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What voice assistants like Alexa know about you – and how they use it

“I don’t know that consumers have the intuition that when you’re talking out loud, that also could potentially be used to profile you and then target you with ads,” says David Choffnes at Northeastern University in Massachusetts.
TechTarget

OpenAI restructure move unsurprising, but raises concerns

A complicated structure The restructuring is not surprising because the current setup of OpenAI is so convoluted, said Northeastern University AI adviser Michael Bennett.
Maine Public Radio

A new tech startup incubator puts climate center stage

This week Northeastern University’s Roux Institute launched its new ClimateTech Incubator at the Portland Campus.
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Haitians in America vs. racist narratives, again

Op-ed by Régine Michelle Jean-Charles, a dean’s professor of culture and social justice and director of Africana studies at Northeastern University.
Rolling Stone

These Moms Smoked Weed Legally. Then Their Kids Were Taken Away

Alexander Stein, a staff attorney for the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University in Boston and a former public defender in Chicago, has seen similar strategies used against his clients. And to Stein, these cases illustrate a broader pattern: child welfare agencies’ tendency to criminalize poverty.
Chicago Tribune

Professors: How the Electoral College concentrates candidate attention and why it matters

Op-ed co-written by Costas Panagopoulos, professor at Northeastern University, and co-author of the recently published book “Battleground: Electoral College Strategies, Execution, and Impact in the Modern Era.”
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The First Lyme Disease Vaccine Failed. It’s Time to Try Again.

Constantin Takacs, a biologist at Northeastern University, is looking for answers in way the bacteria behave in different animals — including in ticks, which have been around since the time of the dinosaurs, and in the wild mice that have come to some sort of immune truce with it, the way some bats have with […]
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Could exploding device attacks like those in Lebanon happen here?

Josep Miquel Jornet, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University, added that pagers and walkie-talkies have plenty of unused space inside and offer easy access to the chips that control them. That makes it relatively simple to install control circuitry and an explosive.
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IDF ops in Beirut bring closure for some; Hezbollah terrorists who killed Americans now dead

Max Abrahms, a leading expert on counter-terrorism and a tenured professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Fox News Digital that, “Targeted killings have been a cornerstone of U.S. counterterrorism since the 9/11 attacks. And yet, Israel killing Hezbollah terrorists with American blood on their hands has been rebuked by Democrat leaders.”
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Birmingham, Alabama, leaders plead for information on mass shooting and announce reward money

Three of the nation’s 31 mass killings this year occurred in Birmingham, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. 
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Israel, How It Tries to Discredit the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees on Google

“ I suspect that Israel is paying a significant amount of money to have these ads appear consistently ,” says Christo Wilson, a computer scientist at Northeastern University and a co-author of the study. Since it seems unlikely that Google would sacrifice any of its profits by intervening in the matter, Wilson suggests that organizations involved in this type […]
News Nation

Americans have lost trust in US physicians, hospitals since 2020: Study | Morning in America

According to a Northeastern University study, Americans’ trust in the U.S. health care system has decreased from 71.5% to 40.1%. Dr. Marty Makary discusses how the healthcare system can work to regain Americans’ trust.