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Move Over Pokémon, GE Is Testing Augmented Reality Helmets In Qatar’s Giant...
What makes Pokémon Go so addictive? Blame it on augmented reality (AR), which populates what looks like the real world with Pokémon creatures. Now that technology is being used for a much bigger play...
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Cubs Win: After Historic Game 7 Of The World Series, Here’s The Origin Story...
You know the result.As the Cleveland Indians and Chicago Cubs squared off last night at Cleveland’s Progressive Field—in search of their first World Series wins in 68 and 108 years respectively—it was...
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Here’s What We Really Should Be Debating When It Comes To Trade
Of American micro and small businesses that sell on eBay, 97 percent export. Small online sellers are the new face of world trade. Export credit agencies must learn to support them, writes Kati...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Extra! Extra! Invoking Maxwell’s demon, scientists at a U.S. government lab say the second law of thermodynamics may not always apply. Neutron stars, bones and pasta apparently have a few things in...
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How Wearable Toys Are Helping Solve the Healthcare Crisis
Despite the promise of a revolution in health, consumer wearables thus far have delivered little more than a flood of meaningless data. Finally, that’s starting to change. A new approach that combines...
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An Office With A View: New “Digital Foundry” In Paris Is Forging GE’s...
Ping-Pong tables and foosball aren’t the sorts of things people typically associate with a 124-year-old company that builds turbines for power plants and engines for planes. But they are part of the...
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High Light: The Night GE Electrified An Ancient Himalayan Village
The night the 700-year-old mountain oasis of Rakuru was to see its first electric light, the whole village gathered in the largest room and waited for someone to flip the switch.But nothing...
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Back To The Future: This GE Software Engineer Used Code To Bring New Muscle...
Grease monkeys have been tinkering with Ford Mustangs — the most iconic of the classic American muscle cars — ever since the first one rolled out in 1964. But a car enthusiast in Germany has taken...
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Tomorrow’s Airlines: In Crisis Or Ready For Take-off?
To meet the growing demand in air traffic, Boeing predicts that there will be a need for 617,000 commercial airline pilots between now and 2035. Commercial airlines are uniquely sensitive to global...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned that a group of scientists is getting close to finding the physical seat of consciousness. And we discovered that a pair of paralyzed monkeys used a wireless device to regain the...
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Das Ist Techno! This Power Plant With 3D-Printed Parts Is Pumping Up Berlin...
3D printing has quickly evolved from a cool way to make plastic gizmos to an increasingly mainstream method of printing machine parts from the toughest metals. In fact, you can already hitch a ride on...
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Service Economy 2.0: Big GE Digital Acquisition Uses Cloud Analytics To Keep...
GE Digital’s latest acquisition is going to make life easier for the people who fix the jet engines, power plants, medical scanners and other technology that we rely on every day. Pleasanton,...
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You Say Tomato, I Say Terabyte: These Dutch Fruits Of The Vine Are Being...
Dutchman Ferdi van Elswijk has fond memories of the summer of 1987, when he was 11 years old and working part-time in his uncle’s 1.9-hectare commercial greenhouse, filling dispensers with sugar water...
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What’s Cooking? How Bit Stew, GE’s Latest Digital Acquisition, Spices Up The...
Thomas Edison famously said, “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Kevin Collins can relate. By fanning the embers of a promising idea for years, he built his powerful...
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The First Spielberg Blockbuster: GE Computers [Video]
One day, when he was still barely a teenager, the film director Steven Spielberg came to visit his father, Arnold, at work. It was the late 1950s and the elder Spielberg was building computers for GE...
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This Is What We Call Data Mining: Software Is Helping This Platinum Operator...
As operations manager at a South African platinum mine, Percy French has faced huge challenges over the past few years because of volatility in commodity prices. The price of platinum has dropped in...
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GE Takes Predix From The Cloud To The Edge
It’s been a year since GE opened Predix, its operating system for the Industrial Internet, to outside companies. Since then, it has enabled engineers to write apps, harvest data from trains, planes,...
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What Happens When You Put An Intel Chip In A LED Light? Built-in Intelligence...
The shift to using more efficient lights inspired GE and Intel to create smart LEDs that can see, hear and sense their surroundings, creating data that can improve efficiency and empower smart city...
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India’s Massive Reliance Industries Holding Just Said It Would Build Apps On...
Reliance Industries, India’s country’s second-largest publicly traded company, said today it will start using Predix, GE’s cloud-based operating system for the Industrial Internet to optimize its...
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Keep Calm And Carry On: This Software Code Can Protect Subsea Rigs From...
As a senior robotics and machine-to-machine systems scientist, Judith Guzzo spends most of her days in a lab at GE’s Global Research Center in upstate New York. But in late June, she broke out the...
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