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Brain

Strong Safety: Innovative Materials Could Reduce Football Brain Injuries

December 10, 2015
Making football safer may not only be about the equipment players wear; it could have just as much to do with the turf under their cleats. This systemic approach to improving safety in football was highlighted last week when GE, the National Football League and Under Armour announced the three final winners of Head Health Challenge II. In an open competition, the University of Washington, Viconic Sporting and the Army Research Laboratory bested four other finalists to find innovative approaches for preventing brain injury and tracking head impacts in real time.
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Industrial Internet

Business Insider: GE CEO Says Let’s End The Debate Over Whether We Are In A Tech Bubble

Tomas Kellner
December 09, 2015
In his piece in Business Insider, Jeff Immelt, GE chairman and CEO, called for an end to the debate over whether we were in a tech bubble. “I believe that this is shortsighted and rooted in the belief that at some point the tech industry must undergo the same unfortunate ‘burst’ as in 2000,” Immelt wrote.
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STEM

Zowie! Wattpad And GE Give Old Science Comics a New Life

Tomas Kellner
November 17, 2015

Comic books were as popular with kids and teens in the 1950s as Instagram, Snapchat and social media are today. Although many parents couldn’t stand them, the team inside GE’s communications department was intrigued. They saw a powerful tool for engaging teenagers and getting them hooked on science.

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Dubai Air Show

Under the Tuscan Sun: The World’s Largest Jet Engine Was Born in Michelangelo’s Backyard

Tomas Kellner
November 09, 2015
The seaside Tuscan town of Massa defies the Italian stereotype of vineyards and sun-soaked hilltops. True, Michelangelo got stone for David from nearby marble quarries, but today Massa is best known for massive machines and heavy-duty engineering. It’s the birthplace of several industrial goliaths, including GE’s latest jet engine, the GE9X.
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Dubai Air Show

The World’s Largest Passenger Plane and Other Highlights from Day One at Dubai Air Show

Tomas Kellner
November 08, 2015
The 2015 Dubai Air Show opened for business on Sunday. Cities in the United Arab Emirates like Dubai and Abu Dhabi have become major aviation hubs over the last two decades and carriers based in the Middle East such as Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways have become powerful global players. As a result, the Dubai Air Show, which is held every two years at the Al Makhtoum International Airport located in a desert just outside the city, has become a major industry trade event on par with the Paris and Farnborough airshows.
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Energy

Power Play: How GE and Alstom Can Shore Up Brazil’s Giant Power Grid

November 06, 2015
When it comes to electricity, Brazil deals with unique challenges. The fifth largest nation in the world has some of the planet’s longest electricity transmission lines, and its customers face some of the highest electricity bills anywhere. Improving the reliability and efficiency of Brazil’s power stations — and also of the grid, which stretches across vast sections of the country — is a critical matter.
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Energy

The French Connection: Why GE and EDF Click

November 05, 2015
French energy giant EDF is a well-known nuclear-power-generation company, but now it wants to diversify its energy mix by expanding into renewable energy. Antoine Cahuzac, the CEO of EDF Énergies Nouvelles, the company’s renewables division, believes the newly merged GE and Alstom Energy, with its global footprint, will be the perfect partner. “Both GE and Alstom are very important for us,” Cahuzac says. “They have globally recognized technological expertise in turbines ... and their equipment is state-of-the-art.”
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Big Data

Alberto Matucci: Adopting a Big Data Mindset for the Oil & Gas Sector

Alberto Matucci Wellstream Global Leader
November 04, 2015

In the era of Big Data, project managers need a new skillset and mindset.

 

Before 1998, the word terabyte didn’t exist. In 2007, the first 1 terabyte hard drive was brought to market. By 2020, we expect GE machines to produce 10 to the 6 terabytes per day of information — 1 million times the size of that hard disk. At GE Oil & Gas, we have unprecedented access to information about our technology and networks, from cradle to grave.
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Alstom

New Power Generation: GE-Alstom Energy Deal Redefines Power Industry in Coming Decades

Tomas Kellner
November 02, 2015
GE completed its acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid business today. The transaction, GE’s largest industrial deal ever, unites two storied businesses with roots stretching to the very dawn of the power industry more than a century ago and to its pioneering founders Thomas Edison and Elihu Thomson.
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Power in Numbers: How The Industrial Internet is Helping Solve Pakistan’s Electricity Shortage

November 02, 2015
Shahid Abdullah has been in business long enough to spot a good opportunity. Abdullah is the president of the Sapphire Group, one of Pakistan’s largest textile companies with 16,000 employees, $800 million in annual revenues, and a global base of customers. But when his country started running out of electricity a decade ago, he switched gears and built a large power plant in Muridke, just north of Pakistan’s second largest city Lahore. “Moving into power generation was a step that made sense,” he says.
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