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Turn, Turn, Turn! Block Island Wind Farm Construction Complete
America’s first offshore wind farm is ready to start making history. Construction on the Block Island Wind Farm, just three miles southeast of the popular summer spot, was completed last week with the...
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Do You Even Lift, Bro? Hardiman Was GE’s Muscular Take On The Human-Machine...
Decades before driverless car researchers struggled to create an effective human-machine interface, GE was wrestling with its own, lower-tech version of how to meld steel and flesh. It was called the...
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These Top 10 Emerging Technologies Will Change The World. But Let’s Proceed...
Yes, the 10 emerging technologies of this year do sound like terrifying “summer scare-flicks,” writes Andrew Maynard, who runs Arizona State University’s Risk Innovation Lab. While all of this year’s...
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This New GE Factory Is A Blueprint For The Future Of Manufacturing
Welland has been known for decades as the city where the rails meet the water. But the Canadian transportation hub, notable for a canal that links Lake Ontario and Lake Erie with a cluster of railways,...
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Can You Unring A One-Ton Bell? This Student’s Idea Could Make The Impossible...
When you or I go shopping for noise-cancelling headphones, we imagine ourselves listening to music in blissful quiet stripped of traffic noise and seatmate chatter. But Christopher Nguyen has something...
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What’s Holding Back VR?
Despite major publicity and significant corporate investments in virtual reality platforms, the prevalence of VR systems has a long way to go. Still, Christian Talmage, a VR consultant, explains why...
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From Assembly Line To Digital Thread: The Factory Of The Future Is Here, And...
Today, on National Manufacturing Day, we celebrate the evolution of manufacturing, its impact on our economy and on the everyday lives of our citizens. From the Industrial Revolution to the age of the...
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Tips From A ‘Mindful’ Brain To Help You Become More Productive
Debbie Jeremiah, manager of GE’s Mindful Leader Program at the company’s management facility in Crotonville, N.Y., has used brain science and “neuroleadership” training to optimize her creative energy...
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Engineering The Future: GE’s Goal To Bridge The STEM Gender Gap By 2020
GE today announced goals of having 20,000 women to fill STEM roles at GE by 2020 and obtaining 50:50 representation for all our technical entry-level programs. The program will significantly increase...
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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,...
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How Robots Could Help Chronically Ill Kids Attend School
Students with chronic illness often get only a few hours of education a week. Telepresence robots could let them participate fully in classroom and school activities, write Veronica Ahumada Newhart and...
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Scientists Need You to Solve This Chess Problem to Help Find the Key to Human...
What separates us from supercomputers. BEC CREW, Science Alert Consciousness is the most important quality of a human being, but scientists have struggled for millennia to explain it – where does it...
View ArticleThe Weekend Edition: Melding Mind and Machine: How Close are We?
Just as ancient Greeks fantasized about soaring flight, today’s imaginations dream of melding minds and machines as a remedy to the pesky problem of human mortality. Can the mind connect directly with...
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The Future Of Travel: New York To Hong Kong In 2050
Everyone knows that the future of transportation involves self-driving cars, and they’re coming to a ride-sharing service near you, possibly sooner than you think. But what other transportation...
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To Really Help US Workers, We Should Invest In Robots
America’s manufacturing heyday is gone, and so are millions of jobs, lost to modernization. Despite what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin might think, the National Bureau of Economic Research and...
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18 Science Facts We Didn’t Know At The Start Of 2017
We’ve learned so much already. 1. Lungs don’t just facilitate respiration – they also make blood. Mammalian lungs produce more than 10 million platelets (tiny blood cells) per hour, which equates to...
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From Assembly Line To Digital Thread: The Factory Of The Future Is Here, And...
Today, on National Manufacturing Day, we celebrate the evolution of manufacturing, its impact on our economy and on the everyday lives of our citizens. From the Industrial Revolution to the age of the...
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Tips From A ‘Mindful’ Brain To Help You Become More Productive
Debbie Jeremiah, manager of GE’s Mindful Leader Program at the company’s management facility in Crotonville, N.Y., has used brain science and “neuroleadership” training to optimize her creative energy...
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Engineering The Future: GE’s Goal To Bridge The STEM Gender Gap By 2020
GE today announced goals of having 20,000 women to fill STEM roles at GE by 2020 and obtaining 50:50 representation for all our technical entry-level programs. The program will significantly increase...
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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,...
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