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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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Critics of Trump’s immigration crackdown are using the term ‘Kavanaugh stop.’ Here’s what it means.

“It’s causing a great amount of fear. Fear for people going to work, even people who are here legally,”said Hemanth Gundavaram, a professor and associate dean at Northeastern University School of Law who is also the cofounder and director of the school’s Immigrant Justice Clinic.
Mass Live

Is Mass. in the middle of a ‘soft secession’? Here’s what that means

Still, “even a slowdown, you know, that could really wreak havoc with federal systems.” Jeremy Paul, a constitutional law professor at Northeastern University, told MassLive.
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The trick to making your smartphone a thousand times faster than it is now

More specifically, a team of American researchers from Northeastern University has developed a technique to control the electronic states of special quantummaterials, paving the way for a new generation of superfast gadgets. Their research was published in Nature Physics .
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Co-author of Republicans’ Project 2025 road map now holds key post to implement shutdown cuts

“The sort of working-behind-the-curtain reputation that he used to have has kind of been slowly dissolving,” said Nick Beauchamp, an associate professor of political science at Northeastern University.