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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleHow A 10-Minute Conversation With A Machine Saved $12 Million
Unscheduled airplane maintenance is an $8 billion headache for fliers and the global airline industry. But a machine’s Digital Twin — a replica built with AI and a human mind — can minimize this. The...
View ArticleThe 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,...
View ArticleThe Power of Power: How Reliable Electricity Is Helping Africa’s 2nd Most...
Brothers Flour & Biscuit Factory, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, makes cookies with evocative names like Dream Sandwich, Glory Banana and Cocktail Cream. But inside the factory, life if anything but...
View Article5 Tips To Navigate The New World Of Industrial Buying
The B2B online retail market is expected to double the size of the B2C online market by 2020. Caught in a digital tsunami with the Fourth Industrial Revolution? Here are five ways industrial...
View ArticleNew $1.4 Billion GE Power Deal Will Supply Iraq With Reliable Electricity
Frederic Ribieras spent the last three months living and working in Baghdad. He says the Iraqi capital is a different place from what you see on the news. “Iraq is not what you see on CNN,” says...
View Article5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about an A.I. potentially smarter that three-quarters of American adults, read about a soft robot that can keep a weak heart beating and watched Venus do The Wave. Raise your arms...
View ArticleAmazon Turns To Wind To Power Its Cloud
Amazon may be the largest online retailer in the world, but the company is focused on having a positive impact on the ground as well. With an ever-expanding global network of fulfillment and data...
View ArticleIs Health Care Too Big To Fail? Or Is Failure Exactly What We Need?
The U.S. ranks first in per capita health spending but last in health system performance of 11 major developed countries. And the way we use our money for health care — 38 percent of which goes to...
View ArticleGE Reports 4Q Earnings. Here Are The Highlights
GE, the world’s largest digital-industrial company, released fourth-quarter and year-end results for 2016 today.For the year, GE’s operating results were in line with goals set out for investors. The...
View ArticleThese Synthetic Snippets Of DNA Could Make A New Generation Of Drugs...
There’s more to protein than steak, eggs and the South Beach Diet. The complex molecules encoded by our DNA are the workhorses of our cells, being responsible for growth, maintenance and repair.The...
View ArticleArchitecture For Autism Could Be A Breakthrough For Kids With ASD
Sean Ahlquist, assistant professor of architecture at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Michigan, creates architecture, one of the few design mediums that...
View ArticleCall Of Duty: This Woman’s VR Simulation Makes Factories Work Better
Virtual reality became domesticated last year — at least in America — when the VR viewer Google Cardboard arrived for the first time with the Sunday New York Times. Today, you could use it to explore...
View ArticleJust Press Print: GE Is Building A 3D-Printing Vending Machine For The Jetsons
When biomedical researchers are looking for a new drug, they study hundreds of chemicals at a time to learn how slightly different combinations of molecules will attack a particular disease. It’s...
View ArticleMajor Laser: Blazing Past Obstacles, This Laser Pioneer Will Join Edison,...
Marshall Jones knows a thing or two about beating the odds, but it’s not just because of his knack for mathematics. A model of perseverance, the laser pioneer was raised by his extended family on a...
View Article4 Things Businesses Can And Should Automate
Robotic process automation will soon aid workers not just in factories but in cubicles. Whether it’s making a PowerPoint deck or on-boarding a client, automation opportunities through artificial...
View ArticleGE Oil & Gas Chief Digital Officer Explains How Software Is Changing His...
Earlier in January, GE’s Oil & Gas business signed a $180 million agreement with Transocean, one of the world’s largest offshore drilling companies, to service the massive six-story machines called...
View ArticleDavy Jones’ Software: Making Subsea Oil More Productive Through Data
Drilling down into the ocean’s floor for oil is challenging even in the best of times. It involves installing and operating massive pieces of equipment in greater and greater depths, crushing pressures...
View Article5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
Scientists successfully grew human stem cells inside a pig for the first time, built an AI that rivals dermatologists in spotting skin cancer and created a metal out of hydrogen — a material so unique...
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