It is becoming more common to control smart lights around the home or office with voice commands, by connecting those lights to devices using Amazon’s Alexa or other virtual assistants.… Read More
Microsoft announced Monday that Kate Johnson, currently an executive with GE, will join the Redmond tech giant as president and corporate vice president of the company’s U.S. division. The announcement… Read More
Amazon is aiming to put its Alexa virtual assistant pretty much anywhere. Next up: a high-tech table lamp. GE this morning unveiled a new LED table lamp with Alexa inside, as part… Read More
Microsoft and General Electric this morning said they will make GE’s Predix platform for the Internet of Things (IoT) available for industrial businesses on Microsoft’s Azure cloud service. It will… Read More
Microsoft is no longer an investor in Bellevue-based healthcare startup Caradigm, selling off its stake this month to General Electric. Caradigm was initially a 50-50 joint venture of Microsoft and… Read More
GE is giving an inside look at five of its facilities and most powerful machines this week — all shot entirely with drones. GE’s #DroneWeek will post the action every day… Read More
In the incredible evolution of 3D-printing capabilities, GE engineers have made a tiny jet engine that can go 33,000 rotations per minute. As they report, the “backpack-sized jet engine” —… Read More
Intellectual Ventures’s Global Good division has teamed up with General Electric to create a new test for malaria that’s designed to spot even the parasites that cause the disease, even… Read More
The new company spanning multiple floors of this Bellevue office tower is no ordinary startup. It’s called Caradigm — think “health care” and “paradigm” — and it’s a 50-50 joint… Read More
Microsoft and General Electric this morning confirmed that they’ve given the name “Caradigm” to their new health-technology joint venture, and announced the Microsoft and GE executives who will be making… Read More