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Musi Won Over Millions. Is the Free Music Streaming App Too Good to Be True?
Building a booming business in streaming music without taking on any of the legwork of striking deals with labels and distributors. That causes David Herlihy, a copyright lawyer and music industry professor at Northeastern University, to describe Musi as a “bottom feeder.”
Mass Live
Mass. economy slows, labor market seems strong, says MassBenchmarks
“The strength in the first quarter in part reflects timing; withholding taxes in both the fourth quarter of 2023 and the first quarter of 2023 were both relatively weak,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, senior contributing editor and professor emeritus of economics and public policy at Northeastern University.
Anatomy of a scroll: Inside TikTok’s AI-powered algorithms
POLITICO teamed up with Laura Edelson, a researcher at Northeastern University in Boston, to track pro-Palestinian and pro-Israeli TikTok content over four months between Oct. 7, 2023, and Jan. 29, 2024.
Northeastern lands $9M grant to study advanced AI
Northeastern University has been given a $9 million grant to investigate how advanced artificial intelligence systems operate, including their societal impacts. The grant, announced by the National Science Foundation, will allow for what Northeastern hopes will be a new collaborative research platform.
‘Demographics are going to catch up with us’: Mass. economy chugs ahead but needs more workers to keep growing
“You’d expect Massachusetts employment to grow more slowly than the nation because we are an older state,” said Alan Clayton-Matthews, senior contributing editor for MassBenchmarks and emeritus professor of economics and public policy at Northeastern University. “Eventually, the demographics are going to catch up with us.”
iNews
I don’t want my elder daughter to be a people pleaser like me
While it’s not a clinical diagnosis, Dr Laurie Kramer, Professor of Applied Psychology at Northeastern University, researches sibling relationships and says explicitly or implicitly, older daughters are frequently given more caregiving responsibilities at home – which continue into adulthood, when they will often co-ordinate family get togethers or care of elderly parents.
PA Media
Parrots taught to video call friends ‘prefer live chats over recorded messages’
For the study, which also involved a team from Northeastern University in the US, the researchers wanted to explore the online social lives of nine pet parrots.
Parrots can tell live calls apart from pre-recorded videos
Scientists from Northeastern University and the University of Glasgow studying how parrots behave, believe they can tell live videos apart from pre-recorded clips.
What happened when scientists taught parrots to video chat?
Researchers from Northeastern University, MIT, and the University of Glasgow recently set out to see how several species of parrots interacted when placed on brief video calls with one another.
Is the U.S. a democracy?
With guest Edward Miller, professor of political history at Northeastern University.
Seth Harris on April Jobs Report Preview
Seth Harris, Burnes Center for Social Change Senior Fellow at Northeastern University, discusses the current status of the economy and the labor market ahead of the April Jobs report.
Say hello (again) to EA Sports College Football. The beloved video-game behemoth is back
“Video games, as popular as they were, they’ve just evolved so much based on how society has evolved and having so many different modes and options,” says Nicolette Aduama, the senior associate director at Northeastern University’s Center for the Study of Sport in Society.