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Wind, Solar and Other Renewables Added 40 Percent of All New U.S. Power Capacity Last Year. Here’s What Greased the Wheels

April 24, 2014
Last spring, the global renewable energy company Invenergy announced that it would install the first three “intelligent” wind turbines equipped with storage batteries and connected to the Industrial Internet at the Goldthwaite wind farm in Central Texas.
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The Heart of the Machine: A Look under the Hood of GE’s Industrial Business

Achin Kumar
April 16, 2014
A new generation of jet engines is giving a $144 billion boost to GE’s industrial performance. The engines and services agreements added to the company’s record $245 billion backlog at the end of 2014’s first quarter, whose results GE announced this morning.
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Don’t Wait Until Dark: Engineers are Using the Industrial Internet to Keep Your Lights On

April 10, 2014
When a massive heat wave hit Buenos Aires last December, overworked ACs triggered weeks of blackouts that rolled over the metropolis of 2.8 million. The heat left many residents in the dark – literally and figuratively. People had little visibility on which neighborhoods would be affected and for how long. “The uncertainty and the lack of information were almost as depressing as the blackouts,” Celeste Acosta, a local community manager, told Smart Planet.
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New Order in Babel: Industrial Internet Consortium Will Make Machines and People Talk to Each Other

March 27, 2014

The Internet is no longer just about email, ecommerce or Twitter. “We are at an inflection point,” says Joe Salvo, manager of Complex Systems Engineering Laboratory at GE Global Research. “The next wave of productivity will connect brilliant machines and people.”

But before that happens, they must find a common language. “It’s still like the Tower of Babel,” Salvo says. “We need to bring them together in powerful new networks.”

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Service Economy: The Third Industrial Revolution Will Turn Customers into Designers

March 05, 2014

The first Industrial Revolution was about machines, the second about technology, and the third will take place inside the “Brilliant Factory,” says Christine Furstoss, global technology director at GE Global Research.

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Machine Code: Big Data Lands GE on MIT Review’s Smart List

February 19, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology has educated some of the sharpest engineering minds and its magazine, MIT Technology Review, reports on the latest advances from the intersection of innovation, technology and business. The Review’s editors released on Monday its annual global list of the 50 smartest companies “that have displayed impressive innovations in the past year.” Their list includes GE for the third time in a row.

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Power Couple: The Wind and the Cloud Make it Rain

February 14, 2014
Thomas Edison and Charles F. Brush were born just two years and 70 miles apart in small Ohio towns strung along the Lake Erie shore. They both started out as backyard inventors, launched successful electricity companies that later formed the foundation of GE, and grew old as wealthy men. But while Edison’s ingenuity has never left the public imagination, Brush’s genius is only now starting to shine.
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Out of This World: Ladytron’s Reuben Wu Listens to Brilliant Machines

February 05, 2014
Liverpool musician and visual artist Reuben Wu is best known by millions of his global fans as the keyboardist in the pioneering electronic pop group Ladytron and an accomplished photographer. Last year, GE and the railroad company CSX gave Wu a chance to combine both of his passions.
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Curing By Numbers: Taking Cloud Computing to a New Level

October 14, 2013
American healthcare has by far the most expensive system in the world, but few would argue that it’s also the most efficient. A recent study published in the Journal of American Medical Association found that almost 40 percent of patients are misdiagnosed in primary care1.
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A Ticket to Profit: New Cloud Tech Could Make Airlines Richer and Pilots Wiser

October 10, 2013

No barrier to running a profitable airline looms larger than the cost of jet fuel. U.S. airlines spend more than a third of their operating budgets on fuel, or $50 billion in 2012.

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