You have just gotten back from a long day of work to eat dinner. You pick up your fork, take a generous scoop of food, and are instantly disappointed. Where is the flavor? Where is the satisfying reward of a savory meal? Luckily, the saltshaker on your table is an easy fix. However, this common […]
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Taylor Swift. Northeastern memes. That concert you went to last weekend. Endless scrolling through countless short videos until you zone back into reality. This is a typical experience on TikTok’s “For You” page. Somehow, the mysterious TikTok algorithm never fails to yield an entertaining assortment of content, stealing hundreds of precious active hours with its
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For many, the idea of going beyond the boundaries of Earth’s atmosphere is exhilarating. Curiosity has propelled human development, allowing us to reach the stars. From inventing the airplane to landing on the moon, humanity has an obsession with what lies above. To explore the stars and be launched into the midst of a tenebrous
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The generative-AI-art cat has been let out of the bag. In the last several years, artificial intelligence art generators such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney, and DALL-E have had a meteoric rise in popularity — hyper-realistic still-life works and out-of-this-world landscapes can now be created by anyone who can put their ideas into words. How does
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A new artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot has emerged and has taken the internet by storm: ChatGPT. OpenAI released ChatGPT this past November, and it attracted the attention of millions of people within the first few days of its release. From being able to explain the laws of thermodynamics to coding a Tetris game in Java,
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Have you ever purchased something online? A T-shirt? A new pair of shoes? If so, you are among the majority of people with their credit card or bank account information stored privately online through encryption. As a result, you are also among a group of people who could be at risk of theft or fraud
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Global warming and its detrimental impacts on society and Earth’s natural systems have become an ever-urgent issue for humanity to confront. According to the U.N.’s World Meteorological Organization, there is a 50–50 chance we will reach 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming within the next five years with the likelihood continuously increasing. As the reality of
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On Wednesday, May 3, four Roxbury high school students and a couple of Northeastern undergraduate volunteers built mini wind turbines as part of an energy education pilot program. The motivation behind the event was not only to teach students about the generation and conversion of energy but also to try out accompanying learning modules with
