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Green Day: GE Grabs Solar Panels And Shovels For Global Earth Day Celebration
Employees making steam turbines at GE Power in Schenectady, New York, recently realized they had an untapped energy resource outside their doorstep: a huge parking lot (see top image). So, in honor of...
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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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Cities Of 2050: Data And Tech Will Fuel The Megacities Of The Future
When it comes to designing infrastructure, one thing is for sure: Big Data collected through the IoT will play a key role in growing the megacities of 2050, including using data to watch people’s...
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Working The Crowd: This Fuse Will Set The Collective Brain On Fire
Fans of HBO’s “Silicon Valley” series are well versed in the trials and tribulations facing coders struggling to write better compression software. That show is fictional, but the problem is very real....
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Physicians in Philadelphia have developed an artificial womb, researchers in England built an AI that can accurately predict the risk of heart disease, and MIT engineers designed a robotic 3D printer...
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Have A Heart: New Software Could 3D Print Organ Replicas On Demand
Erica Endicott was pregnant with her son, Kaden, when cardiologists at Phoenix Children’s Heart Center discovered that the left side of the boy’s heart was not growing properly. Kaden, who is healthy...
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How Close Are We Really To Connecting Human Minds To Artificial Intelligence?
Brain-computer interfacing is a hot topic in the tech world, with Elon Musk’s announcement of his new Neuralink startup. Here, researchers separate what’s science from what’s currently still fiction....
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The Future Of Home Robotics: Capable, Personable And Cute?
If working in robotics for the last 15 years has taught Mayfield Robotics CTO Kaijen Hsiao anything, it’s that as the market for home robots evolves, so will consumer expectations. Those expectations...
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Plane Power: How Software And Jet Engine Tech Is Helping Angola Leapfrog Into...
Available capital isn’t the only obstacle to economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa. Another major hurdle is the lack of reliable electricity. In fact, large parts of the region have no power at all....
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In The Digital Age, Employees Can Be Your Best Recruiters Or Worst Critics
Despite a problematic skills gap, particularly in the technology and manufacturing sectors, too many companies ignore their strongest potential supporters and critics to attract new talent: their...
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The Startup Power Plant: These Engineers Are Building Turbines The Silicon...
Many management experts are obsessed with “startup culture,” the particular mix of vision, energy and nimbleness that allows companies to take an idea, rapidly prototype it and get it to market in...
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Why North America’s Largest Independent Renewable Energy Provider Is Betting...
If one of the world’s largest independent developers of renewable energy, now a venture investor, is bullish on a new technology, industry watchers listen. Invenergy, which develops, owns and operates...
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Software, Please: Doctors Are Looking To AI To Speed Up Diagnosis
The University of California, San Francisco and GE Healthcare are studying how artificial intelligence and machine learning can help doctors and caregivers make faster and smarter clinical decisions....
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Back On The Rails: How Machinists In Pennsylvania Are Helping Drive Angola’s...
A few years ago, a group of investors from Singapore planned to open a large iron mine in southwest Angola’s Huila province. The mine would bring jobs and money to the local economy, but the project...
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Jeff Immelt: Competing for the World
GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt delivered remarks at Georgetown University on Thursday. He shared his views on globalization and why protectionism is not the answer to how we compete and win. Here are...
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3D Printing Gets Fashionable
Designer Danit Peleg describes how she revolutionized the fashion industry with 3D-printing technology. Today’s shopper expects seamlessness and efficiency — and new technologies are helping retailers...
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Mythbusters’ Adam Savage Discovers Truth Cooler Than Fiction In New Web...
After years of unraveling mysteries on “Mythbusters,” Adam Savage has become a master at separating tall tales from truth. Now he’s turning his sharp eye on GE facilities for the new web series “GE in...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
Engineers at MIT built wireless beacons that can track your health, their peers in Pennsylvania used gene editing to shut down the replication of an HIV virus in a living animal for the first time, and...
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Physicists Are ‘Breeding’ SchröDinger’s Cat, And It Could Reveal The Limits...
Physicists have figured out how to ‘breed’ Schrödinger’s cat – an object in a quantum superposition of two states with opposite properties – to produce enlarged versions that could one day reveal the...
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Automate Or Die? What US Manufacturers Can Learn From Henry Ford
American manufacturers are competing not only against each other but also against their global counterparts. When it comes to automation, manufacturers don’t have a choice but to invest in new...
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