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Could Blockchain Technology Help The World’s Poorest?
No need for a bank: Just a smartphone and a blockchain. Here are four real examples, compiled by Nir Kshetri, a professor of management at The University of North Carolina-Greensboro, that show how...
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The Sword In The Virtual Stone: This Archeologist’s CT Eyes Can Peer 1,600...
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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Now Arriving: The World’s Oldest Trading Empire Is Getting New Trains
For most of recorded history, Egypt has been at the cutting edge of transportation technology. The country had a canal connecting the Nile and the Red Sea thousands of years before the Suez Canal was...
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Smart LEDs Are Helping GM Drive Down Its Utility Bill
When Al Hildreth, General Motors’ global energy manager, started looking for a way to save his company $1 billion, a light bulb went off in his head. Actually, make it an LED.LED fixtures are anywhere...
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Is Edge Computing The Leapfrog Moment For Machines?
How often do you hear about a “leapfrog” jump in technology? Every month? Every week?Before, a true leapfrog was treated with reverence and the term was used sparingly — like when developing countries...
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5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
A team in Canada resurrected an extinct pox virus, Harvard researchers encoded a “short movie” into living bacteria, and scientists in California found a way to regenerate a rat brain with electricity....
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How Do Fire Ants Form Amazing Towers And Rafts Without A Master Plan?
Researchers identified simple behavioral rules that allow these tiny creatures to collaboratively build elaborate structures, with no one in charge. Drop a clump of 5,000 fire ants in a pond of...
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5 Tech Trends Shaping The Future Of Fashion Manufacturing
At the start of her career, Suuchi Ramesh worked in predictive sciences and analytics to improve the efficiency of retailers’ supply chains, based on data. Today, she’s CEO of a rapid-turn apparel...
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A New Zealand Company Provides The Truth For Serum Used In Biopharmaceuticals
When most people think about vaccines, they don’t think about cows. But fetal bovine serum (FBS), a blood byproduct of the meat industry, is a crucial building block for vaccines. So scientists making...
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Smart Trains And Beyond: GE’s Jamie Miller To Talk Digital Disruption At Tech...
Deutsche Bahn Cargo trains crisscross Europe daily carrying everything from coal and steel to cars and cabinets. If a train gets stuck or needs to be taken offline, it can cause problems for the entire...
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Ask An AI Expert: 6 Questions For Prof. Matthew Taylor
With advancements in technology, industrial products have evolved. Manufacturing has changed, and jobs must adapt. GE is actively investing in developing the workforce of the future, but greater...
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Smart Specs: OK Glass, Fix This Jet Engine
Jet engine makers estimate they lose millions of dollars each year because nuts that seal fluid lines and hoses, called b-nuts, aren’t screwed on just right. If the b-nuts are deemed too loose or too...
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The Wingmen: GE Welders Band Together In New Career As Robot Programmers
Ice Man, Viper, Goose, Hollywood. Any fan of ‘80s movies will recognize the nicknames of the competitive pilots in the movie Top Gun. But those are also the names of four welding robots being...
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GE Reports Second Quarter Earnings: Delivering on Its Portfolio Strategy
Today, GE released its second-quarter results for 2017. The company reported a solid quarter with $0.28 earnings per share, despite a challenging and competitive global environment with economic...
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Four Reasons To Question The Hype Around Blockchain
Blockchain. Never have so many people sought so much from a technology understood by so few. There is nothing particularly novel about a divergence between the depth of knowledge enjoyed by computer...
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5 Coolest Things on Earth This Week
A team at MIT developed an AI system that looks at pictures of food and suggest recipes, a slithering robot from Stanford inspired by vines and fungi can squeeze into tight spaces, and spray-on sensors...
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Energy-Recycling Stairs Could Add A Spring To Your Step
“Take the stairs!” we’ve all been implored, to help maintain our health. But what if taking the stairs is painful, difficult or, worse, potentially dangerous?In most public buildings, we can opt for an...
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New One-Of-A-Kind Turboprop Engine Delivers Jet-Like Simplicity To Pilots
GE Aviation’s Paul Corkery became a leader of an engineering revolution three years ago when he and his team started building an aircraft engine from large sections that had been 3D printed as one...
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Three Reasons Why You Should Invest In Smart Cities Now
Imagine you’re heading to work on a cold winter day. You step outside your perfectly climate-controlled home and your self-driving car pulls up to the curb as scheduled. You enter the car from the...
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A Treat For The AvGeeks: An Inside Look At GE’s 3D-Printed Aircraft Engine
People have used 3D printers to produce a surprising range of items — fidget spinners, prosthetic limbs, even houses— but a new turboprop engine sets a new bar for what can be achieved through additive...
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