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Competition and the clock: how Google plans to deflect and delay a historic break-up threat

John Kwoka, professor at Northeastern University, says Google was “a complicated company that has an awful lot of operating levers to achieve what it wants, and so it needs to be matched with an equally wide set of complementary remedies, up through and including divestitures where necessary”.
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We hacked a robot vacuum — and could watch live through its camera

That’s why I needed help from Dennis Giese, a security researcher who has spent the best part of a decade pulling apart robot vacuums.
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N.C. Health Officials Issue Guidelines for Thousands of Potentially Flooded Private Wells

Kelsey Pieper, now an assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University, was one of the researchers.
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A rare challenge to the machine in our one-party state

Jeff Howe, a former contributing editor at Wired magazine, is an associate professor of journalism at Northeastern University.
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Full List of Food Recalls in September as Warnings Issued

Boston’s Northeastern University food policy expert Darin Detwiler said in a recent report by Northeastern Global News that the increase in food recalls was in part due to better reporting procedures, which he views as a positive change.
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How “Divorce him!” became the internet’s de facto relationship advice

Messy and mean-spirited internet comments sections are nothing new, of course: Joseph Reagle, an associate professor of communications at Northeastern University and author of Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web, uses the metaphor of the “rotten barrel.”

Bats’ weird wings inspired this drone

Now, researchers from Northeastern University are leaning on those unique elements and applying them to a fully autonomous flying drone called “Aerobat.”
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Biden administration should discourage, not reform, active shooter drills

From 2013 to May 2022, 77 K-12 students died in mass shootings, fewer than 10 per year, according to a report from Northeastern University.
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Donald Trump Gets Pennsylvania Boost as Democrats’ Voter Lead Drops

Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, said the numbers “suggest Republicans are investing more heavily in their ground game, getting more of their supporters to register to vote.”
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New York mayor appears in court as his lawyer challenges bribery case

Nikos Passas, a criminology and criminal justice professor at Northeastern University who specializes in public corruption, said the Snyder case “does create thorny problems for prosecutions of state and local officials” and makes it harder to prosecute cases in which alleged corruption is less direct.
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Biden Resists Using Presidential Power To Break Port Strike, Despite Industry Pressure

“Joe Biden became president in part to put more power in workers’ hands, not to take power away from them,” said Seth Harris, a professor at Northeastern University who previously advised Biden on labor issues.
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Why Donald Trump’s Plan For A Bitcoin Hoard May Not Sway U.S. Voters

Nick Beauchamp (associate professor of political science at Northeastern University) puts it this way: “The crypto ‘voting block’ is not voters but donors