This Is How Digital Power Plants for Steam Can Remove Emissions Equivalent to...
The electricity industry as we have known it for the past one hundred years is being transformed.Renewables. Electric vehicles. Consumers becoming generators. Micro grids. Intelligent thermostats....
View ArticleDigital Selection: The Industrial Internet Is Helping This GE Factory Evolve...
It took evolution 4 billion years to turn the first primitive cell into a software engineer. Now a group of highly evolved engineers working at a brand-new GE factory have combined computer code and...
View ArticleFull Steam Ahead: This Software Brain For Coal-Fired Power Plants Could Help...
GE just picked up a head of steam and put it in the cloud.It was just in April that GE Power, the GE business that makes power generation equipment, acquired the Boston-based machine learning and data...
View ArticleWill Europe Lead The Fourth Industrial Revolution?
The European continent and its citizens have tremendous advantages in the new, global digital economy. Here’s how workers, entrepreneurs, companies, universities and governments can build a smart and...
View ArticleThe Next Internet Giant Also Starts With ‘G’ And Ends With ‘E’
How will software giants make their mark in the Industrial Internet and the consumer internet? The answer lies in the Internet of Things. We’re merging with our technology. We demand it in our daily...
View ArticleWhy Cities Need Digital Companies With Industrial Heritage
Who will build the streetlights, transportation networks and energy systems for intelligent cities? Companies that understand today’s shared infrastructure can help empower communities. Industrial...
View ArticleTour De Force: This New Software Is Helping Digitize An Ancient Source Of...
The city of Briançon sits in a mountainous corner of France that has become a popular destination for cycling fans, who flock to the punishing Tour de France stages there. But it may soon become a...
View ArticleJeff Immelt: Why I Am Bullish on Europe
Europe’s struggles are well documented. The coming vote in Britain on EU status, the effects of the refugee crisis, security vulnerabilities, an air of disappointment amid years of slow economic growth...
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about the discovery of a cosmic rock as large as a football field that’s been keeping Earth company for at least 100 years, vast ancient cities hidden in the Cambodian jungle and...
View ArticleHere’s Why The Latest Guinness World Record Will Keep France Lit Up Long...
First the latest news from Guinness World Records: The world’s most efficient combined-cycle power plant started producing electricity near the village of Bouchain in northern France today. The plant’s...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleGetting Green From Grey: Using Less Energy To Treat Water Can Deliver A...
The U.S. and other countries are doomed by tremendous water usage and leaky infrastructure. But a thirst for innovative solutions is leading entrepreneurs and communities to rethink ways to use...
View ArticleIn The ‘Corner Office’ With Beth Comstock
Beth Comstock, vice chair of GE, is the latest executive featured in The New York Times “Corner Office” column. In the following excerpt from the interview, she shares about her leadership style and...
View ArticleThis Coffee Filter-Like Material Is Helping Scientists Crack Zika’s Genetic Code
On March 2, 2015, Brazilian authorities put in a call to World Health Organization officials. Doctors in the country’s northeastern states had reported thousands of cases of an unidentified illness...
View ArticleTry This At Home! This Kid Built An Incredibly Detailed Model Of A Boeing 777...
Luca Iaconi-Stewart says he’s “a crazy guy who loves aviation.” That might be an understatement. The 24-year-old spent the last seven years in his parent’s house building an exquisitely precise replica...
View ArticleChina’s Growth Rates Will Rival India’s For Years to Come
American companies are watching history in the making as India and China become economic superpowers — even though both face some headwinds. Anja Manuel, a former State Department official and now...
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about a tiny robotic stingray bioengineered from rat heart muscle that can navigate an obstacle course, 3D-printed “micro-rockets” made from biodegradable silk that could one day...
View ArticleAlgorithms, Like People, Discriminate Too
Who will be held accountable when big data analytics discriminate in the marketplace? Nuala O’Connor, President & CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, explains there are no algorithms...
View ArticleFarnborough Airshow, An Aviation Grand Slam, Takes Off Today In England
Many planes heading to the Farnborough International Airshow, which opens just outside of London on Monday, start their descent over Wimbledon’s famous tennis courts. It’s an apt landing route. Just...
View ArticleWe’ve Got An Exclusive Look At Boeing’s Brand New 737 MAX Jet
Boeing test pilot Ed Wilson brought this weekend to England the American plane maker’s brand new, next-generation Boeing 737 MAX passenger jet. He flew it here for the Farnborough International Air...
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