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‘I’m living proof of why IVF is so necessary.’ Bills aiming to protect IVF treatment move forward in Alabama legislature

Until new legislation or policy is implemented in Alabama, many providers have their hands tied, Katherine Kraschel, an assistant professor at Northeastern University School of Law, told CNN.
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Google Left in ‘Terrible Bind’ by Pulling AI Feature After Right-Wing Backlash

“The tech industry as a whole, with Google right at the front, has again put themselves in a terrible bind of their own making,” said Laura Edelson, an assistant professor at Northeastern University who has studied AI systems and the flow of information across large online networks. 
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Child care sector — essential to Boston’s economy — is struggling to recruit new workers

For industry experts, the report contained few surprises. Kimberly Lucas, a sociologist at Northeastern University’s Policy School who focuses on early education, noted in her closing remarks that she had made “almost identical” findings in her own report on the workforce 15 years ago.
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Prices, jobs, access to groceries: What’s at stake as the FTC tries to kill the Kroger-Albertsons merger

Seth Harris, a law and policy professor at Northeastern University, called it a sign that the agency “takes anticompetitive behavior in labor markets as seriously as it takes anticompetitive behavior in consumer product markets.”
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Facial Recognition Heads to Class. Will Students Benefit?

“Would faculty members or administrators like to be continuously surveilled to see if we were paying attention or checking our phones for potential messages from our children or people we care for that might indeed be time sensitive?” asked Kathleen Creel, assistant professor of philosophy and computer science at Northeastern University.
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Did Saudi trolls help Johnny Depp win battle with Amber Heard?

I asked two data experts — Zhouhan Chen, of New York University, and Kaicheng Yang, of Northeastern University — to analyse our database of one million tweets about Depp and Heard. They found numerous examples of ‘inauthentic activity’ in this vast dataset.
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California’s Phantom Lake Tulare Has Disappeared

A recent Northeastern University study found that native wetland birds, who used to use the area as a stopover for migrations, started returning to the area. But if the lake continues to disappear, the birds will likely follow.
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AI Spam Threatens the Internet—AI Can Also Protect It Better and more effective AI detection techniques are on the horizon

Another from researchers at Indiana University and Northeastern University in Boston estimated that between 8,500 and 17,500 daily active accounts on social-media platform X (formerly Twitter) use an AI-generated profile picture.
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Boston nonprofit is replacing service monkeys with tech for disabled adults

The other three projects are partnerships with startup Cognimate, a developer of an AI-powered glove to help stroke victims recover, Access AI, an app being developed at Northeastern University to help those who are blind apply for jobs, and Waipoint, a tech startup out of Washington that is making glasses that tell visually impaired people […]
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A new immigration court is set to open in Mass. Will it help the immense backlog of cases?

Hemanth C. Gundavaram, cofounder and director of the Immigrant Justice Clinic at Northeastern University School of Law, agreed.
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China’s Russia Support Strategy

China Watcher spoke to Jonathan Benda, a professor in the Writing Program at Northeastern University who’s researching Kerr’s Taiwan experiences and wrote the foreword to the book’s latest edition, about how 2/28 still haunts the island’s relations with both Washington and Beijing.
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Fact-check: Can cold weather actually make you sick?

Well, one legacy of the COVID pandemic was the popularisation of one important device for fending off these pesky germs: a face mask. “One thing we’ve found, which is something we’re already doing in many parts of the world, is wearing a mask. Even though COVID-19 has decreased and the concerns are not as significant,” Mansoor […]