Technology for Good – episode twenty four with GE CTO Jeremiah Stone

Welcome to episode twenty four of the Technology for Good hangout. In this week’s episode we had GE’s CTO for Digital Energy Jeremiah Stone as the guest on our show. We have recorded videos with Jeremiah previously, and they’ve always gone well, so we were reasonably confident this one would be good too, and it was. Given Jeremiah’s work in Digital Energy, not surprisingly we had several good conversations around Electricity 2.0 and smart grids as well as the regular Cloud, wearables and Internet of Things topics.

Here are the stories that we discussed in this week’s show:

Climate

• Polar Vortex in July: Record Cold Weather on the Way to U.S.

Renewables

• Timberland Cuts GHGs 50%, Surpasses Renewable Energy Goal Two Years Early
• At a big solar show, batteries take center stage
• Apple To Build Third Solar Farm Near North Carolina Data Center

Cloud

• With Google Offer, Cloud Storage Gets Closer to Free
• Amazon Goes After Box, Dropbox And Huddle, Launches Zocalo For Secure Enterprise Storage
• Google, Microsoft, IBM And Others Collaborate To Make Managing Docker Containers Easier

Apps

• Why Google’s Waze Is Trading User Data With Local Governments

Wearables

• Adidas wants to put a personal trainer on your wrist with the Fit Smart

Comms

• YouTube, following Netflix, is now publicly shaming internet providers for slow video
• There Are Now More Chargepoint Chargers Than McDonalds

Internet of Things

• Wink’s Connected Home Collection Arrives At Home Depot
• Manything’s iOS video monitoring app can now plug into Nest and Hue via IFTTT
• Samsung, Intel and Dell Launch ‘Internet Of Things’ Consortium
• Ubiquitous computing, the Internet of Things, and the discovery of sound

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