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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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This Is What We Call A Sea Change! Shell’s Floating Giant Will Revolutionize...
It’s not unusual to see giant cruise or cargo ships out at sea today. But even by those standards, Shell’s new floating liquefied natural gas facility is huge.Dubbed Prelude after the gas field where...
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These Scientists Are Hacking The Immune System To Fight Hackers
Hackers have hit everyone from Minecraft players to the Internal Revenue Service and an aide to a U.S. presidential contender. But few attacks could have larger and longer-lasting implications than an...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Diamond batteries made from nuclear waste, a 3D-printed dog’s nose that could sniff out bombs and cancer, and video games that can improve eyesight — these are just some of the eye-popping discoveries...
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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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What Do AI And Fighter Pilots Have To Do With E-Commerce? Sentient’s Antoine...
Sentient Technologies CEO Antoine Blondeau describes how a principle for fighter pilots is applicable to the design of automated intelligent systems. And these new advances in artificial intelligence...
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Amazon’s Alexa And The Destiny Of The Internet Of Things
Today, GE announced its latest LED table lamp featuring Amazon Alexa. It’s only the beginning for the smart home of the future, according to Charlie Kindel, director of Amazon Alexa Smart Home. 1....
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Sticking The Landing: Behind The Winning App At GE’s Industrial Internet...
Hackathons are like Olympic-level gymnastics competitions but for software developers. Competitors set aside their lives and work like crazy with the hopes of coming home the victor. For a team of five...
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This Is What We Call A Bright Light: GE Just Put Alexa Into An LED Lamp
Don’t be surprised if in the coming year you see people starting to talk to their lights — telling them to adjust the thermostat, order dinner and even read the latest headlines.That Jetsons-like...
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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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From Preemie to Preschool: The Miracle Twins Strike Back
Twin brothers Ethan and Noah Caisley are typical mischievous 4-year-olds. Just the other day, they came up with a plan for one of them to bust out of their preschool while the other created a...
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Could You Soon Fly An Airplane With Your Mind?
By 2030, there won’t be language as we know it today. It will be the language of the brain. We are on the brink of a revolution in mind technologies, from the road to the skies, according to a Q&A...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week’s haul includes a rocket engine that breaks the laws of physics, a look at the serious side of putty, and astronauts who are about to go fishing for space junk with the help of a century-old...
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The Whole Earth Catalog: Google Updates Its Planetary Picture Show
Last week the world’s largest search company released an updated version of the Google Earth Timelapse, a gripping visual treat exposing the planet’s changing surface going back to 1984.Working with...
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Make It Bigger: Ike Eisenhower And This GE Engineer Have Something In Common
Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower claimed that whenever he ran into a problem, he’d “always make it bigger” to see the outlines of a solution. But you don’t need to be a U.S. president to believe that bigger is...
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After 50 Years Of Isolation, Myanmar’s Clear Agenda For Infrastructure Emerges
Once the ribbon is cut in a new market, how do you build success? After nearly two decades, the U.S. officially lifted economic sanctions against Myanmar by executive order in October. John G. Rice,...
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The California Duck Must Die (But It’s Not What You Think)
Solar power might be a shining example of a great renewable-energy source. But combined with existing infrastructure, it’s wreaking havoc on California’s electric power grid. So much so the problem...
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Good Pill Hunting: How Biotech Fell In Love With Beantown
Boston has a long history of medical breakthroughs going all the way back to Onesimus, an African slave who introduced Cotton Mather to inoculation during a smallpox epidemic in 1721. This was seven...
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A Way Through The Dark: Pakistan’s Clean Energy Development Opportunity
Blamed on years of mismanagement, an endemic energy crisis in Pakistan has crippled the economy and led to misery for millions. Can an improved power supply boost foreign direct investment there?...
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Tiny Giant: This Bitty Switch Aims To Supercharge 5G Mobile Networks
The flight attendants are about to shut the cabin doors when you realize you forgot to download that sci-fi blockbuster you were looking forward to watching during the flight. As they tell you to shut...
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