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The Verge

Taylor Swift is stepping up the legal war on AI copycats

But Alexandra Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University, tells The Verge that she’s “skeptical” that the audio clip submitted by Swift’s team “demonstrates use as a mark, rather than just a phrase that’s included as part of a longer message”
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Actors, business leaders, and astrophysicists. Here’s who is speaking at area college commencements.

Northeastern University? Who‘s speaking? Hilary Duff, a multiplatinum global star. She is best known for starring in the Disney titular character “Lizzie McGuire” as well as movies like “The Cinderella Story.” She is also an award-winning singer-songwriter whose recent album made it to the top of the Billboard 200 charts.

Political Campaigns Have No Idea What’s About to Hit Them

David Lazer, a professor of both political science and computer sciences at Northeastern, contended in an email that A.I. will transform the industry as it will transform any industry that involves analysis and interpretation of data.
The Independent

US gambling addiction is ‘out of control’ and requires a public health response, experts say

Gambling addiction in the U.S. is becoming a fully fledged crisis and “demands a public health response,” activists have warned. “We’re seeing the evidence everywhere,” Harry Levant, director of gambling policy at the Public Health Advocacy Institute, told The Guardian.
Sportico

Texas Tech QB Gambling Probe Ratchets Up Betting Worries

As Sportico exclusively reported last month, the Public Health Advocacy Institute (PHAI) at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston is leading litigation, Sage & Thompson v. DraftKings et al., that depicts sports betting as a public health crisis
Mass Live

Can robots — and a new approach to modular building — help Mass. add housing?

“There’s probably more tailwinds” to promote more modular construction today, said Ivan Rupnik, a Northeastern University professor, “but there’s also still headwinds. It’s a complicated situation.”
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Parking fees? Congestion pricing? Mayor Wu’s new climate plan will study ways to discourage driving into Boston.

Joan Fitzgerald, a Northeastern University public policy and urban affairs professor, noted that Boston has struggled to reduce its transportation emissions. Though she supports congestion pricing, she said the measure would likely face political headwinds and require state approval.
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See the 1-in-50-Million Split-Color Lobster Caught Off the Coast of Massachusetts. It’s Carrying Two Sets of Genetic Information

Last summer, a fisher caught a one-in-two-million blue lobster, later nicknamed Neptune, which he donated to Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center in Nahant, Massachusetts. Also last year, a fisher hauled in a 1-in-30-million “calico” lobster with a bright orange shell speckled with bits of black and blue. 
El Nuevo Dia

The economic impact of dengue: an epidemic is estimated to cost Puerto Rico more than $1 billion

The cost of the dengue epidemic recorded in 2010 in Puerto Rico – with more than 10,000 reported cases – could have reached $1.1 billion , exceeding by 17 times the cost of a year without an epidemic, a new study estimated, which demonstrates, according to sources consulted, the importance of strengthening educational campaigns and prevention measures to respond […]
Vox

How charities should handle the next Jeffrey Epstein

But not every shady donor is so easy to spot. Instead, said Patricia Illingworth, a professor of philanthropy and ethics at Northeastern University and author of Giving Now: Accelerating Human Rights for All, the majority “are problematic mainly because of how they made their money” or because they’ve engaged in behavior that is morally dubious, but […]

The Apocalypse Goes Mainstream

Anthropic is consulting with a Catholic priest and other prominent Christians to give Claude a sense of spirituality. David DeSteno, a professor of psychology at Northeastern University, wrote a smart Opinion piece questioning whether that’s possible.)
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Donald Trump Faces Becoming the President He Ridiculed: Jimmy Carter

Costas Panagopoulos, a professor of political science at Northeastern University, told Newsweek that job performance disapproval “may be more likely to be impactful, but personal ratings also matter because the two measures are not completely independent.”