VR
That’s Powerful: GE Is Using Virtual Reality To Train Nuclear Engineers
Few places in the world are more secure than a nuclear power plant in France. Anyone who doesn’t work there full time, including maintenance engineers and field technicians, needs to get a security clearance and to complete rigorous safety training before they can step inside.
This arduous process creates a unique challenge: How do you train new maintenance crews when simply getting access is so difficult? One clever answer is virtual reality.
The Future of Work
Better Watch Out! This Italian 3D Printing Workshop Is Taking A Leaf From Saint Nicholas
Every December, pilgrims from all over the world descend on the southern Italian seaport city of Bari to celebrate Saint Nicholas and visit the Basilica di San Nicola. The church is the final resting place of the famous saint known by millions of children for, among other things, his magical workshop staffed with elves who can make pretty much anything.
gender gap
The Digital Gender Divide Is An Economic Problem For Everyone
Of the 7.1 billion people in the world, men make up eighteen percent and women sixteen percent of people who are online. That means there are 200 million fewer women online. And when women are offline, so is the global economy, writes Cheryl Miller Van Dyck, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Digital Leadership Institute.
The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed.
-William Gibson
Software
You Are Entering Another Dimension: New Software Allows Power Plant Engineers To Peer Into The Future
A typical power plant is a very large and very complicated network of machines for making electricity that must be kept in good order. It's not an easy task.
Software
Metalmorphoses: This Greek Digital Smelter Uses Software To Keep A River Of Molten Aluminum Flowing
Home to the Valley of the Muses, Greece’s Mount Helicon has been hailed by Ovid and Hesiod as the font of inspiration and poetry. But today, the plains between Helicon’s foothills and the cool blue waters of the Gulf of Corinth are yielding a more prosaic kind of material: aluminum. Instead of verse, raw red bauxite — a mixture of aluminum oxides — flows freshly mined from the hills to a large smelter operated by Aluminium of Greece (AoG) in the town of Agios Nikolaos.
3D Printing
Da Vinci Code 2.0: How 3D Printing And Digital Technologies Are Altering The Face Of Aircraft Engine Manufacturing In Italy
VR
Call Of Duty: This Woman's VR Simulation Makes Factories Work Better
Virtual reality became domesticated last year — at least in America — when the VR viewer Google Cardboard arrived for the first time with the Sunday New York Times. Today, you could use it to explore Pluto’s frigid heart or climb to the top of 1 World Trade Center in downtown Manhattan.
Energy
Tesla Coal: How Technology Is Helping Eastern European Coal-Fired Power Plants Run Cleaner
climate
That’s Hot: New Gas Could Eliminate This Super Strong Global Warming Culprit
