WCVB TV Massachusetts politicians, TikTok users react to Supreme Court’s decision to uphold TikTok ban Northeastern University professor David Choffnes says data collection leading to targeting ads is mostly harmless. “People should be concerned in general when they’re using apps that collect all kinds of information about us,” Choffnes said.
How to prepare for a TikTok ban, including how to save your content Akin to the app, David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, says the TikTok website should continue to work even after the ban goes into effect.
What will happen to TikTok on Apple and Google’s app store on Sunday? Meanwhile, David Choffnes, executive director of the Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute at Northeastern University in Boston, said he believes there’s a “small chance” that nothing happens to TikTok, but acknowledged that would require “enormous risk on the on the part of the companies that support them.”
AdAge How Walmart’s ‘Wirkin’ is helping redefine dupe culture According to research from Northeastern University, 71% of Gen Zers and 67% of millennials “sometimes” or “always” buy dupes, and are transparent about the fact that those products are replicas.
Self Magazine The Easiest (and Safest!) Way to Organize Your Fridge A stuffed-to-the-gills refrigerator is a strained one, and overtaxed and over-crowded machines are more likely to fail, Darin Detwiler, PhD, a food safety expert and associate teaching professor at Northeastern University’s College of Professional Studies, tells SELF.
Smithsonian Magazine Why Was Zora Neale Hurston So Obsessed With the Biblical Villain Herod the Great? In any case, all attempts to salvage the project failed, and the surviving fragments “demonstrate why Hurston was unable to find a willing publisher,” writes Carla Kaplan, a literary scholar at Northeastern University, in Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters.
The Verge Meet the brothers who built NYC’s favorite congestion pricing tracking tool He roped in his brother Joshua, who was about to start his freshman year at Northeastern University. Together, they got started outlining the tool.
Sibling rivalry: parents favour older children and daughters, study finds Laurie Kramer, a professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University in Boston, cautioned that the data was collected in different ways among the different sources, and the analysis does not take into account potential shifts in cultural norms over decades.
Forbes How Computing Can Be Inclusive The Center for Inclusive Computing at Northeastern University is focused on reducing these barriers. According to Dean of Inclusive Computing Carla Brodley, through the Center for Inclusive Computing, the university has identified 10 research-based interventions that help colleges and universities to remove the barriers that prevent students from “discovering and thriving in computing programs.”
‘Window-dressing’ Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy and how we got here WBUR’s The Common spoke to Donathan Brown, vice provost for faculty diversity at Northeastern University and co-editor of “Dream and Legacy: Revisiting King in a Post Civil Rights Era,” about where we fall short in our collective memories of Dr. King’s values.
CBS News Abbott accused of deceiving parents with potentially harmful formula for toddlers Yet unlike baby formula, the toddler milk products are not regulated by the FDA and are potentially harmful, according to PHAI, a nonprofit legal research center located at Northeastern University School of Law.
Saving eelgrass, the most important plant you’ve likely never heard of Northeastern University marine science professor Randall Hughes stood nearby, answering questions. She’s pushing an effort to get eelgrass named the official marine flora of Massachusetts.