It was way past my bedtime. Sunday night, hours after we’d all learned of the horrific shootings in Orlando, I should’ve been asleep, but I was in bed thumbing away at my phone, having half-impulsively charged into that graveyard of discourse otherwise known as the Facebook comment thread.

Later this year, dozens of college teams from around the world will travel to Hawthorne, California to compete in a high-stakes contest to prove Elon Musk’s vision of super-fast, super-sustainable, tube-based transportation known as the Hyperloop.

With few formal studies on the role of the media, experts can only offer observations. Jack Levin, a criminologist at Northeastern University in Boston who has tracked mass killings, said that beginning with Columbine there was a rash of school shootings that generated widespread media coverage. The killings stopped abruptly after the terror attacks of […]

Dworken, who graduated on Monday from Maret high school in Washington, D.C., said he reported six vulnerabilities, but received no reward because they had already been reported. However, Dworken said he had already been approached by recruiters about potential internships. He said some of the bugs he found would have allowed others to display whatever […]

Three ventures with ties to Northeastern University have food and beverages on the brain. Gianmarco Di Pino and Nikhilesh More were hunting for authentic and affordable food from Italy and India, their respective home countries, which led them to a business idea. MyOnCampus Chef connects students who don’t have kitchens with those who do and […]

A study last year by the Congressional Research Service found that from 1999 to 2013 assault rifles were used in 27 percent public mass shootings, which it defines as the killing of four or more people in a relatively public place. Dating back to 1982, the rate is 24 percent, according to research by James […]

Level, a new two-month boot camp from Northeastern University, that focuses on data analytics can be an alternative to a full graduate degree program. The goal in coming years is to offer programming in a similar format in a variety of disciplines, including engineering, health, and liberal arts, says Nick Ducoff, vice president for new […]

Well, T-Mobile CEO John Legere, it might be time to get back onto your video tweet responses: a group of Northeastern University researchers are releasing a research paper on Thursday that questions the mobile carrier’s “Binge On” program, which provides smartphone users with free data for certain video streaming services, though at slower download speeds. […]

“Puerto Rico has lost half of its manufacturing jobs. Just gone” said Amílcar Barreto, a political scientist at Boston’s Northeastern University who researches nationalism and ethnic politics, largely focusing on Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico has actually lost slightly more than half of its manufacturing base since 1996,nearly 100,000 jobs. The island has suffered a decade of economic stagnation […]

“When we talk about mass killing, we talk about it as criminal homicide,” James Alan Fox, a criminology professor at Northeastern University, tells me. “And, generally, killing related to military operations, wartime, etc., is not criminal homicide. It’s homicide, but not criminal homicide.” Although there are times when American troops kill civilians and are prosecuted […]

The high court’s ruling signals that Puerto Rico is out of practical options and has little alternative but to await for Washington’s fiscally castigating hammer to fall. Budgetary retribution is expected to come in the form of a federally appointed control board empowered to bypass the budgetary powers of the island’s elected governor and legislature. […]

Banning the Washington Post from covering his campaign rallies isn’t just a sign of Donald Trump’s distrust of the press. Reporters are an early warning system. History shows that politicians who turn against the media and cut off their access don’t stop there. Remember Richard Nixon. Nixon made no bones about it — he hated […]