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Leave It To Software: Here’s How Data Analytics Will Make Airlines Fly Smarter

July 13, 2016
When the Dubai-based carrier flydubai started looking for new ways to make decisions based on the terabytes of data coming from its planes and pass the savings on to customers, the carrier did something unusual: It sat down with engineers from GE Aviation, the company that makes jet engines for many of its planes. GE has recently invested $1 billion in software and started collecting and analyzing data from passenger jets, power plants, medical scanners and other industrial machines.
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Software

Elevator Maker Schindler Group And GE Digital Take The Industrial Internet To The Next Level

Dorothy Pomerantz
July 06, 2016
Swiss company Schindler Group may not be a household name, but the 142-year old company is one of the world’s biggest elevator, escalator and moving walkway companies. Its products haul millions of people every day, and soon it will also move gigabytes of data.
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VR

Yes, They're Playing Video Games, But It’s Work: How GE Tapped Gamers To Build Virtual Worlds Populated With Its Technology

July 04, 2016
After work on Friday, there are few things Claudio Cargnelli likes more than sitting with his kids on the sofa at his Toronto home playing “Clash of Clans,” a video game where barbarians and pyromaniac wizards battle raiders around the world.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
July 01, 2016

This week’s haul of news from the frontiers of science and innovation includes a piece about a nimble AI that shot down a seasoned Air Force pilot during a dog fight simulation, an article about a federal approval for the first human trial involving the DNA-editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 and a story about Israeli researchers who hacked a PC disconnected from the internet via its cooling fan.

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Minds-Machines

Tour De Force: This New Software Is Helping Digitize An Ancient Source Of Energy - Water

Tomas Kellner
July 01, 2016
The city of Briançon sits in a mountainous corner of France that has become a popular destination for cycling fans, who flock to the punishing Tour de France stages there. But it may soon become a required stop for the energy geeks too.
That’s because a dam in the hills above the city recently started testing new software that allows the operators to monitor power generation in a new, revolutionary way.

 
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Electrification Software Grid

So You Have A Wind Farm, Now What? This Software Will Bring More Renewable Power To People's Homes

June 28, 2016
You know it’s windy when water seemingly violates the law of gravity. That happened in Scotland last February when Storm Henry’s 100-miles-per-hour gale flipped a waterfall on the Isle of Mull on its head, made it cascade up a cliff and turned it into a YouTube sensation. No wonder wind power is big business in the Highlands.
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data

Everything Is Illuminated: Smart LEDs Are Lighting The Way To "Intelligent" Manufacturing

Dorothy Pomerantz
June 25, 2016
In manufacturing, a minute saved is money earned. Which is why building complex machines like gas turbines can be frustrating.
One of the trickiest parts of the process involves assembling the turbine’s compressor and wheels. Workers at GE Power’s plant in Greenville, South Carolina, stack the components together one at a time. Depending on the build, they heat some pieces, fit them onto the assembly and then cool them at a uniform rate, creating a tight fit that binds the pieces together.
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
June 24, 2016
It’s been an exciting week for brains and biology. Scientists in Oregon have used a combination of software and brain imaging to read the human mind, their colleagues in England developed a “bio-ink” that can be used to 3-D print living tissue, and a neuroscientist in Canada found a way to evoke and erase memories. Welcome to a brave new world. Read on!
 

 

Scientists Build A Mind-Reading Machine
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Innovation

5 Coolest Things On Earth This Week

Tomas Kellner
June 18, 2016
This week we learned about the discovery of a cosmic voyager as large as a football field that’s been keeping Earth company for at least 100 years, vast ancient cities hidden in the Cambodian jungle and Elon Musk’s desire to prevent an artificial superintelligence from turning him into its pet.
 

 

Astronomers Find Moon’s Tiny Buddy
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Minds-Machines

Digital Darwinism: The Industrial Internet Is Helping This GE Factory Evolve Better Products

Tomas Kellner
June 15, 2016
It took evolution 4 billion years to turn the first primitive cell into a software engineer. Now a group of highly evolved engineers working at a brand-new GE factory have combined computer code and the principles of natural selection to evolve and build better products in just days.
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