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Renewables

Cloudy With A Chance Of Electrons: This Scientist Can Forecast Renewable Electricity

Todd Alhart
February 29, 2016
A group of physicists that included a Nobel laureate and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.’s brother spent the 1940s working in GE labs to figure out how to control the weather. After a promising start – they created snowfall over Schenectady, N.Y. – the project eventually fizzled.
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Innovation

GE Makes Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies List

Tomas Kellner
February 17, 2016
Fast Company included GE in its annual list of the most innovative companies. GE is the top-ranked industrial company on the list, which includes many digital darlings like BuzzFeed (ranked at the very top), Uber and Alphabet.
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General Relativity

Physics Rocks! Gravity Waves Vindicate Einstein's Theory

Tomas Kellner
February 12, 2016
Scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) eavesdropping on two colliding black holes half a universe away heard enough to confirm the existence of gravitational waves. These ripples in spacetime were predicted by Albert Einstein in 1915, but never previously observed.
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Extreme Machines

Hello, Is Anybody Out There? Scientists Make The Berlin Wall Talk

Tomas Kellner
February 11, 2016
Giving snowballs a chance in the hell of a steel foundry, catching lightning in a bottle and making a wall talk: Thomas Edison did none of these seemingly impossible things. But then, he never had the opportunity.
This year, GE is celebrating Edison’s birthday, which President Reagan proclaimed as National Inventors Day, by taking on the impossible challenges of lore. On Feb. 11, the company is showing that these feats are “unimpossible.”
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best of 2015

2015 In Review: GE’s Digital Industrial Revolution

Tomas Kellner
Timothy Cheng
December 30, 2015
GE has been around for more than a century, but few years in its history have been as important for the future of the company as the one that’s just ending. GE started transforming itself into the world’s largest digital industrial company by selling GE Capital assets valued at more than $100 billion.
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Thomas Edison

A Toy Gone Wrong: Edison's Monster Doll Was One Gift People Were Happy to Return

December 26, 2015
Not everything Thomas Edison touched became raging success. His “monster doll” turned out to be an outright dud.
In 1877, Edison made the first recording device that could play back sound, and from there it was just a short leap of imagination to the “talking doll.” The doll, which held inside its tin body a miniature phonograph, gave owners the option to listen to popular nursery rhymes. Unfortunately, the recordings also produced copious amounts of spooky crackling and hissing sounds. Even Edison called the dolls “little monsters.”
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Robotics

Buddy Bots: These Robots Will Free Us From Dull, Dirty and Dangerous Labor

December 09, 2015
He’s a coworker unlike any other — not afraid to wade into dangerous situations, take on boring tasks for hours on end and answer obscure maintenance questions you may have. “He” is really an it, a robot called the Guardian. It's part of a system of airborne, sea-and-land-based robots GE is developing to autonomously check locomotives and other industrial assets for damage, unusually high temperatures and other abnormalities. They are trained to raise the red flag when they see something amiss.
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artificial-intelligence

Child’s Play: Machines Learning Like Kids Will Usher In The Next Industrial Revolution

December 07, 2015
If you ask Hollywood, the world teeming with robots and artificial intelligence is a no-brainer. Movies like “The Terminator,” “WALL-E” and “Blade Runner” have all cast intelligent automata as the wings upon which the future — mostly dystopian — swoops in. In fact, some very big names in science and engineering have recently joined voices in cautioning against unchecked intelligence development. Tesla’s Elon Musk and theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking have both predicted catastrophe should we make dumb choices when building smart machines.
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Medical Imaging

See the Heart in 7 Dimensions: This Team of Researchers Attacks World’s Biggest Killer with Software

Drew Field
December 03, 2015
By the time you’re done reading this story, heart disease will have killed nearly 40 people in Europe. The picture elsewhere isn’t much different. The World Health Organization reported earlier this year that more people die from cardiovascular disease than from any other cause.
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Breakthrough

Like Google Maps For Illness: This Researcher is Using New Tricks to Crack The Secrets Of Cancer

November 25, 2015
When Fiona Ginty was an 11-year-old schoolgirl entering Salerno Secondary School in Salthill, Galway, Ireland, she had to make a tough choice. Many other girls in her class were studying things like cooking and budgeting in home economics. But Ginty’s father encouraged her to take a different road. “My father said, ‘You are doing science!’” Ginty recalls. She happily took his advice.
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