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U.S. News & World Report
5 Tips for College Students Using Facebook for the Job Search
Facebook takes many forms: it’s a social network, a photo album, and a game platform, among other things. But with the recent announcement of a partnership with agencies including the U.S. Department of Labor, Facebook may soon become another entity to its users: a job search site.
Musi Won Over Millions. Is the Free Music Streaming App Too Good to Be True?
Building a booming business in streaming music without taking on any of the legwork of striking deals with labels and distributors. That causes David Herlihy, a copyright lawyer and music industry professor at Northeastern University, to describe Musi as a “bottom feeder.”
It’s time to require vaccinations for domestic flights
“We already have to show ID to get onto the plane,” said Sam Scarpino, managing director at the Rockefeller Foundation and an assistant professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University. “Showing a vaccination card can be part of that process. We have to take our shoes off. We have to go through metal […]
Marketplace
Change in FCC leadership may renew net neutrality battle
However, David Choffnes, a professor at Northeastern University who studies network performance, said just because it hasn’t happened yet doesn’t mean it won’t in the future. “We shouldn’t decide whether net neutrality or the lack of it has been successful based on a few years,” Choffnes said. “Historically, when we see opportunities for an unlevel […]
State, local experts push back on university’s bleaker coronavirus forecast
Samuel Scarpino, a professor in the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, also takes issue with the University of Washington model, which he said has some built-in weaknesses.
Coronavirus Could Overwhelm U.S. Without Urgent Action, Estimates Say
“You have to think of this as an insurance for the future: The earlier you do it, the greater effect you have on the virus,” said Alessandro Vespignani, director of the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University, who said the estimates were in line with his own projections. “It’s better to take excessive precautions than […]
Donald Trump is missing an essential fact about the debates
Will Donald Trump try to weasel out of the presidential debates? On the one hand, he has verbally committed to three joint appearances with Hillary Clinton this fall. On the other, he seeks to renegotiate the terms under which the matches will take place. At some point, and soon, Trump will have to decide which […]
Boing Boing
Researchers find over 100 spying Tor nodes that attempt to compromise darknet sites
When it comes to accessing public websites, Tor has an intrinsic security problem: though the nodes between your computer and the public internet are unable to see where the traffic is coming from or going to, the final hop in the network (known as an exit node) gets to know what webserver you are connecting […]
The Christian Science Monitor
Meet David Dworken, the teenager who hacked the Pentagon
Within 13 minutes of urging hackers to take their best shot at the Pentagon’s public websites, the US government’s first-ever bug bounty program had its first submission. Just six hours later, hackers had already uncovered nearly 200 vulnerabilities in the Department of Defense’s networks. Already a staple for companies such as Google and Facebook, the […]
CityLab
Mapping how stressful streets can limit cycling
Just north of D.C., transportation planners in Montgomery County, Maryland,are taking a systematic approach to breaking this vicious cycle. With a newBicycle Stress Map, county planners have quantified and mapped the “traffic stress level” of the county’s bike network, assigning a numeric value and corresponding color to every street and bike trail. Based on methodology […]
Yahoo!
A new era in women’s hockey
After graduating with a degree in broadcast journalism from Metropolitan State University in St. Paul, Minn., in 2010, Dani Rylan began studying for a master’s in sports leadership at Northeastern University. While there, she skated on the Huskies hockey team that won the 2012 Beanpot Tournament. Rylan, whose father worked in marketing for the Tampa […]
How Facebook and Google’s algorithms are affecting our political viewpoints
Plenty of users take what they read online at face value, which some social experiments have proven. The average user often doesn’t check facts or consider whether the source is credible. “You look at a Wikipedia article and assume that it all must be true,” said Christo Wilson, a computer science professor at Northeastern University […]