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A.I. Home Fitness Machines Push You Past Your Limits

Adding A.I. to a workout might sound overly complex, but it just means “using a specific data set to map incoming data,” said Stephen Intille, Ph.D., an associate professor at Northeastern University specializing in health tech. 
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Coronavirus: new survey shows how Republicans and Democrats are responding differently

Costas Panagopoulos Department Chair and Professor of Political Science , Northeastern University

So You Had a Bad Day …

Your nervous system is in overload, so it’s no wonder you don’t know what you’re feeling anymore. This is called “experiential blindness,” said Lisa Feldman Barrett, Ph.D., professor of psychology at Northeastern University and author of “How Emotions are Made.”

Op-Ed: Coronavirus tracing apps are coming. Here’s how they could reshape surveillance as we know it

Woodrow Hartzog is a professor of law and computer science at Northeastern University.
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What is the future for travel and migration in age of Covid-19?

“We human beings often have tried to forestall epidemics by shuttering, by drawing up the drawbridge, and there is no question that travel can spread some types of disease. But it’s also much harder than we imagine to contain,” said Wendy Parmet professor of law, public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University.
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This ugly t-shirt makes you invisible to facial recognition tech

“The adversarial T-shirt works on the neural networks used for object detection,” explains Xue Lin, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern, and co-author of a recent paper on the subject. 
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How COVID-19 is exposing — and widening — cracks in the US health system

The interdependent relationship between health and housing creates a relentless cycle, according to Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.
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Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs scraps its ambitious Toronto project

“The next time this is done by Sidewalk Labs or any big tech corporation that wants to reimagine the future of neighborhoods, it will be done in close communication with communities,” says Daniel O’Brien, who studies research and policy implications of “big data” at Northeastern University’s School of Public Policy.
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Our cities may never look the same again after the pandemic

If they do, the widely-publicized six-foot distancing guidelines could redefine the layout and spacing of new public facilities, according to Northeastern University’s Sara Jensen Carr, whose forthcoming book “The Topography of Wellness” considers how urban landscapes have been transformed by epidemics like cholera, tuberculosis and obesity.

Oh, Good, the Kids Are Fighting Again

“I think it’s really important to offer some hope that this is actually a good time to help kids have more positive stuff going on in their relationships,” said Laurie Kramer, Ph.D., a professor of applied psychology at Northeastern University in Boston and an expert on sibling relationships. “It is possible, and I don’t think that parents […]
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Every conversation about reopening should be about testing

“This is supply chain 101. This is operations 101,” Nada Sanders, a supply chain management expert at Northeastern University, told me. “It’s so simple. And it’s just not happening.”
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COVID-19 is exposing cracks in the US health system, experts say

The interdependent relationship between health and housing creates a relentless cycle, according to Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University.