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Land Of Silk And Lasers: Bespoke 3D Printing Factory Thrives in Italy’s...
For decades, fabric factories on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como kept the fashion houses of Milan resplendent in silk. Today, a new kind of manufacturing in the fashion heartland is spinning up parts...
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Networked LEDs Are Shaping New Digital Nervous System For Cities
Networked LED light fixtures with built-in sensors can create a digital nervous system for cities. If deployed on streets, in parking garages and in buildings, this ubiquitous infrastructure will...
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When This 3,000-Year-Old Mummy Finally Got Her Checkup, Doctors Discovered A...
In 1909, a New York businessman named Samuel Brown traveled to Egypt to purchase a pair of ancient mummies for the Albany Institute of History and Art, where he served as a board member.Brown and...
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How The Swiss Turned An Alpine Peak Into A Battery The Size Of A Nuclear Plant
Hidden away above the tiny Swiss Alpine town of Linthal, deep inside a snowcapped granite massif, sits Europe’s newest engineering marvel. It is a hydropower plant like no other, able to generate as...
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Up In The Air: The World’s Hardest-Working Jet Engine Has Logged 91,000 Years...
How long is 91,000 years? Go back that far in the history of the earth and the Sahara was a wet and fertile plateau. It’s also the cumulative amount of time that the world’s most hardest-working jet...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about freshwater snails that could help AI engineers design brains for robots, scientists who are seeking to sequence synthetic human DNA and software that turns computer cameras...
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Collaboration, Not Isolation, Is The Key to Managing Global Risks
From cyber attacks to the easy spread of pandemics, the world seems to be aflame with the unintended consequences of globalization. Instead of looking to simple yet destructive solutions like...
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Done Deal: GE Sells Its Appliances Business To Haier For $5.6 Billion
GE parted ways with its century-old Appliances business today, selling the unit to Haier for $5.6 billion. The final price is $200 million higher than originally announced to account for working...
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Could This Be The Most Extreme Power Plant In The World?
Hidden away above the tiny Swiss Alpine town of Linthal, deep inside a snowcapped granite massif, sits Europe’s newest engineering marvel. It is a hydropower plant like no other, able to generate as...
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Times They Are a-Changin’: The Renewable Energy Transition Is Happening, But...
Countries, provinces, cities and companies are increasing their renewable energy production targets at a rate that makes clear the transition away from fossil fuels is happening and unstoppable. But...
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Lessons in Collaboration: Ecomagination Is Partnering With The World’s...
Scaling Disruptive InnovationTransformative change takes time. When Thomas Edison founded GE 124 years ago, he couldn’t have fathomed the technological, economic or environmental realities of today. In...
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Why Trade Deals Work For U.S. Workers
A review of the impact of U.S. trade deals since NAFTA shows they have improved U.S. trade balances and boosted exports, getting U.S.-made goods on the shelves of its trading partners. Today’s...
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Sweat Equity: These Wireless Skin Sensors Could Check Your Vital Signs And...
Anil Duggal has always had a knack for invention — the GE Global Research chief scientist has 98 U.S. patents to his name. Now, with the support of his colleagues Jeff Ashe and Azar Alizadeh, Duggal is...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
We’ve had the data cloud for some time — now comes data slime. We learned this week that scientists at Harvard were able to store data in Escherichia coli bacteria. Elsewhere, researchers found a...
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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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Industry 4.0: The Fight For Data Ownership Has Just Started
Players who are able to make data-driven decisions will come out as winners. The struggle for data sovereignty is already in full swing; however, the fight isn’t over. The manufacturing industry is in...
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New “Digital Foundry” In Paris Expands GE’s Global Software Footprint
When Credit Lyonnais built itself a grand new office near the Opera in the center of Paris in the 1870s, it used a piece of the Louvre as a model and commissioned Gustave Eiffel’s atelier to design its...
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The Lazarus Project: How Software Brought To Life A Decommissioned Power...
If you want to see the future of electricity, grab an espresso and head to Northern Italy. There, just outside the industrial city of Turin, the combination of renewable energy, traditional generation...
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Neural Networks And Dynamite: AI Engineer Peter Kirk Talks About His...
In April 2016, GE Power acquired the Boston-based machine learning and data analytics startup NeuCo Inc., which uses software and artificial intelligence to improve the efficiency of coal-fired power...
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How Europe Can Drive The Next Industrial Revolution
At GE we see unprecedented opportunity for European companies and society to reboot productivity, competitiveness and prosperity, and help the region unleash investment and growth. While Europe has...
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