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Rolling Stone
There’s Now a Casino in Everyone’s Pocket. For Some Young Men, It’s a Near-Fatal Gamble
Harry Levant has always been a rower against the river: a former criminal-defense attorney who lost his license, and nearly lost his life, to his own gambling jones a decade back; a second-chance crusader and addictions counselor who mainly treats folks gutted by gambling disorders; and a peripatetic opponent of the online gambling behemoths DraftKings and FanDuel, […]
Al Jazeera
California’s landmark frontier AI law to bring transparency
“It is focused on disclosures. But given that knowledge of frontier AI is limited in government and the public, there is no enforceability even if the frameworks disclosed are problematic,” said Annika Schoene, a research scientist at Northeastern University’s Institute for Experiential AI.
Boston.com
13 horror books experts say will actually scare you
Our five horror experts include New York Times best-selling local author Paul Tremblay, known for “A Head Full of Ghosts,” “The Cabin at the End of the World,” and “Horror Movie: A Novel”; and Gary Goshgarian, Northeastern University Professor Emeritus of English who taught horror fiction for 40 years and wrote nine novels under the pen name […]
NBC Boston
This rare lobster caught off the coast of Gloucester is 1 in 30 million
This rare calico lobster was caught off the coast of Massachusetts, and her striking orange and black coloring sent her right to Northeastern University’s Marine Science Center.
Oaklandside
Oakland is quietly incorporating AI into city work
According to DeVries, staff from about 25 different city departments attended a workshop in April at Northeastern University’s Mills College campus.
Middle East Eye
Morocco: How GenZ 212 turned Discord into the ‘backbone’ of its protest action
Dr Claudia Flores-Saviaga, a digital activism researcher at Northeastern University’s Citizen AI Lab, explains to MEE that participation in online movements typically follows a pattern of self-regulation.
Bad Bunny Is the Most Popular American on Earth. Why the MAGA Backlash?
“If you’re thinking about music culture right now, he’s at the top of the summit,” said Amílcar Barreto, a political science professor at Northeastern University.
Republican Senator Blast NFL Booking ‘Second-Rate’ Bad Bunny for Super Bowl
Amílcar Barreto, a political science professor at Northeastern University, told Newsweek: “If you’re thinking about music culture right now, he’s at the top of the summit. But by doing it in Spanish, he’s challenging the idea that English is the only legitimate language in American life. That’s why it reads like a provocation—it’s not just music.”
EPA Moves To Roll Back Drinking Water Standards
“I am very concerned, as are all the scientists and affected residents whom my colleagues and I speak with all the time,” Phil Brown, the director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University, told Newsweek.
TikTok posts on Israel-Gaza war are overwhelmingly pro-Palestinian
“The bulk of the pro-Palestine and pro-Israel videos are getting largely comparable numbers of views,” said Laura Edelson, director of Cybersecurity for Democracy and an assistant professor of computer science at Northeastern University.
Germans meet up to eat pudding with forks — and the trend goes global
Last week, the official TikTok account of Boston’s Northeastern University posted a video of students gathered on a lawn eating pudding with forks, with captioned: “DeutschTok, consider this our application.”
Instagram Promised to Become Safer For Teens. Researchers Say It’s Not Working.
The new report is the second in recent weeks to cast doubt on the efficacy of Meta’s child-safety tools. In late September, a report from other online-safety advocacy groups, which was corroborated by researchers at Northeastern University, found that most of the 47 child safety features promised by Instagram were flawed.