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Teaching GE to Think Like a Startup

Entrepreneur Eric Ries rose to prominence by teaching startups how to adopt the best practices of big, global companies. Today he's also teaching huge companies how to behave more like the upstarts.

Uber Says It Will Bring Its Flying Taxis to Los Angeles in 2020

In just over two years, Uber says it will let commuters soar over Los Angeles' snarled traffic in flying taxis.

EU Unveils Proposal to Cut Vehicles' Carbon-Dioxide Emissions

The European Union proposed last week a 30-percent cut in carbon-dioxide emissions from cars and vans in the decade through 2030, seeking to prod auto makers toward cleaner technologies led by electric vehicles and curb climate change.

How to Make the Most of Forecasting

Forecasting is a vital tool for many businesses, but is often poorly understood by stakeholders.

Alphabet's Autonomous Cars Ditch Backup Human Driver in Breakthrough Test

For almost a decade, self-driving cars have graced public roads - but always with a person behind the wheel. Now Waymo is yanking the driver.

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Baidu Aims for 'Android' of Robocar Tech With Open-Source Apollo Platform

Baidu President Ya-Qin Zhang has a mild-mannered style at odds with his bold goals for "Apollo," the fast-growing, open-source self-driving car platform the Chinese tech giant launched in July.

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Audi Recalls 5,000 Diesel Cars to Fix Emissions Control Software

Audi is recalling almost 5,000 cars in Europe for a software fix after discovering they emitted too much nitrogen oxide, the polluting gas that parent Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) concealed from U.S. regulators in its devastating 2015 "dieselgate" scandal.

Inside Saudi Aramco's Kingdom of Oil

From the window of our small plane flying low over the desert, Saudi Arabia's Empty Quarter looks as remote as the name suggests, with burnt-orange dunes stretching into infinity under the blinding sun. Not even the Bedouin nomads with their camels are visible, because there are too few of them amid the vast landscape. It's only when the plane bumps down on an empty runway at an outpost called Shaybah that it is clear that the world's biggest sand desert is not, in fact, empty.

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Chinese Scientists Create Cost-Saving, Genetically Modified Low-Fat Pigs

Here's something that may sound like a contradiction in terms: low-fat pigs. But that's exactly what Chinese scientists have created using new genetic engineering techniques.

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Daimler Steals Tesla's Thunder With Heavy-Duty Electric Truck

Daimler AG is jumping the gun on Tesla Inc. by showing off a battery-powered heavy-duty truck weeks before the California electric-carmaker's own planned unveiling, in a sign of the growing rivalry between the companies.

Tesla's Model 3 'Production Hell' Is Testing Elon Musk's Carmaking Model

When Elon Musk talks about the future of factory automation at Tesla, he envisions new breeds of robots and smart machines compressed in dense factories with little room for human operators, guided by self-learning software.

Procurement Leaders Argue: Is Supplier Consolidation the Best Policy?

The practice of supplier rationalisation in which spend is concentrated with fewer, larger suppliers has been called into question.

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Recycled Tagging Fasteners: Small Changes Make a Big Impact

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Enhancing High-Value Electronics Shipment Security with Tive's Real-Time Tracking

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