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Playing Doctor: This VR Could Walk Physicians Through The Patient’s Body
Ludovic Avot and Yannick Le Berre are big video game fans. Avot’s favorite: Fallout 4, which guides players through post-apocalyptic Boston. The game is bleak but immersive, and playing it gave the GE...
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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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My Biggest Career Risk That Paid Off
Calculated risk or not, sometimes you have to take a leap of faith. John G. Rice, Vice Chairman of GE and President and CEO of GE Global Growth Organization, recounts a risky move that worked in his...
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The End Of Globalization? Davos Disagrees
Intense debate at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos this month centered on the global economy and protectionism. Here’s what some of the world’s leaders had to say about the...
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GE Just Turned the World’s Most Powerful Jet Engine Into A 65-Megawatt Power...
GE is taking the world’s largest jet engine and turning it into a power plant. The machine’s beating heart comes from the GE90-115B, which is the largest and most powerful jet engine, capable of...
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Tesla Coal: How Technology Is Helping Eastern European Coal-Fired Power...
Nikola Tesla is a national hero in Serbia. Although he was born in what is now Croatia, Serbs still recall the day in 1892 when the scientist made his first, and only, visit to Belgrade, the Serbian...
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The Lucky One: How Technology Helped This 15-Year-Old Woman Beat “Incurable”...
When 15-year-old Jessica Vargas from Cali, Colombia, started getting headaches two years ago, a brain scan told her family something they never wanted or expected to hear: Jessica had a large,...
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Davy 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...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Scientists stared in the face of our 535-year-old ancestor, started a conversation between live and artificial cells and developed nanorobots powered by gastric acid that can deliver medicine to your...
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Cutting the Cord: The Future Of VR Headsets Has To Be Wireless
Cordless virtual reality head-mounted displays may be the key to bringing VR to the masses, not just for households and especially for enterprise use. But companies will need technological innovation...
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The Lucky One: How Technology Helped This 15-Year-Old Woman Beat “Incurable”...
When 15-year-old Jessica Vargas from Cali, Colombia, started getting headaches two years ago, a brain scan told her family something they never wanted or expected to hear: Jessica had a large,...
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Why UPS Drivers Don’t Turn Left And You Probably Shouldn’t Either
Going round in circles can actually make your journey more efficient, so why don’t more people do it, asks Graham Kendall, computer science professor at the University of Nottingham? It might seem...
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These Drones Have A Flair For Flares: UAVs Are Taking Over The Dangerous Work...
If you’ve ever driven by a petroleum refinery, you’ve probably seen a flare stack “on fire.” What looks like shooting flames are the waste gases produced during chemical manufacturing burning off. At...
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Happy Birthday, Mr. Spielberg: Computer Pioneer Who Helped Design GE’s First...
The name Spielberg brings to mind a movie magician whose blockbusters changed storytelling forever. But Steven Spielberg isn’t the first disruptor in the family. His father, Arnold, who turns 100 on...
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What Would The World Look Like If Companies Really Looked Like The World?
A balanced workforce is a business imperative, and today, the digital industrial revolution raises the stakes even higher. “In my 25 years working for GE, I have learned that the best business outcomes...
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The Slide Rule Sisters Would Be Proud: GE’s Female Engineers Talk About...
Florence Fogler put down her work for a moment. Mustering language simple enough for a reporter to understand, she explained her work: figuring out how to squeeze more power from coal by unraveling the...
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Engineering The Future: GE’s Goal To Bridge The STEM Gender Gap By 2020
GE today announced goals of having 20,000 women to fill STEM roles at GE by 2020 and obtaining 50:50 representation for all our technical entry-level programs. The program will significantly increase...
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Developing The Perfect ‘Imperfect’ AI System
In terms of algorithms and techniques, we’re still in the infancy of artificial intelligence. And even in the future, A.I. systems will need humans just as much as humans need A.I., writes Manuela...
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GE: Innovation And The Path To 20,000
By bringing innovation into the lives of millions over the course of decades, General Electric has helped drive the Dow Jones Industrial Average’s growth to 20,000. On the Dow Jones Industrial...
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5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
Engineers are turning trees into power plants, using sound waves to hear the footsteps of disease, and building an AI that can warn you when you are talking too much. Enough said. This AI Can Tell You...
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