 2030 — and empower people across the continent. Africa boasts some of the world’s...
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How Big Data Can Tackle Traffic
Big Data shows how “selfless” driving could ease traffic congestion. It’s easy to see why motor cars are such a popular form of transport: they’re private, comfortable and convenient. But the...
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Employing An Untapped Resource In Saudi Arabia: Women
Sara AbdulAziz al-Omran is climbing the corporate ladder in a country where many women used to stay home. She leaves her parents’ home early every morning to head to her job at the All-Women Business...
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Bloomberg Businessweek: How GE Became A 124-Year-Old Startup
The cover story in the new issue of Bloomberg Businessweek takes stock of GE’s transformation into a digital-industrial company and explains how “GE became a 124-year-old startup.” The magazine writes...
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5 Essential Things to Know About the Accelerating Future
In this era of hyperconnectivity, transformation is happening faster and impacting every industry. To thrive in this environment, you need to understand these five things. Someday, we will look back...
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This Massive Magnet Will Generate Power At America’s First Offshore Windfarm
Offshore wind farms can tap into a bounty of wind that allows them to work twice as productively. But that efficiency comes at a cost. Like any sea-based technology, wind farms are difficult to build...
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This “Digital Twin” Of A Car Battery Could Lead To New Hybrid Vehicles
While Prius and Tesla cars might be thick on the ground in some well-off neighborhoods, the truth is that alternative fuel vehicles account for just about 5 percent of the automobiles on the road in...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week, a short novel written by an AI program did well in a Japanese literary contest, scientists spotted traces of a possible new particle that could shake the foundations of physics and a team of...
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Robot Law: Preventing Serious And Subtle Threats — An Interview With A....
From the Brink: As part of a regular series featuring content from BRINK, A. Michael Froomkin discusses the legal complexities and challenges of robotics. Robots aren’t people. So whom do we blame —...
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Brain Changes Signal Alzheimer’s 20 Years Before Symptoms Appear
The world may have just gotten an early warning alarm for Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers in Sweden have uncovered changes in the brain that foretell the development of the brain disorder up to two...
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This MRI Imaging Technique Helped Clinicians Unmask Silent Liver Disease
Nobody wants to be told they are going to die. Yet that’s the prognosis Wayne Eskridge received from his doctors in 2010. The diagnosis was a stage-four case of cirrhosis of the liver. As he and his...
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Marco Annunziata: Through the Looking Glass
How to cut through the global economic madness to assess real prospects for growth. Looking at the global economy can feel like we have gone among the mad people:Some interest rates are negative —...
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Brain Changes Signal Alzheimer’s 20 Years Before Symptoms Appear
The world may have just gotten an early warning alarm for Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers in Sweden have uncovered changes in the brain that foretell the development of the brain disorder up to two...
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Digital Energy: How The Cloud Is Helping This Desert Utility Keep The Lights On
GE Healthcare engineers in Finland have recently started working on a predictive software system that could one day collect human vital signs like blood pressure, temperature and breathing rate, and...
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Ian Bremmer: 3 Risks Poised to Disrupt a Fast-Changing World by 2021
The forces of technological change and geopolitical decentralization are set to transform the world over the next five years. Here are the three biggest risks to watch. We spend a significant amount of...
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GE’s Got A Ticket To Ride: How The Cloud Will Take Trains Into A New Era
From space, America’s rail system looks like a slice of brain tissue, with brightly lit train hubs and spokes standing in for neurons. Bit by bit, it’s starting to behave like one.Take GE’s newest...
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Mark Muro: To Spur Manufacturing Innovation — Go Open Topic
By embracing “bottom-up” innovation, the U.S. government can help advanced manufacturing respond to the speed and complexity of technological change. Gaining a national edge in the advanced...
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