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You’re Not Safe In Your Cubicle: Middle-Skilled Workers Will Be Left Behind
Workers need new skills to compete in today’s economy, some more urgently than others — but on whose dime? Long gone are the days when a high school graduate walked into a manufacturing plant and...
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Sharp As A Tack: This Smart Needle Is Helping Doctors Make Better Diagnoses
Neonatal meningitis in one of the leading causes of infant mortality in the western world, but getting an early diagnosis isn’t easy. Doctors need to collect a sample of spinal fluid, a painful and...
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Solar Has Big Limitations, But This Wonder Material May Change That
Three years ago, physicist Henry Snaith, of Oxford University, one of the earliest researchers of perovskite, said that material would usher in a “new era for low-cost, high-efficiency” solar cells....
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How GE Helped This German Power Plant Overcome Its Midlife Crisis
The Wedel coal-fired power plant has sat on the banks of the Elbe River for 50 years. When it opened in 1966, war was raging in Vietnam, “Star Trek” debuted on American television, and John Lennon...
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GE Buys $500 Million Machine Analytics Firm
Since GE started building its digital business five years ago, it has pursued organic growth, combining a century of domain expertise in building big machines with asset management software and...
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2 Largest Steam Turbines Ever Made Are Heading For The English Countryside....
The Arabelle steam turbine has a name befitting a European princess, but it’s anything but dainty. The machine—the largest steam turbine ever built—is longer than an Airbus 380 and taller than the...
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7 Habits of Increasingly Profitable Nonprofits
Many nonprofits that seek additional funding navigate a complicated balancing act when providing fee-for-services. Julia Roig, president of PartnersGlobal, which supports local civic leaders in more...
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Kurt’s Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut was GE’s PR Man Before Becoming a Bestselling...
Before Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote the bestsellers Slaughterhouse Five and Cat’s Cradle, he lived near Schenectady, New York, and worked as a GE publicist. According to Vonnegut’s biographer Charles J....
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5 Coolest Things On Earth The Week
Scientists at Duke University used an MRI scanner to read the minds of 32 human subjects, Department of Energy researchers reported on nanomaterials that could self-assemble into novel computer chips,...
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Will Smart Machines Be Less Biased Than Humans?
Some critics fearful of biased outcomes due to artificial intelligence software argue for transparency. That’s not the answer, argues Robert Atkinson, founder and president of the Information...
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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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Electricity 2.0: Why Asia’s Utilities Are Getting Ready To Download The...
Asian economies grew an average of 6 percent last year—nearly triple the rate of Europe and the U.S.—and their appetite for electricity is growing accordingly. The U.S. Energy Information...
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Turn Me On: The World’s Largest Powerships Are Helping To Electrify Asia, Africa
A floating power plant isn’t something you see every day. The massive ships look like plants you’d see on land complete with tall exhaust stacks—except these plants are bobbing in the ocean.They might...
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These Scientists Are Hacking The Immune System To Fight Hackers
The World Anti-Doping Agency said on Tuesday that a group of Russian hackers known variously as Tsar Team and Fancy Bear broke into a database holding confidential medical data of Olympic athletes and...
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Unlocking The Environmental Potential Of The Digital Grid
Breakthrough digital grid technologies are more efficient, reduce emissions and can contribute to a cleaner global power system. Electric grid systems can be centuries old, but a host of digital and...
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Thousand Power Islands: These Technologies Will Help Turn On The Lights In...
From Jakarta’s glittering glass towers—which seem to grow as fast as rattan—to remote fishing villages with no plumbing and electricity, Indonesia is a country of contrasts. Spread across some 18,000...
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Brains For Trains: How Software Is Making Trains Smarter
We fly connected planes and design self-driving cars, but what about smart trains? If you pay close attention, there is the faint sound of the whistle coming from around the digital bend.At this week’s...
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Data Up Close And Personal: Welcome To Social Media ‘Hyper-personalization’
Social media is continuously changing the way companies advertise in a bid to win the internet retail game. These days, hyper-personalization is intensifying the race to use customer data in every...
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Supporting Trade, Not Aid, In Africa
When it comes to Africa, President Obama’s mantra has always been “trade not aid.” Two years ago he put that idea into practice at the first U.S. – Africa Business Forum, which drew $33 billion in...
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Turnt4Turbines: Top Photogs Shoot Block Island Wind Farm
It’s the last week of summer. Sunset. You’re 3 miles out to sea, 500 feet above the churning waves in a little red helicopter with (you hope) a trusty seatbelt and no door.Roughly at eye level, a white...
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