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John Flannery: GE’s Long Digital Game
On June 26, GE announced a major change in how we run the company, focusing decision-making in the businesses and empowering our leaders with tools and responsibilities to drive growth and innovation —...
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Scientists are getting closer to bioengineering organs for transplants in humans, regenerating bone to treat injuries and birth defects, and using next-gen materials to heal skin wounds and prevent...
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30 Stores And Counting: How GE Solar Keeps Home Depot’s Solar Power Footprint...
Covering a large commercial rooftop with solar panels is not as simple as it may seem.Start with the art and science of power engineering and the idiosyncrasies of the power grid to which the solar...
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Workers Wanted: Wing Walkers And All, The World’s Largest Airshow Is The...
Every year at the end of July, acrobatic pilots turn the sky above Oshkosh, Wisconsin, into a special kind of canvas, their planes’ smoke flares painting it with giant loops, corkscrews and figure...
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Achtung, Baby: This Wireless Fetal Heart Rate Monitor Delivers
Giving birth is hard enough without getting trapped in your bed by a mess of wires and cables. Just ask labor and delivery nurse Brigitta Fifield, who spends a lot of time helping her patients get...
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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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Live Long And Prosper: Nerve Signals Could Lead To Non-Invasive Ways To...
In the original Star Trek series that aired in the 1960s, creator Gene Roddenberry posited a handheld medical device that, when passed in close proximity to a patient, provided the doctor with an...
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Airplanes are getting lighter (and higher), batteries are getting more sustainable, and aging is getting postponed — or might someday, at least. Physical improvement is at the heart of this week’s best...
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Smart Thinking: How One Doctor’s Invention Helped Uncover His Own Heart Defect
In 2008, Dr. Ernie Garcia was a healthy 60-year-old who knew the importance of a heart-healthy lifestyle. When he experienced a chest pain episode, his cardiologist insisted he had nothing to worry...
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A Lord Of The Wings: America’s Largest Air Force Plane Turns 50
Few planes inspire more awe than the Galaxy. A comparison to a flying whale seems apt — but a fast and efficient whale that can carry two battle tanks across the Pacific Ocean in a matter of hours and...
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Knowledge Is Power: It Takes More Than Software…
In the time it takes the average person to read this sentence, 36 petabytes of IoT data, (an amount roughly equivalent to 720 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with text) will be created. That...
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Selfies Against Hypertension? This Smartphone App Could Measure Blood...
Doctors tell many expectant mothers in their eighth month to keep an eye on their blood pressure — hypertension can be a sign of preeclampsia, a pregnancy complication. In addition to schlepping to...
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Mission Critical: GE’s New Digital Center In Atlanta Is Using Data From Power...
Justin Eggart and fellow engineers working inside GE Power’s Monitoring and Diagnostics Center in Atlanta were halfway through their shift a few months ago when they noticed something strange. The...
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Thinking Smaller: Microgrids And Big Data Can Bring Electricity To Rural Nigeria
Power grids don’t come cheap: It can cost as much as $300,000 a mile to string a set of high-voltage wires. This can be expensive even in the U.S., but in the developing world the price is often...
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Artificial intelligence can detect eye disease with the best of them (the best being trained doctors), a crucial protein could be leukemia’s Achilles’ heel, and disease treatment might be...
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Biotech Sandbox: New Swedish Center Helps Startups Develop The Treatments Of...
Since she was a child, Therése Kallur has been interested in how the mind works. Today she makes spare parts for it.“When I started studying psychology, I was deeply unsatisfied because I thought that...
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This Software Delivers: GE’s Port Optimizer Pilot Expands To Long Beach,...
Nearly one out of every five shipping container units — filled with furniture, electronics, clothing and other goods coming from or going to Asia — passes through the Port of Long Beach every year....
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Changing The Odds: A 3-Hour Treatment For Liver Cancer, No Radiation Required
When Georgeann Jansson was diagnosed with hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of primary liver cancer, she immediately met with an oncologist to determine the best course of action.The...
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Live Long And Prosper: Nerve Signals Could Lead To Non-Invasive Ways To...
In the original Star Trek series that aired in the 1960s, creator Gene Roddenberry posited a handheld medical device that, when passed in close proximity to a patient, provided the doctor with an...
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Scientists have figured out how to 3D print tiny objects from graphene, the world’s strongest material, and use to same stuff to make an eye implant that could reverse vision loss. They also found a...
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