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Transforming Communities into Smarter Cities

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Transforming Communities into Smarter Cities

Government officials are constantly facing pressure to do more with less. With smaller budgets, it takes leaders with vision and energy to make strategic investments to improve how their cities function. That's where smarter cities come in.

One of my favorite anecdotes of how governments and communities can partner to make a smarter city is about using big data and analytics to combat a common urban problem: Potholes.

Testing the Water: RainDance is Stalking Cancer Drop by Drop

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Testing the Water: RainDance is Stalking Cancer Drop by Drop

RainDance Technologies is developing new "liquid biopsy" systems using tiny droplets separated by oil to analyze DNA. Researchers using the technology are evaluating its ability to identify whether the samples may contain cancer, viruses, pathogens and markers released by the immune system.

The new tools could allow doctors to test tumors and cancer cells with a simple needle prick. RainDance, which is based in Billerica, Mass, just received a new $16.5 million round of financing from a group of investors including GE's venture capital arm, GE Ventures.

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GE Aviation awarded $230m contract extension with Defence Materiel Organisation in support of the Royal Australian Air Force

March 03, 2014

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GE Capital Aviation Services Delivers Two Leased Boeing 737-800s to Aerolíneas Argentinas

March 03, 2014

SÃO PAULO, March 3, 2014 -- GE Capital Aviation Services Limited (GECAS), the commercial aircraft leasing and financing arm of GE, today announced delivery of two leased Boeing 737-800 aircraft to Aerolíneas Argentinas S.A. to expand and modernize the carrier's fleet.

The flag carrier of Argentina, Aerolíneas Argentinas operates a fleet of more than 67 aircraft to some 60 domestic and international destinations from its base in Buenos Aires.

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Gravity: Forgotten Space Escape Pod Could Bring Sandra Bullock Home Safe

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Gravity: Forgotten Space Escape Pod Could Bring Sandra Bullock Home Safe

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Anticipating Sandra Bullock’s problems in Alfonso Cuarón’s Oscar-winning feature gravity, a team of GE engineers proposed in the 1960s a design for a single-person space escape pod called Man Out of Space Easiest (later changed to Manned Orbital Operations Safety Equipment), or MOOSE.

When Oscar Was Just Another Name: Hollywood's History Starts With 50 Seconds of Horseplay

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When Oscar Was Just Another Name: Hollywood's History Starts With 50 Seconds of Horseplay

“Monkeyshines" is very likely the first film shot in the United States. Movie pioneers William Heise and William K. L. Dickson made it for Edison Labs in 1889 or 1890.

In Good Company: GE Makes Fortune's World's Most Admired List

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In Good Company: GE Makes Fortune's World's Most Admired List

Fortune magazine published this week "the definitive report card on corporate reputations" a.k.a. its World's Most Admired Companies list. GE jumped to No. 10, up one spot from last year and five places higher compared to 2012.

"As the world’s largest producer of commercial jet engines as well as the creator of the garbage disposal, GE’s expertise in manufacturing is sky high  ̶  and growing," the magazine said.

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