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Bird Flu Is Spreading. Here’s Everything You Should Know Right Now

The odds are low (particularly if you’re buying pasteurized eggs in a store), but there are plenty of other delicious ways to consume eggs, so maybe don’t take the small risk, Darin Detwiler, PhD, a food safety expert and associate teaching professor of food policy at Northeastern University, tells SELF.
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How Much Worse Would a Bird-Flu Pandemic Be?

Certainly, compared with the 1918 pandemic, or even those in the 1950s and ’60s, modern medicine was better equipped to test for and treat flu; although vaccine uptake has never been perfect, the availability of any shots increased protection overall, Sam Scarpino, an infectious-disease modeler and the director of AI and life sciences at Northeastern University, told […]
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How Alarming Are Food Recalls? What We Know

“Not all recalls result in adverse effects or illness in consumers,” Darin Detwiler, a professor at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies and expert on food-safety, told Newsweek over email. “The purpose of a recall is to proactively remove potentially harmful products from the market to prevent such incidents.”

Susan Thompson’s complex and colorful quilts

Susan Thompson has boxes of fabric at her studio space at the African American Master Artists in Residency Program at Northeastern University, where she’s been for around 20 years. 
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Tech News Briefing: A Bug in Apple’s Parental Controls Created an X-Rated Loophole

Lisa Feldman Barrett, a university distinguished professor of psychology at Northeastern University, joins the WSJ’s Tech News Briefing to discuss emotion AI systems and how they work.
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OpenAI Offers a Peek Inside the Guts of ChatGPT

David Bau, a professor at Northeastern University who works on AI explainability, is part of a US government-funded effort called the National Deep Inference Fabric, which will make cloud computing resources available to academic researchers so that they too can probe especially powerful AI models. 
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After Jan. 6, Twitter banned 70,000 right-wing accounts. Lies plummeted.

While suspending Trump may have reduced misinformation by itself, the study’s findings hold up even if you remove his account from the equation, said co-author David Lazer, professor of political science and computer and information science at Northeastern University.
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20 years ago Rolling Stone promised subscribers a ‘lifetime’ print magazine for just $99—now they’re canceling and readers are ‘enraged’

The magazine’s ownership changed in 2017, and without a clause that requires future owners to abide by past terms the lifetime subscribers bought into, “the new owner is probably not bound by the lifetime subscription deal, hence, no breach,” Alexandra Roberts, a professor of media and law at Northeastern University School of Law, told Slate. 
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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.
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What we do — and don’t — know about how misinformation spreads online

The role of social-media platforms in abetting the spread of misinformation is shown in a research article by David Lazer, a political and computer scientist at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, and his colleagues. 
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More Than 150 People Sickened in Salmonella Outbreak Possibly Linked to Cucumbers

In this specific instance, the FDA didn’t share how the cucumbers became contaminated with Salmonella. But the bacteria can get into vegetables through irrigation water, along with many other points in the food growing and processing chain, Darin Detwiler, PhD, author and associate teaching professor of food policy at Northeastern University, told Health.   
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How internet addiction may affect your teen’s brain, according to a new study

The functional connectivity patterns in participants’ brains are, in fact, in line with those observed in people with substance addictions, said Dr. Caglar Yildirim, an associate teaching professor of computer science at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University in Boston.