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Dear Sophie: How do I extend my visa status without leaving the US?

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.“Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge t

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GitHub is now free for all teams

GitHub today announced that all of its core features are now available for free to all users, including those that are on free accounts. That means free unlimited private repositories with unlimited c

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Stackery releases slew of updates to simplify serverless app deployment

Stackery, a 4-year old Portland startup, wants to help development teams deliver serverless resources on AWS more easily, and today it announced several enhancements to the platform.With serverless ap

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Covidmaps lets you find grocery stores and pharmacies in India

More than half a dozen volunteers have banded together in India to launch a crowdsourced tool to help people in the nation identify and locate nearby grocery stores, pharmacies, and cash machines as N

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Italy's COVID-19 death toll exceeds 20,000, minor breaches to lockdown over Easter

The coronavirus pandemic has claimed 20,465 lives in locked-down Italy as of Monday, bringing the total number of infections, fatalities and recoveries to 159,516, according to latest data released

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Mandated TB vaccination predicts flattened curves for U.S. COVID-19 spread

The total number of coronavirus-related deaths might not have reached triple digits by late March if the United States had mandatory tuberculosis vaccination in place

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Nearly half of COVID-19 deaths in Canada linked to long-term care homes

The Canadian government has urged long-term care homes to control COVID-19, as nearly half of the country's coronavirus deaths are linked to them. "Of the cases where

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Layoffs are disproportionately impacting startup satellite offices

Layoffs have struck the startup world swiftly, hurting hospitality and travel startups, as well as recruitment and scooter companies. New data shows that some of those layoffs, brought on by COVID-19,

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Silicon Valley restructuring veteran says his firm is winding down up to 3 startups a day

Marty Pichinson gets called a lot of things: Silicon Valley’s undertaker, its terminator, a grave digger. These aren’t meant as slights; Pichinson is the founder of Sherwood Partners, a re

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Will there be lung damage following recovery from COVID-19?

Recently, as more and more COVID-19 patients have fully recovered and discharged, everyone has begun to pay attention to whether the disease will have long-term effects on the body and whether the

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Too early to say China is source of COVID-19: Cambridge geneticist

04:43 A lot of people online are blaming China for bring about the coronavirus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic across the world.But the logic behind their blame can be fragile, as it

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Israeli president rejects request for coalition extension

Israel’s president on Sunday turned down a request from Blue and White party leader Benny Gantz for a two-week extension to form a new coalition government.The announce

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Will recovered COVID-19 patients have to deal with lung damage?

What happens after a COVID-19 patient fully recovers and is discharged from hospital? Medical attention is now turning to the potential long-term effects of the novel coronavirus on the health of

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FIFA chief warns against re-starting football too early

FIFA President Gianni Infantino visits El Salvador, November 20, 2019. /VCG FIFA president Gianni Infantino has warned against re-starting football too early amid the coronavirus pandemic, te

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U.S. military failing COVID-19 fight shows its transformation dilemma

The 265th Infectious Control Georgia Army National Guard enters Canterbury Court, a senior living facility to disinfect the building during the coronavirus outbreak, in Atlanta, U.S., April 10, 2

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West Ham, Southampton players agree to defer wages

West Ham United's Declan Rice (L) and Southampton's Ryan Bertrand (R) during the Premier League match at London Stadium, February 29, 2020. /VCG West Ham United have become the second Premier

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New study starts to quantify undetected COVID-19 cases in U.S.

A new study has begun recruiting at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to determine how many adults in the United States without a confirmed history of COVID