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‘Anywhere there’s a camera, now there’s a risk’: Billions of users at risk of Peeping Toms — scientists devise incredibly simple eavesdropping system costing only a few hundred dollars

The research, led by Kevin Fu, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University, targets a vulnerability in the data transmission cables within most modern cameras. These cables unintentionally act as radio antennas, leaking electromagnetic information that can be picked up and decoded to reveal real-time video.
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‘Game changer’: Mass. doctors hail new federal rule expanding access to methadone

“These [methadone] regulations were never built on a scientific foundation,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.
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The AI Industry Is Stuck on One Very Specific Way to Use a Chatbot

“There are probably thousands of places on webpages that describe a trip to Boston,” Kathleen Creel, a professor of philosophy and computer science at Northeastern University, told me. 
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Beyond the shelf: How grocers decide what gets donated and what gets dumped

There are three things you can do with unsold food – discount, dispose or donate, said John Lowrey, an assistant professor at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business who studies food waste and retail donations. Deciding a fresh item’s fate can be labour-intensive, he added.
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The Problem With Punishing Parents for Their Kids’ Crimes

Victoria Cain is associate professor of history at Northeastern University. 
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Antony Blinken’s Family Is the Latest Target of Washington’s Ugliest Protest Trend

“There are conceptual tools we have in political theory and philosophy to think about it,” Northeastern University philosophy professor Candice Delmas, who has written extensively about the subject, told me. “There is the question of what, exactly, they’re trying to do.”
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A jazzy new biography unfurls Ella Fitzgerald’s life and career

A professor emerita of music history at Northeastern University, Tick blends her understanding of the era with recent interviews and newly accessible digital copies of Black-owned newspapers of the time. 
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Healey creates AI task force for Massachusetts

The Executive Office of Technology Services and Security and Executive Office of Administration and Finance have also partnered with Northeastern University to develop ways to implement AI solutions in state government. 
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Gov. Healey launches AI task force to boost competitiveness in tech

In addition, Healey announced a partnership with Northeastern University to develop AI tools for state government agencies. 
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Greater Boston: The Constitution bars insurrectionists from office. SCOTUS may let Trump run anyway

Gautam Mukunda was joined by Politico Senior Legal Affairs Reporter Josh Gerstein and Jeremy Paul, a professor of Constitutional Law at Northeastern University, to weigh in how the Supreme Court case could shake out.
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Love, Throughline

Moira Weigel, assistant professor at Northeastern University and author of Labor of Love: The Invention of Dating
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Inflation is cooling. So why are food prices, from steak to fast-food meals, still rising?

Greedflation refers to when companies hike product prices beyond the rate of inflation in order to juice their profits — a concept that Northeastern University economist William Dickens notes has become politicized, with Democrats typically leaning into the idea. Republicans, meanwhile, tend to blame the Biden administration for higher prices.