Fortune 50 Trillion Calculations per Second in the Palm of Your Hand—Data Sheet Researchers from Northeastern University and Imperial College London caught smart TVs made by Samsung and LG and streaming devices from Roku and Amazon uploading data about their owners to advertisers, in some cases even when the devices were not in use.
As homicides drop in L.A., more women are being killed — often by intimate partners James Alan Fox, a criminologist at Northeastern University, released a study in March that also found an uptick in the rates of intimate partner violence involving a gun. Fox said it’s unclear whether the increase is temporary or a trend.
FiveThirtyEight Just How Many Swing Voters Are There? One way to get at this question is to use the approach of Northeastern University political scientist William Mayer, who wrote a 2008 book on the subject.
On Roku and Amazon Fire TV, Channels Are Watching You Just this week, researchers from Northeastern University and Imperial College London had similar findings in a survey of smart TVs.
The Irish Times Smart TVs sending private data to Netflix, Google and Facebook Researchers from Northeastern University in the US and Imperial College London found that a number of smart TVs, including those made by Samsung and LG, and the streaming dongles Roku and Amazon’s Fire TV, were sending out data such as location and IP address to Netflix and third-party advertisers.
Fact check: From Iran pre-conditions to the weather in North Carolina, Trump made 87 false claims last week A post-election assessment from Costas Panagopoulos, a political science professor at Northeastern University, ranked the Post/ABC poll the second-most-accurate of 14 national polls he studied.
Tripping the light fantastic era Researchers from Northeastern University and Imperial College London found that a number of smart TVs, including those made by Samsung and LG, and the streaming dongles Roku and Amazon’s FireTV, were sending out data such as location and IP address to Netflix and third-party advertisers.
NBC News Smart TVs, smart-home devices found to be leaking sensitive user data, researchers find One of the researchers, David Choffnes, a professor of computer science at Northeastern, said that his previous work looking at the data collection and dissemination habits of mobile apps led him to expect similar practices with smart-home devices.
ABC News Colorado school training kindergartners to high schoolers to respond to an active shooter James Alan Fox, The Lipman Family Professor of Criminology, Law and Public Policy at Northeastern University, said that while he supports students talking through active shooter scenarios, drills are “overboard.”
The Appeal A Trap of Law Level Drug Arrests And Court Debt In Pittsburgh “This is just a gross misallocation of resources,” said Leo Beletsky, a professor of law and health sciences at Northeastern University and faculty director of the Health In Justice Action Lab. “If you talk to [police and prosecutors] one on one, they will rightly tell you that [prosecuting low-level drug cases] is shoveling shit against the […]
What Felicity Huffman’s prison sentence means for other parents in college admissions scandal “It does, to some extent, provide a benchmark or a barometer of what other parents should expect who plead guilty,” said Daniel Medwed, professor of law and criminal justice at Northeastern University School of Law.
The Conversation The 4 big questions that the next Israeli government will decide Dov Waxman, Professor of Political Science, International Affairs and Israel Studies, Northeastern University
