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CBS News
Trump’s Section 122 tariffs could spur new legal battle, experts say
“It’s more harmful than having higher tariffs, because businesses don’t want to invest when they’re not sure what is going to happen,” international trade economist Asha Sundaram, chair of the economics department at Northeastern University, told CBS News.
Paul Revere on a pub crawl? Founders made history in these taverns
Malcolm Purinton teaches history at Northeastern University in Boston, but he’s also known as the Beer Historian.
The SYRN Call of Oddly Spelled Brand Names
Alexandra Roberts, a professor of law and media at Northeastern University in Boston, said that brand names — called marks, in legalese — have to fulfill certain criteria in order to be deemed explicitly distinctive, rather than descriptive, by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
World Cup Crowds Could Be Targeted. This Team Worked to Keep Them Safe.
NY Times’ “Lost Science” series profiles Michael Silevitch, who leads SENTRY, a research center dedicated to protecting busy public spaces, and last April was instructed to “end all work” immediately.
Boston to keep three MBTA bus routes free to ride through June, but long-term plan is unclear
“People ride more when it’s cheaper. … that means improving their mobility, giving them opportunities to go places and do things, participate in life,“ said Peter Furth, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northeastern University.
‘We May Have a Crisis on Our Hands’: The Unregulated Rise of Emotionally Intelligent AI
Lisa Feldman-Barrett, a psychology professor at Northeastern University, says “social support from a trusted, reliable source can be beneficial.” If an AI can reduce distress in the moment, she says that’s a good thing.
Fortune
Elon Musk is pushing to build data centers in space. But they won’t solve AI’s power problems anytime soon
As a result, orbital data centers would also need large onboard batteries to smooth out power fluctuations, said Josep Miquel Jornet, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Northeastern University.
San Francisco Chronicle
After sharing a phony Rachel Maddow video, I reflected on how algorithms are dividing us
By using a browser extension that reranked content on the X feeds of study participants, prioritizing antidemocratic attitudes or partisan animosity, Northeastern University researchers found that people’s negative feelings toward the opposition party increased significantly.
The Harvard of the South … Of the West?
A new tactic, pioneered by Northeastern University a few years ago, is taking the satellite campus concept to its logical extreme. “A university cannot be defined by its campus,” Joseph Aoun, Northeastern’s president, told me. “We’re going to them rather than asking them to come to one campus.”
‘We prepare for the wrong disasters’: Earth’s fight against encroaching saltwater
With all these solutions, “there are no silver bullets, and what works in one place may not work in another”, notes Lizzie Yarina, a climate adaptation researcher at Northeastern University in the US.
Business schools search for clear AI guidelines
A tracker produced by Northeastern University’s Center for Inclusive Computing in Boston estimated at the end of last year that there were 728 AI-focused undergraduate programmes just in computing departments at 584 universities across the US.
Scientific American
Algorithms really do create political polarization—and this AI tool let users avoid it
The difference was two to three degrees on a 100-degree “feeling thermometer.” That might not seem big, but “it’s comparable to three years of historical change on average in the U.S.,” says co-author Chenyan Jia, a communication scientist at Northeastern University.