Now, Big Tech companies facing antitrust lawsuits are likely to use the ruling to their advantage, said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University. “I think this gives an avenue, rightly or wrongly, for some of the other companies that are in the crosshairs to say that technology has made antitrust arguments irrelevant,” he […]

“There’s a reason Google’s stock jumped after this ruling was released,” said Christo Wilson, a Northeastern University computer science professor who has conducted research on Google’s monopoly. “It is a historic misfire that fails to meet the enormity of the finding that Google is a monopolist in online search.”  

“The standards are lax and can be manipulated by expert lawyers and creative manufacturers,” said David Simon, an associate law professor at Northeastern University who co-leads the Amy J. Reed Collaborative for Medical Device Safety. “In a variety of cases, devices are cleared and implanted in humans without ever having been tested on humans.”

“Domestic governance structure and international aid are very critical in a moment like the aftermath of this earthquake, and both are at a low point in Afghanistan at the moment,” said Daniel Aldrich, the director of the Resilience Studies Program at Northeastern University.

While international agencies initially filled humanitarian gaps after the Taliban’s takeover in August 2021, “the longer we’re seeing the consequences of [President Donald Trump’s] attacks on international aid agencies and the withdrawal of the U.S. from so many of those frameworks, we’re seeing that those gaps remain unfilled,” said Daniel Aldrich, co-director of the Global Resilience […]

“Likely to warm foods include ready-to-eat foods (deli meats, leftovers, cut fruit), eggs and dairy stored far from vents are most vulnerable,” Darin Detwiler, professor of food policy at Northeastern University, said.

Independent researchers have gone looking for covert “listening” and found none, including a definitive 2018 Northeastern University study that has yet to be superseded. What they did catch in a handful of cases were screen recordings or image and video uploads to third parties. Creepy, sure, but not a hot mic.

“It is a historic misfire that fails to meet the enormity of the finding that Google is a monopolist in online search,” said Christo Wilson, a Northeastern University computer sciences professor, who has studied Google’s operations.

Features research on PFAS chemicals by Phil Brown.