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Meet The Scottish Farm Girl At The Top Of The Oil Industry
Before Louise Goetz became one of the first women to work the floor of an oil and gas equipment factory, before she helped lead a major European workforce and before she sold oil field equipment to the...
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Supply And Demand: An Internet Of Things App Like This One Could Help Bring...
Hackathons, the whirlwind competitions that challenge developers to solve complex problems in a short period, are like the Olympics for computer programmers. Teams compete for prizes, professional...
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All Aboard: Henry Ford’s Assembly Line Fits Train Manufacturing To A T
In 1913, Henry Ford famously offered customers a choice of any color they wanted for their Model T — as long as they chose black. That’s because Japan black paint was the only color that dried fast...
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For These Wind Turbines, Batteries Are Included: Wind-Hydro Combo Will Give...
Ever tried riding a bicycle up a steep hill and ran out of strength? That’s when an electric bike with a built-in battery might have come in handy and carried you to the top. GE Renewable Energy is now...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
An AI took a crack at decoding the mysterious language of the medieval Voynich manuscript, Chinese scientists used 3D printers to grow new ears for kids suffering from a rare medical condition, and...
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Digital Medicine: GE And Roche Will Analyze Medical Data To Find Better...
A cancer diagnosis or a stay in the intensive care unit (ICU) often bring confusion, fear and questions about the best course of treatment. That’s why a group of doctors and scientists at GE Healthcare...
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Industrial Ledgers: How Blockchain Could Accelerate Digital Transformation
If you’ve read a business, financial, or computing magazine, or website, in the past 12 months there’s a high chance that their front pages, and homepages have been dominated by stories about bitcoin...
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Flying High: How Leasing Fueled The Takeoff Of The Airline Industry
Back in 1967, Allegheny Airlines was a small business with a big idea — connect dozens of American cities with regular flights.But to do that, Allegheny needed wings. It bought regional carriers like...
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Spielberg 101: Computing Pioneer Talks About GE’s First Digital Blockbuster
One day, when he was still barely a teenager, the film director Steven Spielberg came to visit his father, Arnold, at work. It was the late 1950s and the elder Spielberg was building computers for GE...
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The Digital Hospital: Mission-Control-Like Command Center At This Hospital Is...
In the 1960s, airports started using air traffic control technology that allowed them to swiftly transition from scheduling a few hundred flights a day to managing thousands. Now, many airports handle...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we learned about a facial recognition system for cows, a bacterium that consumes toxic metals and poops out gold without poisoning itself, and a live worm that lives inside a computer and can...
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Doing Things That Matter: Olympic Ads Show GE Technology At Work
Every day, we rely on a dizzying array of ingenious machines that keep our homes warm and lit, fly us from continent to continent, and, sometimes, keep us alive. Yet we give little thought to how they...
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Engine Czech: This University Partnership Is Set To Propel Turboprop...
GE has spent the last 100 years building GE Aviation into a leading force in the aerospace industry. Since it was founded in 1918, the business unit, which brought in $27 billion in revenue last year,...
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Of Patents And Tariffs: Here Are The Surprising Results Of GE’s New Global...
What is the state of innovation? GE recently asked some 2,000 business executives from around the world, and the results are in.What are some of the more surprising findings included in the 2018 GE...
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LED There Be Light: Walmart Is Sprucing Up Stores, Driving Down Bills With...
Last fall, a woman shopping at Walmart in Livonia, Michigan, approached the store manager with an unsolicited comment. “I don’t know what you did in here,” she said, “but suddenly I can read your food...
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Don’t You Want Me, Baby? This Brain Imaging Contest Can Show You the Love
How deep is your love? Neuroscientist Melina Uncapher devised a system in her lab that can supply an answer.In 2013, Uncapher and her friend the filmmaker Brent Hoff invited seven men and women ranging...
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Olympic Games Healthcare: This Software Helps Doctors Track Athletes’ Health...
Even before its launch in February, new software that keeps track of Olympic athletes’ healthcare started providing data that matters.In November, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) held a test...
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The 5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week
This week we saw a chimeric robot with a doglike body and a snakelike head break out of a Boston lab, learned about molecular machines that can be programmed to starve tumors of blood, and learned...
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Data Against Dehydration: This Wireless Sweat Patch Powered By Jet Engine...
Last December, several members of the U.S. Air Force volunteered for a sweaty mission. During extra workout sessions at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Ohio, the volunteers wore on their backs...
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Lights, Electricity, Action: When Ronald Reagan Hosted “General Electric...
In 2015, the National Geographic Channel launched a new television series called “Breakthrough,” focusing on scientific discovery. The series was developed by the channel and GE, and produced by Oscar...
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