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GE And Microsoft Join Forces To Give The Industrial Cloud Extra Power
The industrial cloud is about to get a lot bigger.GE and Microsoft Corp. are uniting their cloud computing technologies in a partnership that will bring GE’s Predix platform for the Industrial Internet...
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Are You Ready For The World’s Largest Jet Engine? It’s As Wide As A Boeing...
A 10 percent increase in fuel efficiency might not sound like a lot, but in aviation, according to Wired, “engineers would step over their own mothers for a one percent bump.”As large in diameter as...
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Where Jet Engines Take a Licking But Keep On Ticking
Every day is a bad day for flying if you hang out with Brian DeBruin. DeBruin runs GE Aviation’s jet engine test operations site in Peebles, Ohio, and his job is to make sure that GE engines keep...
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We’ve Watched The World’s Newest Cargo Jet Swallow A Supersonic Car
The most unusual machine at this week’s Farnborough International Airshow in England isn’t a plane at all but a life-size model of the Bloodhound, a jet-powered car vying not only to break the speed of...
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The Airline Of The Future Will Be Powered By Data
The Industrial Internet is changing the way the world does business — and that includes at 35,000 feet. That fact is clearly on display at this year’s Farnborough International Airshow, which started...
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Are You Ready For The 18-Hour Flight?
Make sure to check out our playlist at the end of the article, inspired by Qatar Airways’ 18-hour flight. The oil embargo of 1973 was a miserable period when American towns banned Christmas lights to...
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Forget Iron Man: Skintight Suits Are The Future Of Robotic Exoskeletons
Exoskeletons don’t have to be the bulky armor-like suits imagined in science fiction. Researchers are developing soft, wearable robots that mimic muscle movements. These “second skins” could...
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Leave It To Software: Here’s How Data Analytics Will Make Airlines Fly Smarter
When the Dubai-based carrier flydubai started looking for new ways to make decisions based on the terabytes of data coming from its planes and pass the savings on to customers, the carrier did...
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Space Age Ceramics Are Aviation’s New Cup Of Tea
People have been making things from iron and steel for more than 3,000 years. Machines built from their alloys have landed on the moon and reached the very bottom of the ocean. But engineers such as GE...
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In The Belly Of The Beast: Inside One Of The World’s Largest Cargo Jets
Not all jet engines work hard when they’re in the air. Like off-duty pilots flying jump seat, GE sometimes moves its engines in the belly of the massive Antonov An-124 Ruslan freighters operated by the...
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Pokémon Goes To The Office: GE Chief Economist Explains How Gaming and Work...
Gaming and technological innovation are merging. As they scale across industry, they will power the next wave of growth. We all love to play. Just look at the reports on the latest Pokémon Go craze and...
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GE And CFM Win $25 Billion In New Deals At Farnborough Airshow
The Farnborough International Airshow will stay open to the public over the weekend, but the business part is over. GE and CFM International, GE’s joint company with France’s Safran Aircraft Engines,...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned that keeping quiet makes even computers look smarter, we wondered how viruses and diseases can determine what we do and even who we are, and we pondered the mysteries of the...
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The $3.1B Collaborative ‘Co-Bot’ Market Isn’t Hazard-Free to Humans
Collaborative robots, known as co-bots, work along side humans without the need for traditional safety cages. While their use throughout industry is expected to increase rapidly, their risks still need...
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Here’s What Will Happen When 30 Billion Devices Are Connected To The Internet
Reaching everything from households to businesses, the Internet of Things is changing lifestyles and productivity. Scientists have just opened the doors to The Internet of Nano Things, where medicine...
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Software Will Light The Way To Cleaner Electricity: Q&A With GE Power’s...
Henry Ford’s Model T looks like no car on the road today and the Wright Flyer has been rightfully retired in the Smithsonian. And yet another piece of technology that predates them both—the electric...
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Back In Black: At A German Wind Farm, Direct Current From The Company Edison...
The 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago was a high point in American history. The fair boasted the first Ferris wheel, the first moving walkways and the introduction of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. But for many...
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How Additive Technologies Are Paving A Path To A Full-Scale Manufacturing...
GE’s Christine Furtoss explains how additive technologies today are making breakthroughs, from surgical procedures to jet engine parts. In the future, the use of 3-D models in additive manufacturing...
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The Great Farnborough Airshow Scavenger Hunt For GE Tech
GE technology has been hiding in many unexpected places at the Farnborough International Airshow, which ends on Sunday in England. It was in the wings of the latest wide-body plane from Airbus, the...
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Gone Protein Fishing: Sweden Is Building A Hub For Medicine’s Future In The...
The Swedish town of Uppsala has been a center of medical innovation for the past 350 years. In 1663, the University of Uppsala opened an anatomical theatre built into the cupola of the Gustavianum, the...
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