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The Wood Chips Are Down: GE Is Building A Massive Biomass Energy Plant In...
Wood, the world’s oldest source of fuel, is making a big comeback in the medieval Belgian city of Ghent. Belgian Eco Energy (BEE) has selected GE to build what will be the largest and most efficient...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned that scientists designed a new “minimally viable” synthetic species in a lab, and commandeered a living beetle with electrodes and turned it into a cyborg. Elsewhere, amateur...
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GE Asks To End U.S. Regulatory Oversight As GE Capital Transformation Races On
Last spring, GE said it would speed up its transformation into a “digital-industrial” company by selling most of GE Capital’s assets and keep the remainder tightly tied to its industrial core. It kept...
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How Magnetic Resonance Is Helping Doctors Diagnose Autism
Tens of millions of people live with autism and thousands of doctors and scientists study it. But the condition remains shrouded in mystery. “Autism proves to be a sprawling, foggy and inconsistent...
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Jim Lawton: 3 Challenges for Manufacturing’s Innovation Age
At the intersection of mind and machine, manufacturing is poised for transformation. Here are three challenges industry faces in order to capitalize on advances in robotics and the Industrial Internet....
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How GE’s Move To Boston Is Really A Homecoming
GE said in January that it will relocate its headquarters from Connecticut to Boston. The company had a significant presence in the city even before the move — GE businesses ranging from Aviation and...
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How Advanced Manufacturing Is Transforming Jobs
Advanced Manufacturing is creating disruption — as well as opportunities — for workers. This infographic explores the implications for the jobs of the future. The 4th Industrial Revolution is ushering...
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GE Gives $50 Million To Boston For Schools, Clinics And Job Training
GE will give $50 million in philanthropic funding for schools, job training and healthcare to Boston, its new home.There are some 55 colleges and universities – including Harvard and the Massachusetts...
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All The 3D Print That’s Fit to Pitt: New Additive Technology Center Opens...
GE’s new Center for Additive Technology Advancement (CATA) looks like a futuristic set for a Stanley Kubrick movie. Everything seems to be white: the walls, the gleaming floors, even the noise from...
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The Story Of The 1st US Jet Engine: The Hush-Hush Boys Wanted To Win The War...
The PlotThe year was 1941. World War II was raging in Europe and Nazi bombers over London were as common as rain. It was also when a group of GE engineers in Lynn, Massachusetts, received a secret...
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Let There Be Light: The Origin Story Of Night Baseball
When the 2016 Major League Baseball season opened last Sunday with a night game between the New York Mets and the Kansas City Royals, few fans paid attention to the lights. But that wasn’t always the...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week, we learned about glasslike steel that can withstand 125,000 atmospheres, a black hole the size of 17 billion suns hiding in an empty corner of the universe and a CT scan that revealed...
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Video: The Last Of The Hush-Hush Boys Recalls How GE Built The First American...
The year was 1941. World War II was raging in Europe and Nazi bombers over London were as common as rain. It was also when a group of GE engineers in Lynn, Massachusetts, received a secret present from...
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A Successful Startup Approach Is About Answering the Right Questions —...
It’s not enough to simply “get” the startup mentality. Executives who want to use lean startup principles to compete in today’s fast-paced economy must do the hard work needed to transform their...
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The Story Of The 1st US Jet Engine: The Hush-Hush Boys Wanted To Win The War...
The PlotThe year was 1941. World War II was raging in Europe and Nazi bombers over London were as common as rain. It was also when a group of GE engineers in Lynn, Massachusetts, received a secret...
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Rethink Robotics is Freeing Robots From Their Cages
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science-fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the humanlike machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a...
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Laser Vision: How GE Engineer Helped Boston Brain Surgeon Zap Cancer With A...
The late Harvard radiologist Ferenc Jolesz spent much of his career looking for creative ways to kill brain cancer at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. In the early 1990s, he found a promising new...
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New Digital Company Attacks Hard-To-Kill Cancer With Software
No one illustrates the promise of cell therapy better than a little girl named Emily Whitehead. She was just 5 years old when she got sick with a common type of childhood cancer called acute...
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How The Global Fund for Ecommerce Is Helping Entrepreneurs in Developing...
By bringing together public- and private-sector support for digital trade, the Global Fund for Ecommerce could help developing country entrepreneurs go global. Ecommerce has emerged as a powerful...
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