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Deaf-world
For adults who lose their hearing, deafness is an obvious disability, a physical problem that impairs their ability to communicate with family, friends, and the rest of the hearing world. But that is not how the hereditary deaf in this country understand not being able to hear: Deafness is, instead, a key to their identity […]
Time to Panic About the Federal Debt Limit
Is anyone else getting as nervous as I am about this debt-ceiling debate? Don’t get me wrong; my view has long been that we would endure some stomach-churning days on the way to a deal. Ultimately, though, I believed that the adults in both parties would prevail and lift the debt ceiling sufficiently to get […]
Business Insider
The DOJ wants Google to sell its Chrome browser. Here are the winners and losers if that happens.
Separating Chrome from Google and preventing deals for default search placement “would put Google Search into competition with other paths for advertisers to reach potential customers,” John Kwoka, a professor of economics at Northeastern University, said.
Time For Business Leaders To Step Up Their Own AI Training
Immerse they must, to succeed in helping their organizations realize the possibilities AI offers, while navigating through the pitfalls. That’s the word from David De Cremer, business school dean at Northeastern University, who urges business and technology leaders to overcome any nervousness and step up and learn the ways and means of AI.
With legalized sports betting, could society be the big loser?
“We are dealing with a massive and growing public health crisis involving a known, addictive product,” said Paul Tonko, who was accompanied by members of Northeastern University’s Public Health Advocacy Institute as he announced plans to introduce legislation that would significantly limit the way sports betting companies can market to and interact with customers.
Where are the women in tech and AI?
Brodley — who would go on to become dean of Northeastern’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences and founding executive director of the Center for Inclusive Computing — made about $18,000 at her first job, a salary that equates to just under $49,000 in today’s dollars.
Gates Foundation will provide $120 million to ensure generic production of Merck’s Covid-19 pill
This suggests Merck will profit handsomely from sales to wealthy nations, but its licensing deals will not ensure sufficient access, according to Brook Baker, a Northeastern University professor who specializes in access to medicines and intellectual property and a senior policy analyst for Health GAP. “There are three positives here: more efficient manufacturing that can lead […]
Rich nations dip into COVAX supply while poor wait for shots
Brook Baker, a Northeastern University law professor who specializes in access to medicines, said it was unconscionable that rich countries would dip into COVAX vaccine supplies when more than 90 developing countries had virtually no access. COVAX’s biggest supplier, the Serum Institute of India, stopped sharing vaccines in April to deal with a surge of […]
Does the AstraZeneca Vaccine Also Stop Covid Transmission?
A model built by Sam Scarpino, director of the Emergent Epidemics Lab at Northeastern University, suggested that a switch back to the old formulation would lead to a significant drop in deaths and illnesses. Given the speed and severity of the Covid-19 pandemic, the importance of this effect could be even greater. “Especially in a […]
DEA AGENTS WARN MEXICAN CARTEL PILLS LOOK ‘EXACTLY’ LIKE REAL PRESCRIPTIONS AND TARGET U.S. CHILDREN
The DEA would be better off legalizing fentanyl testing strips and getting behind overdose prevention sites, thereby reducing the harm of drug use, according to Jeremiah Goulka, a researcher and senior fellow at the Health in Justice Action Lab at the Northeastern University School of Law.
Media should spend less time humanizing shooters with unnecessary details
Since the beginning of 2018, according to the AP/USA Today/Northeastern University Mass Murder Database,the nation has witnessed 40 mass shootings, nearly half in public places, each claiming the lives of four or more victims — I emphasize the word “deadly” to distinguish these extreme and highly visible crimes from the Gun Violence Archive’s one-a-day variety of mass shootings, of which only 7% […]
Industry Week
Driverless Cars? After Deadly Accidents, Most Americans Would Rather Take the Bus
The support for self-driving cars is down a bit from other surveys over the past year. For example, Northeastern University/Gallup undertook a mail survey of 3,297 U.S. adults from September 15 to October 10, 2017, and found 25% were likely to ride in a self-driving car and 54% were unlikely. In January 2018, Reuters/Ipsos completed […]