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Clearing The Air: This Woman Is Helping South Africa’s New Coal Power Plant...
People often visit South Africa to bask in the country’s sunshine, learn about its history and discover its stunning natural beauty. But just east of the capital Pretoria, amid a maze of cranes and...
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Call 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...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Researchers built an AI that learned to how to code, found chemicals in a giant lizard’s blood that killed deadly bacteria, and proposed efficient wind turbines fashioned to behave like insect wings....
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution And Challenges For Government
The Fourth Industrial Revolution will increasingly give citizens the ability to use technology to seek greater autonomy, which will challenge the power of government and institutions in disruptive...
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From Light To Bright: San Diego Is Building The World’s Largest Municipal...
San Diego’s newest streetlights might not look all that special — and that’s exactly the point. Designed to blend in with the rest of the city’s outdoor lighting, they’re easy to overlook. Under the...
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Metalmorphoses: This Greek Digital Smelter Uses Software To Keep A River Of...
Home to the Valley of the Muses, Greece’s Mount Helicon has been hailed by Ovid and Hesiod as the font of inspiration and poetry. But today, the plains between Helicon’s foothills and the cool blue...
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Jeff Immelt: Leading A Digital Industrial Era
GE released its 2016 Annual Report today. It includes a letter to shareowners written by GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt. In the letter, Immelt shares his thinking about GE’s performance and role in...
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Solving The Energy Equation: How Business And The Environment Can Thrive...
In about two decades, companies and governments will invest between $7 trillion and $11 trillion in renewable energy. Carlos Pascual, senior vice president at IHS, Ecomagination Advisory Board member...
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You Are Entering Another Dimension: New Software Allows Power Plant Engineers...
A typical power plant is a very large and very complicated network of machines for making electricity that must be kept in good order. It’s not an easy task. During the design phase of a power plant...
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Put It Into Print: The Future Of Manufacturing In America (And Everywhere...
Who would’ve thought that Pittsburgh and its environs would be a paradise for tech geeks?On a recent day in January, you could step out of your hotel, catch a self-driving taxi developed locally at...
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With 5G Technology, The Internet Of (20.8 Billion) Things Will Be Realized
The sky’s the limit with the Internet of Things, if you have the right network. Sooner than you think, 5G networks will offer data speeds 10 to 100 times faster than current 4G networks. This will...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A huge neuron that wraps around the brain like a “crown of thorns” could hold a key to consciousness, artificial synapses could lead to brain-like computers, and solid-state batteries could...
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Crushing Pollution: This Technology And Software Will Make A Huge Coal Power...
Locals call Ramagundam the city of energy. The largest power plant in South India standing nearby along the banks of the Godavari River, for example, is capable of generating a whopping 2,600 megawatts...
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With AI, Answers Are Cheap, But Questions Are The Future
We’re getting reliable, instant answers from machines thanks to advancements in artificial intelligence. But if knowledge is growing exponentially because of scientific tools, then we should be running...
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Honey, I Shrunk The Contract: How Plain English Is Helping GE Keep Its...
When GE Aviation combined its three digital businesses into a single Digital Solutions unit nearly four years ago, their salespeople were eager to speed up the growth they had seen in the years before...
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Things Are Super Weird Right Now, But It’s Not A Glitch In The Matrix, Says...
If only we were stuck in beta. If the past 12 months have you feeling like you’re stuck in the beta version of some giant, buggy simulation, we’re right there with you, what with the World Series, the...
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Major 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...
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Make It Better: This Industrial-Strength Talent Has A Heart For Helping And A...
“Most people probably wouldn’t say this, but I love hospitals,” says Lane Konkel. As a child growing up in Wisconsin, the 26-year-old lean manufacturing engineer would accompany her father, an...
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The Digital Gender Divide Is An Economic Problem For Everyone
Of the 7.1 billion people in the world, men make up eighteen percent and women sixteen percent of people who are online. That means there are 200 million fewer women online. And when women are offline,...
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Sound And Vision: Healing This Little Boy’s Broken Heart Required More Than Love
Erica Endicott was almost halfway through her first pregnancy and she was feeling great. When the date rolled around for the second trimester ultrasound — a routine test doctors use to check that...
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