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Researchers find a way to make photos and muted videos ‘speak’ – here’s what it could mean for your privacy

By creating a machine learning tool called Side Eye, a team led by professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science at Northeastern University, Kevin Fu, can read into images to an extraordinary degree.
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Predictive Policing Software Terrible at Predicting Crimes

“To me, the entire benefit of this type of analysis is using it as a starting point to engage police commanders and, when possible, community members in larger dialog to help understand exactly what it is about these causal factors that are leading to hot spots forming,” says Northeastern University professor Eric Piza, who has […]
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This Roxbury company is getting corporate America buzzing about bees

Annie Christie is a beekeeper who has worked at Best Bees for two years. She began the job as part of a co-op program at Northeastern University where she studies environmental science. She never expected beekeeping would become a career.
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The Mississippi River has careened between floods and low-water levels in recent years. Samuel Muñoz, a Northeastern University professor who has researched the river basin, attributed this in part to El Niño and La Niña climate cycles and a changing climate that has made droughts and floods more extreme.

Blue cities rethink their embrace of progressive drug policies

And that’s definitely visible,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor at Northeastern University who studies the public health impact of laws.
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Advisory Boards Aid in Alleviating AI Anxiety

Northeastern University created an external AI board, co-chaired by two faculty members and joined by industry heavyweights including Honeywell and the Mayo Clinic.

It’s Possible To Extract Audio From A Still, Soundless Image

However, professor of electrical and computer engineering and computer science at Northeastern University Kevin Fu saw the review and set about showing that extracting audio from images and silent video, at least, is possible.
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The abortion myths Republicans are recycling to reframe a losing issue

“‘Late-term abortion’ isn’t a thing,” said Katherine Kraschel, an assistant professor of law and health at Northeastern University. “It’s a term created by people who oppose abortion to spread disinformation and shame people who have abortion. It has no basis in medicine or science.”
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Getty’s AI-generated image tool allays some artist concerns

“It looks like they have taken Stability to task,” said Michael Bennett, director of education curriculum and business lead for responsible AI at Northeastern University.
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NS/ Jellyfish, with no central brain, shown to learn from past experience

An international research team from Nagoya City University (Japan) and Mills College at Northeastern University (USA) has revealed the possibility that the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans possesses basic “emotions.”
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Moody’s: Government shutdown could negatively affect US credit rating

Back when Fitch first gave the U.S. its first AA+,  Robert K. Triest, professor and chair of the Department of Economics at Northeastern University, said it’s doubtful that there would be a “discernible impact on any real economic activity.”
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Celebrating Lynn: Local Professor Designs Line of Lynn T-Shirts

Michael Aghahowa is an adjunct professor at Northeastern University and Emmanuel College.