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11 Coolest Things On Earth This Year
Last January, we decided to launch a weekly column taking stock of the most exciting research taking place in labs around the world. It’s been a blast. We’ve learned about a novel written by an AI,...
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Best Photos of 2016: The GE Edition
Every year, GE sends photographers, filmmakers and other artists around the world to document its technology in action. 2016 was no different. Pilot and photographer Adam Senatori flew to the...
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Automation Isn’t The End Of The World — Here’s Why
Robots probably will take our jobs. That doesn’t have to be bad news, writes Leonardo Quattrucci, policy assistant to the Head of the European Commission’s European Political Strategy Centre. The...
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Dr. Data: This Software Sniffs Out Sick Power Plants Before They Go Dark
If a bearing starts to wobble in Korea, will it be felt in Kuala Lumpur? The answer, increasingly, is yes. GE has been using software to monitor big machines remotely, detecting bad vibrations, pesky...
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Soon, The Only Tech Jobs Will Be Design Or Data
The robots are coming for web programming. And coding schools will soon be obsolete. Even an engineer admits: with increasing automation, technology will soon replace the majority of tech jobs...
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He Puts Sunshine In Your Pocket: Tespack’s Solar Tech Charges Gadgets On The Go
You can access 2 million apps on your mobile devices, but what are they good for when the battery runs out? Nada, says entrepreneur Mario Aguilera, who learned the drawbacks of quick-draining batteries...
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This Robot Doesn’t Feel Your Pain
As the approaching winter solstice shrouded Oslo in gloom and darkness last month, the workers at a GE factory located in the Norwegian capital found their cheer in a bright green robot known...
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With Bio-Texture Modeling, Feeling Is Believing For 3D-Printed Replica Organs
Dr. Maki Sugimoto created lifelike organ models with 3D imagery and printing to diagnose and treat patients with more information. For example, he thought surgeons could better understand a tumor’s...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
It’s the start of 2017, and we can’t help but wonder what amazing scientific advances await. Judging by the year’s first haul, we may soon be able to push things around with tractor beams, print...
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This Is What We Call A Smart Car: Talking Batteries Will Help EVs Find Their...
Electric carmakers have spent more than a century searching for a way to make their vehicles truly competitive. It never occurred to them to ask the batteries.“Since Edison’s time, inventors have...
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Who Will Lead In Today’s Corporate World? How About A Veteran?
Former U.S. Air Force Crew Chief Jeff Schnitzer, who now works as general manger at GE Energy Connections, shares stories about the unexpected ways his military service helps him do his job. How does...
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That’s Hot: New Gas Could Eliminate This Super Strong Global Warming Culprit
Ask any farmer, and they’ll tell you that weather patterns have become erratic. Monsoon seasons, once as predictable as sunrises and taxes, now fluctuate wildly, making it difficult, if not impossible,...
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I Machine, You Human: How AI Is Helping GE Build A Powerhouse Of Knowledge
Every fall, GE Global Research holds a scientific gathering called the Whitney Symposium highlighting the latest scientific trends. Last year the two-day event explored industrial applications of...
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The Factories Of The Past Are Turning Into Data Centers Of The Future
Datacenters are taking over the factories where workers once processed checks, baked bread and printed Bibles. What will the rise ofthe information-based economy mean for American cities? We live in a...
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The Sword In The Virtual Stone: Archeologists Are Using Software And...
In 2012, Berlin conservator Katrin Lück brought a tiny, severely corroded lead scroll to GE’s Technical Solutions Center in the town of Wunstorf in northern Germany.Lück believed that the precious,...
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The Last Of The Hush-Hush Boys: Joseph Sorota, Who Helped Build The First...
Joseph Sorota, likely the last member of the World War II-era top-secret team that designed the first U.S. jet engine, died Saturday at his home in Singer Island, Florida. He was 96.Sorota was still an...
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Don’t Try This At Home: You Can Fight Fire With Fire
When Bastard in William Shakespeare’s “The Life and Death of King John” tells the monarch, “Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye. Be stirring as the time; be...
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The Futuristic Health Benefits Of Self-Driving Cars, Thanks to AI
In the future, self-driving cars won’t just prevent deaths from human error. An autonomous vehicle will reroute you to a hospital if a driver has a heart attack or a stroke, greatly increasing the...
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When Hardware Met Software: The Digital Twin Inside The World’s Largest...
Khalid Salem has spent his entire GE career — all 16 years — selling power generation equipment to customers all over the Gulf. But last fall the Jordan native found himself in a Catch-22.Aluminium...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists bioengineered salmonella that can kill the deadliest brain cancer, observed bacteria in a slime that “communicate with one another like neurons in the brain,” and tied the world’s tiniest...
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