Most people expect that turning their phone’s location services off disables this sort of mobile surveillance. But the research conducted by Northeastern University researchers Guevara Noubir, Sashank Narain, Triet Vo-Huu, Ken Block and Amirali Sanatinia, in a field called “side-channel attacks,” uncovers ways that apps can avoid or escape those restrictions.

The majority of U.S. adults believe employers should pay for retraining if the implementation of AI caused job displacement, according to a survey from Gallup and Northeastern University of 3,297 U.S. adults. Respondents also would look toward the federal government to fund reskilling.

Gary Young, director of the health policy centre at Northeastern University, said: “Don’t discount Amazon’s ambition. Amazon has a certain way of looking at the world and a certain way of engaging consumers. They believe very firmly that they can do things better.”

Northeastern University journalism professor Laurel Leff also recently learned that a relative who had survived the Holocaust had altered her story. The author of “Buried by The Times: The Holocaust and America’s Most Important Newspaper”, Leff learned from archival records that her cousin, who had always maintained that she had been liberated from Bergen-Belsen, had […]

While fewer people are buying guns, people who do buy them are buying more than they ever have, according to statistical data. The average gun owner in the U.S. now possesses eight firearms, with half of the guns in the U.S. belonging to just three percent of the population, according to a recent Harvard and […]

Ask Baxter, a graduate of Northeastern University, about her duties as head physical therapist and she will quickly hit you with an, “Oh, my gosh,” and chase it with, “Everything,” before rattling off the list. During a competition, you can find Baxter at the top of the halfpipe doing any number of things: Handing out […]

The Federal Communication Commission’s controversial repeal of net neutrality last year has yet to go into effect, but a researcher at Northeastern University has built an app that detects when mobile carriers may be throttling traffic to apps like Netflix and YouTube. Dave Choffnes and his Ph.D. students built the app, called WeHe, last year […]

Dan Kennedy, journalism professor at Northeastern University and author of the Media Nation blog, said that the idea of a virtual newsroom “doesn’t sound like the worst thing (he’s) ever heard of.”

“When I am hiring someone in the cybersecurity domain, I try to see what they know and have done technically,” said Engin Kirda, professor of computer science at Northeastern University.

Urban rooming houses for single working men and women were once the norm in the United States. Boston, like many other US cities, long ago banned tiny apartments. But some housing experts, policy makers, and entrepreneurs are seeking to ease those rules to accommodate microunits and co-living systems. In a modern spin on communal housing, […]

There was a time, when he was protesting the Vietnam War, when Northeastern professor Stephen Nathanson did not feel particularly patriotic. Patriotism for him evoked enthusiastic support for the American government. The draft dodgers decamping to Canada or the unshaven masses in the streets did not necessarily call themselves patriots.

Nearly three-quarters of Americans believe artificial intelligence will lead to a net loss of jobs, according to a study by Gallup and Northeastern University released Wednesday. The survey asked roughly 3,300 Americans from Sept. 15 to Oct. 10 about their opinions on artificial intelligence and its perceived impact on their lives. Although 73 percent of […]