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Your smart assistant is listening, but does that impact the ads you see?

Consumer Reports and researchers at Boston’s Northeastern University created fake persons to interact with Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri. This is data we all need to pay attention to.
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Supreme Court says it will formally adopt a code of ethics for the first time

 Dan Urman with Northeastern University School of Law joined LiveNOW from FOX’s Josh Breslow to discuss the question many have asked – could Justice Thomas be impeached as a result?

New research uncovers a pseudonym potentially used by author Louisa May Alcott

Radio Boston learns more about new research that links author Louisa May Alcott with more than a dozen titles written under a previously undiscovered pseudonym.
Daily Mail

I’m an ex-FDA food safety expert and here are the 10 things I would NEVER do in the kitchen

Leaving food out of the fridge for more than two hours can lead to a risky temperature drop, Dr Darin Detwiler, a food safety expert at Northeastern University in Boston and former FDA and USDA food safety advisor, told DailyMail.com. 
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Students should learn about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in the classroom — not on TikTok

At Northeastern University, Hillel officials confirmed that an Instagram post by an individual who has not been publicly identified included Jewish students’ names, Instagram handles, and public biographies and called for them to be shamed on campus.
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Exposure of brothels that catered to the elite spotlights how legal system treats buyers and sellers in sex trade

While there is debate about whether arresting buyers cuts down on the exploitative sex trade, “not arresting them at all completely sanctions their behavior,” said Amy Farrell, the director of Northeastern University’s School of Criminology & Criminal Justice. “It’s not fair to arrest sellers but not buyers.”

For Diwali, Boston-brewed Rupee is putting the ‘India’ back in India Pale Ale

After college at Northeastern University, and time in London, Sharma returned home to help out during the pandemic.
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Israel hopes technology will help it fight in Hamas’s tunnels

Like its maritime counterpart, this involves sending out sound waves (often by hammering on a metal plate) and listening for echoes. Pinging the underworld in this way, says Carey Rappaport, a computer scientist at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, can reveal tunnels 100 metres down.
CBS Boston

Northeastern researcher believes he found 20 new works by Louisa May Alcott

Max Chapnick, lead researcher at Northeastern University, believes he has found 20 new works by Louisa May Alcott.
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The Lewiston, Maine, mass shooting was the first test of Biden’s new gun violence prevention office

As of Wednesday, there had been at least 37 mass killings in the United States in 2023, leaving at least 195 people dead, not including shooters who died, according to a database maintained by The Associated Press and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
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Zoning laws, racial covenants, and segregation in Greater Boston explored in new report

Ted Landsmark, director of Northeastern University’s Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, advised and edited the report. Dain’s findings reminded him of his struggles moving to Boston as a young Black professional in the 1970s, and the lack of “access to housing, residential, and education opportunities in [suburban] communities.”
NBC News

Rise in hate crimes includes a ‘significant increase’ against Latinos

“Hate crimes have increased fairly steadily over the last eight years. But there are certain groups that have suffered this increase disproportionately, and the Hispanic community is an example,” said Carlos Cuevas, an academic at Northeastern University who has collaborated with investigations with the Department of Justice.