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cybersecurity

These Scientists Are Hacking The Immune System To Fight Hackers

Todd Alhart
December 02, 2016
Hackers have been in the news lately, with their targets ranging from Minecraft players to an aide to a U.S. presidential contender. But few attacks could have larger and longer-lasting implications than an attack on electricity—the lifeblood of the modern economy—and the infrastructure that distributes it to homes and businesses.
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History

Kurt’s Cradle: Kurt Vonnegut was GE’s PR Man Before Becoming a Bestselling Author

November 30, 2016

Before Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote the bestsellers "Slaughterhouse Five" and "Cat’s Cradle," he lived near Schenectady, New York, and worked as a GE publicist. According to Vonnegut’s biographer Charles J.

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Back To The Future: This GE Software Engineer Used Code To Bring New Muscle To His Ford Mustang

Kristin Kloberdanz
November 08, 2016
Grease monkeys have been tinkering with Ford Mustangs — the most iconic of the classic American muscle cars — ever since the first one rolled out in 1964. But a car enthusiast in Germany has taken tinkering to the next level. Hanns Proenen, the chief information security officer for GE in Europe, has hacked his Mustang using Predix, GE’s cloud-based platform for the Industrial Internet. He says his classic car is now a data-gathering machine that could rival an electric car.
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The Grid

High Voltage: Watch Out AC / DC Is Getting Its Groove Back

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 02, 2016
America’s largest machine — the power grid — has been pumping lifeblood electricity from power plants to our homes and businesses for more than a century. The vast network of wires, switches, transformers and other technology has gone through periodic upgrades, but the infrastructure is aging and increasingly prone to blackouts. Unfortunately, the stress on the network is starting to show at exactly the time when we need it to shoulder and move thousands of megawatts from new wind farms and solar installations popping up all over the country.
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Stem Cells

This Discovery Could Help Us Regenerate Body Parts One Day

November 01, 2016
Pluripotent stem cells hold an almost magical place in the human imagination. These inveterate transformers start out in the embryo as biological blank sheets but change in developing animals and grow into tissues that become the brain, bones, heart, liver and the rest of our bodies. In culture, they can divide endlessly and differentiate into any cell type of the body.
Scientists have long tried to crack their secrets, which could lead to the Holy Grail of medicine: regenerating aging, diseased or damaged body parts.
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Oil & Gas

GE And Baker Hughes To Form New Fullstream Digital-Industrial Service Company

Timothy Cheng
October 31, 2016
GE and Baker Hughes agreed to combine GE Oil & Gas and Baker Hughes to create a world-leading oil and gas technology and services provider. The new name of the company will be Baker Hughes, a GE Company.
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Energy

The Hybrid Approach: L.A. Will Use Batteries To Make Power More Efficient

Kristin Kloberdanz
October 23, 2016
Earlier this year, thousands of residents in the Porter Ranch neighborhood of Los Angeles had to evacuate their homes and schools after a natural gas leak — the worst on record in the United States. For over 10 weeks, a damaged well in Aliso Canyon oozed methane and ethane, leaving residents with nosebleeds, nausea and headaches.
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Earnings

GE Executes Well for Long-term Growth: Company Updates Earnings Outlook

Timothy Cheng
October 21, 2016
GE released third-quarter results today. Industrial operating plus GE Capital verticals earnings reached $0.32 per share, up 10 percent compared with the third quarter of last year.
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GE’s Vscan Solution Improving Maternal Care in the Philippines

October 07, 2016
According to the World Health Organisation, around 830 women[1] die daily due to preventable causes related to child birth, and each day almost 5,500[2] children die within a week of their birth. The burden of these deaths does not fall equally. The reality is that 99% of all maternal deaths occur in the developing world.
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STEM

Brilliant In Boston: Mobile Lab Will Teach Students How Synthetic Life Plays Out In The Real World

October 06, 2016
What’s it like working as a software game developer, and what exactly does a synthetic life designer do? Boston public high school students will be soon able to learn the answers to those questions and others through experience. That’s because a new mobile education lab will soon travel through Beantown, allowing kids to interact with computer-assisted design, 3-D printers, laser cutters and other tools and machines they won’t find at home and in their schools.
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