“This is an opportunity for somebody to come in and try to do some independent news project, whether it be a for-profit or a nonprofit,” Dan Kennedy, a professor of journalism at Northeastern University, said of the Carriage Towne News closure.

The changes are necessary to help make “social media platforms [into] spaces where teens can connect and be creative in age-appropriate ways,” said Rachel Rodgers, an associate professor in the Department of Applied Psychology at Northeastern University.

Northeastern University offered a class with a different objective.

he researchers, drawn from the University of Copenhagen and Northeastern University in Boston, exploited that similarity.

Launched as a capstone project by then-students Keith Corso and Neil Bhammar at Northeastern University in 2021, BusRight, which builds and sells cloud-based software for school transportation offices, has gained tremendous momentum in the past three years.

A report from Northeastern University revealed that “smart speakers accidentally activate as many as 19 times a day, recording 43 seconds of audio each time.”

Antisemitic hate crimes increased in Boston after Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct. 7, but the uptick is also part of the yearslong trend of rising white nationalism, says Jack McDevitt, a criminal justice professor at Northeastern University.

In a statement, Rachel Rodgers, a psychologist at Northeastern University, called the measures “an important step in making social media platforms spaces where teens can connect and be creative in age-appropriate ways.”

But in 2023, there were 39 mass shootings in which four or more people were killed, not including the perpetrator, which surpasses the previous year’s record of 36, according to the USA TODAY/Northeastern University/Associated Press Mass Killings Database.