Some of the most common workplace monitoring programs have shared names, email addresses and other personal worker data with hundreds of outside data brokers and technology companies without clearly disclosing the practice, according to an investigation by Vanderbilt University, Northeastern University and the University of California at Berkeley.

Samuel Muñoz, ⁠an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, said that when reservoirs run low, the canal authority must cut the number of ships it allows through ​to conserve water — a reduction that “creates shipping disruptions that ripple through the global economic system.”

Some of the most common workplace monitoring programs have shared names, email addresses and other personal worker data with hundreds of outside data brokers and technology companies without clearly disclosing the practice, according to an investigation by Vanderbilt University, Northeastern University and the University of California at Berkeley.

“The design here is for our students to become what we term ‘AI orchestrators’ rather than passive users of the technology,” Northeastern’s chancellor, Ken Henderson, said.

Natural disasters are rife with uncertainty, said Daniel Aldrich, a professor at Northeastern University who studies disasters and recoveries.

Trump’s approval ratings could drag down Republican candidates across the country in the midterm elections, Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.

LiveNOW’s Anna Marsick brings Dr. Darin Detwiler from Northeastern University into the conversation to discuss. 

The Trump administration’s request of SCOTUS flies in the face of a decades-old doctrine known as the Purcell principle, which demands that any significant election-related changes not be made close to an election, because it risks voter confusion and administrative chaos, as Donathan L. Brown, a civil rights scholar and associate professor at Northeastern University, […]

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, said the outcome in Florida shows voters are taking allegations against politicians seriously.

For hot foods, the safest are generally those that are freshly and thoroughly cooked and served immediately, such as “pizza slices coming directly from the oven,” added Dr. Darin Detwiler, a food safety expert and professor at Northeastern University.

Employers may be accommodating workers and resolving issues outside of court, said Wendy Parmet, co-director of Northeastern University’s Center for Health Policy and Law.

Costas Panagopoulos, professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek Markey is an “institution” in Massachusetts but that many voters do have reservations about his age. Markey will be hard to beat, but it is not impossible, he said.