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Affordable housing notches a small win in Biddeford

In 2019, the state released an economic development roadmap that lists attracting over 75,000 new workers to the state by 2029 as among its core goals.  At a recent summit put on by the Roux Institute at Northeastern University, Director of Special Projects at the Maine Department of Labor Samantha Dina said that the target is important […]
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Maine business accelerator will launch for ‘blue economy’ startups using AI

The accelerator, Blue w(AI)ve, is a partnership between Gulf of Maine Ventures and the Roux Institute at Northeastern University. 

Maine sheriff’s office received warning about mass shooter 5 months before rampage

The Lewiston shootings were the 36th mass killing in the U.S. this year, according to a database maintained by the AP and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. 
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Maine Mass Shooter’s Family Reached out to Sheriff 5 Months Before Rampage: Authorities

The Lewiston shootings were the 36th mass killing in the U.S. this year, according to a database maintained by the AP and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
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Maine gunman’s family sought help in May. What failed?

The Lewiston shootings were the 36th mass killing in the United States this year, according to a database maintained by the AP and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University.
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Midweek Reset: Creativity has no age

This week, Professor of Network Science at Northeastern University and author of “The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success,”Albert-László Barabási debunks the myth that youth echoes creativity and says creativity knows no age limit.

Louisa May Alcott used pen names. A researcher thinks he found another

“If in the course of searching for Gould, I actually found yet another story that’s under Alcott’s own name that we haven’t yet found, there’s got to be more,” said Chapnick, who is now a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University. 
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Where are the women in tech and AI?

Brodley — who would go on to become dean of Northeastern’s Khoury College of Computer Sciences and founding executive director of the Center for Inclusive Computing — made about $18,000 at her first job, a salary that equates to just under $49,000 in today’s dollars.
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The best robot vacuum for me is the one I hacked

Valetudo itself exists because of Sören Beye (AKA Hypfer) and Dennis Giese. Giese, a PhD student at Northeastern University, started hacking back in 2017, eventually found a way to root a Xiaomi robot, and wrote a cloud replacement implementation called Dustcloud. He published it at Def Con and CCC, 
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Maine mass shooter’s family reached out to sheriff 5 months before rampage, sheriff’s office says

The Lewiston shootings were the 36th mass killing in the U.S. this year, according to a database maintained by the AP and USA Today in partnership with Northeastern University. 
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‘People have no idea’: How smart devices spy on us and reveal information about our homes

“One of the biggest problems is the invasion of privacy,” says David Choffnes, professor at Northeastern University in Boston and one of the co-authors of the work. 
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Co-workers knew he was struggling. They didn’t expect he’d buy an AR-15.

 Ninety-nine days into the calendar year, Sturgeon’s assault on Old National Bank was the 15th mass killing with a gun in the United States in 2023, according to data compiled by the Associated Press, USA Today and Northeastern University and analyzed by The Post.