Although hacking one car might not be outside the realm of reason, Cipher is seen controlling a whole fleet with the flick of her finger. That part may be a little more suspect. “While it is impossible to completely rule out anything in the security world, in my opinion, it would be highly unlikely for […]

If you are anything like me, then at some point in your life, probably after watching Eminem’s final battle scene in “8 Mile,” you’ve thought to yourself, “Dang, I wish I could rap.” Jerry Spatch, a 20-year-old Northeastern University student, thinks you can. And he wants to help you do it with his new game, […]

The long-running debate over abortion is expected to intensify during the Trump administration as both sides foresee changes on the Supreme Court, beginning with the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch. That debate over a woman’s right to choose plays out on a regular basis at an east Charlotte women’s reproductive health clinic, A Preferred Women’s Health […]

Companies will also need someone experienced in A.I., since it will be the smarts in autonomous machines. “Applications of machine learning in robotics is on the rise,” said Taskin Padir, an associate professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University, in Boston. “Each practical robot system will rely on some level of A.I. to […]

Sam Mulcahy, the third-year Northeastern University student who is playing McMurphy, says he’s a little nervous about his performance being compared to Jack Nicholson’s Oscar-winning turn in the 1975 film, but Clark has encouraged him to make the role his own. “McMurphy has a primal rage that drives him, balanced by his outsized personality,” says […]

The violations sound pretty bad, but Darin Detwiler, D.L.P., assistant dean at the College of Professional Studies at Northeastern University and a professor of food policy, tells Yahoo Beauty that they’re not uncommon. “Food not being held at the right temperature is one of the most frequent violations at restaurants,” he says. And, he points […]

But the reality of America’s economy, where monopolies are part of the commercial fabric, makes that threat less than effective. “If you are in Houston, good luck if you want to boycott United,” said John Kwoka, an economics professor at Northeastern University, referring to how the airline dominates that hub. “That’s called monopoly power, where […]

Matt Larson, a litigation analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence, and Andrea Matwyswhyn, a professor at Northeastern University, discuss a lawsuit between Apple and Qualcomm over Qualcomm’s pricing structure. They speak with June Grasso and Michael Best on Bloomberg Radio’s “Bloomberg Law.”

Evidence supporting this link has existed for decades. In one oft-cited study, researchers from Northeastern University and the Massachusetts SPCA documented that people who abuse animals are five times more likely to commit violent crime. But this concept is nothing new, and indeed is one that we have understood for centuries.

The election of Donald Trump has changed the nature of the political debate in America, and that applies with perhaps greater force to young people. As my former boss Michael Dukakis, who has been teaching at Northeastern University for many years, recently wrote to me: “Trump in an interesting kind of way has really turned […]

Three Northeastern University graduates founded Elsen in 2014 and the fintech company participated in the Boston-based nonprofit accelerator FinTech Sandbox in 2015. Elsen has raised $750,000 from Hyperplane Venture Capital, serial entrepreneur Bret Siarkowski, and an Accomplice-affiliated syndicate of angel investors. Zac Sheffer, co-founder and CEO of Elsen, said he saw the need for a […]

Few reporters have ever had the kind of year that David Fahrenthold experienced in 2016. From exposing the Trump Foundation’s bogus and illegal practices to unearthing a tape on which then-candidate Donald Trump could be heard crudely boasting about sexual assault, Fahrenthold single-handedly defined large swaths of the presidential campaign.