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Software For Santa? Using Data To Optimize The North Pole
There are nearly 2 billion children under the age of 15 living in the world, up from 1 billion in 1960. In fact, kids seem to be everywhere these days, but, strangely, the shockwaves of this population...
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Can Mail Be Efficient Like Email?
Last year, 154.2 billion pieces of mail were processed and delivered by the U.S. Postal Service. Even in the age of email and other digital communication, mail remains a critical channel for customer...
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GE’s 2017 Annual Outlook: Changing The Game With A Digital Industrial Strategy
Every year, GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt hosts a meeting with analysts and investors to walk through the company’s strategy and financial goals for the upcoming year and review major wins from the...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Mice with reprogrammed cells stopped aging, paralyzed humans fed themselves with a robotic hand controlled by a cap, and a new 3D printer produced complex tissues made from living cells. Nothing...
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The Heaviest Haul: A New Locomotive Factory Will Put This Indian State On The...
The Indian town of Marhaura isn’t on many tourist destination lists.Located on the western edge of Bihar, one of the country’s most densely populated and least developed states, the town has an economy...
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Jeff Immelt: Localization Can Help America Win Around The World
In an excerpt from an essay in TIME Magazine, Jeffrey R. Immelt, chairman and CEO of GE, describes why global engagement is an economic opportunity for the U.S. and the world. Is globalization bad?...
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Labracadabra Scientists! Have Yourself An Experimental Holiday
For anyone seeking to discover their inner Edison, the holidays have come a bit early this year. That’s because last week GE launched a do-it-yourself science channel on YouTube that gives viewers the...
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Beth Comstock: 6 Ways Companies Can Be Faster, Smarter And More Adaptive
By the time you’ve gathered enough information to make a decision, the time to make that decision has already passed. This has been a periodic problem faced by managers for decades, but with the speed...
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The Snow Men Cometh: Kurt Vonnegut, Ice-Nine And White Christmas On Demand
Kurt Vonnegut’s science-fiction novel “Cat’s Cradle” revolves around a tricky compound called ice-nine that can turn water solid at room temperature. Vonnegut, who worked for GE in the 1950s as an...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
The largest Slurpee in the solar system is a billion years old, rubbing stem cells into wounds could be the next big thing, and antimatter behaves according to the laws of physics. What a relief. You...
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Finding the Next Mark Zuckerberg Is Hard Enough, But What About In Nigeria?
In cultures that equate success with higher education, how can you foster wider entrepreneurship? Mary Olushoga, AWP Network founder, describes how a business plan competition backfired and what the...
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Flesh Memory: The Heart Goes Out To The Cloud
Five years ago, Fabien Beckers left his home in Paris and arrived at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business with a Ph.D. in physics from Cambridge in his pocket, and — like many of his...
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Look Up! An Out-Of-This-World Holiday Spectacular
Get ready for a new kind of light show after NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope launches in late 2018. The supersensitive device will fly to a spot a million miles from Earth and then orbit the sun. It...
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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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If Two Countries Waged Cyber War On Each Other, Here’s What To Expect
The scale of cyber attacks on companies are becoming more threatening. What would happen after an assault on a nation’s grid? An interconnected world has made us more susceptible to the dangers of a...
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All You Want For Christmas In 2027: These Stocking Stuffers Are In Your Future
You don’t have to be a die-hard geek to start assembling your holiday list of the future today. We will help you. Over the last year, we visited a number of GE labs and talked to the scientists and...
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Machine Nirvana: How GE Is Using AI to Build A Powerhouse Of Knowledge
GE was still essentially a startup when its managers hired young MIT chemistry professor Willis Whitney to open the company’s first laboratory in 1900. Unlike Thomas Edison’s Menlo Park “invention...
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GE At 125: These Pioneers Helped Shape The Way We Live [Video]
GE will be 125 years old in 2017, and the company has shaped many aspects of modernity we now take for granted. Over the last few years, we’ve visited pioneers such as Nick Holonyak, who developed in...
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10 Tech Stories From 2016 You Should Know About
A power plant hidden in a cave drilled deep into the Swiss Alps, a jet engine so large it could swallow Shaquille O’Neil with Kobe Bryant sitting on his shoulders and DNA research that’s helping...
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An Expert’s 6 Bright Ideas On The ‘Golden Age Of Renewable Energy’
Meet Nick Miller, a power-systems engineer with a passion for integrating renewables into electricity grids. Here’s a guy who can ramp up a high-energy discussion just by rubbing wind and sun together....
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