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...
View ArticleScientists 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleTo 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...
View Article18 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...
View ArticleAsk An AI Expert: 6 Questions For Prof. Matthew Taylor
With advancements in technology, industrial products have evolved. Manufacturing has changed, and jobs must adapt. GE is actively investing in developing the workforce of the future, but greater...
View ArticleLeadership In Turbulent Times
We live in a world where the only constant is change. Eight years ago, the financial crisis of 2008 shook the world. Then came September 11. More recently, aviation disasters, terror attacks, economic...
View ArticleHere’s How to Stand Out From Your Colleagues
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”― Mahatma Gandhi Recently GE launched their fifth instalment of the Innovation Barometer. The barometer looks at the...
View ArticleInspiring Change through Personal Growth: Encouraging Economic Empowerment...
Women of today are leading the community and reshaping the world we live in. We are seeing many challenging the status quo for gender equality and inspiring positive change in society – to think and...
View ArticleLife after graduation: Are you workforce ready?
After spending about 15 years studying, you are finally ready to enter the working world. Only for potential employers to tell you that you are not ready yet. You are not alone. According to Dr...
View ArticleManjung 4: Powering Malaysia With Clean Coal Technology
Amidst rapid development, Southeast Asia is fast positioning itself at the forefront of the energy scene. In tandem, the region’s rising demand for energy continues to boost prospects within the power...
View ArticleQ&A with Jennifer Hartsock, VP and CIO of Baker Hughes, a GE Company
On third of July, GE and Baker Hughes announced the completion of the ambitious merger of GE Oil and Gas with Baker Hughes, to form Baker Hughes, a GE Company (BHGE). Vice President and Chief...
View ArticleWhy Low-Energy Solutions Are Needed To Power The IoT Revolution
How prepared are we for the next anticipated computing transformation – the Internet of Things (IoT) revolution? The evolution of computing technology has long been predicated by ‘Moore’s Law’, a...
View ArticleWe’re Living Longer In ASEAN – Data Shows Improving Health & Longevity In The...
We live on a planet of over 7.6 billion people, and the global population is growing by roughly 9,500 people every hour. Can many of today’s newly born expect to live longer than their predecessors? To...
View ArticleFriends In High Places: The First American Jet Engine Was Born Inside a Power...
For most people, Thomas Edison is the man who came up with the first practical light bulb. But Edison was also an inveterate entrepreneur who parlayed his patents into new businesses. The light bulb,...
View ArticleGreen-Powered Tuk Tuks Symbolize Thailand’s New Energy Future
A tuk tuk ride through Bangkok’s busy sois (streets) is one of the big attractions for the 32 million tourists who flock to Thailand’s capital every year and it’s a must do for my family when we visit....
View ArticleTrains on track to boost Australia’s competitive exports
The Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) is on a mission to make rail the transport mode of choice in Australia. With billions of dollars worth of recent infrastructure upgrades in place, it is now...
View ArticleIndustrial Ledgers: How Blockchain Could Accelerate Digital Transformation
If you’ve read a business, financial, or computing magazine, or website, in the past 12 months there’s a high chance that their front pages, and homepages have been dominated by stories about bitcoin...
View ArticleHow Malaysia’s Palm Oil Producers Are Enhancing Savings and Sustainability
Since the first commercial cultivation of palm oil in Malaysia in 1917, the local industry has grown from to become second biggest producer of palm oil in the world today. Building on this success,...
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