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OPT is being described in Washington as a loophole, not a ladder. For Indian families, the US degree has rarely been just a degree. It is a sequence you pay for and plan around: Admission, visa, internship, graduation, and then a post-study runway long enough to recover costs, build a résumé, and attempt the H-1B lottery without falling off a bureaucratic cliff. That runway is Optional Practical Training (OPT).Now the runway is being described in Washington as a loophole, not a ladder. In 2025, the US debate has moved beyond generic immigration noise into something more targeted: A political and…

You don’t usually meet a hardware Bitcoin wallet founder who could just as easily be lecturing on synapses and brain plasticity. Yet that is exactly the lane shift taken by Dr. Douglas Bakkum, a former neuroscience researcher, and the BitBox team, creating a Swiss hardware wallet company born out of a university lab. He tells me his fork-in-the-road moment was simple: become a professor with a boss and a tenure committee, or build something that might actually change how people hold money. .cwp-coin-chart svg path { stroke-width: 0.65 !important; } .cwp-coin-widget-container .cwp-graph-container.positive svg path:nth-of-type(2) { stroke: #008868 !important; } .cwp-coin-widget-container…

Enjoyed this article? Share it with your friends! Bakkt Holdings, a company that builds tools for digital asset payments, said it plans to buy Distributed Technologies Research, a firm that provides systems for handling stablecoin and regular currency transactions. On January 12, Bakkt stated in a press release that it would issue over 9 million shares of its Class A common stock to the shareholders of Distributed Technologies Research.According to the company, this step will help strengthen its systems for managing stablecoin payments and prepare it to launch new digital banking services with several partners in the coming months. Did…

The US Dollar Index outlook remains range-bound after a decline triggered by concerns about Fed independence. Markets await the release of US CPI data, which could influence the Fed’s monetary policy expectations. Technically, the index consolidates, but the overall trend remains constructive in the short term. The US Dollar Index is moving in a tight range as investors eye the December Consumer Price Index, remaining reluctant to take big positions before the inflation report. The index is hovering around the 99.00 mark after having its worst day in three weeks. This indicates a balance between slowing inflation and political uncertainty.…

Human­i­ty was already enjoy­ing motion pic­tures a cen­tu­ry ago. But the abil­i­ty to do so at home still lay a few decades in the future, and the abil­i­ty to pull up a movie on demand through a stream­ing ser­vice much fur­ther still. Young peo­ple in the twen­ty-twen­ties may be unable to fath­om how pre­vi­ous gen­er­a­tions got by with­out Net­flix and the like, but all of us, what­ev­er our age, may be curi­ous about what such plat­forms would have offered in the nine­teen-twen­ties. Now we can see for our­selves on Wik­i­Flix, a free stream­ing site that offers more than 4,000 pub­lic-domain…

By Katie Azevedo, M.Ed. If the only way you keep track of homework assignments is by checking your learning management system (LMS), you’re making one of the biggest school mistakes with the biggest consequences. That may sound dramatic, but I stand by the claim. In this post, I will reveal the true reason you’re overwhelmed with homework assignments (hint: it’s because you’re using your LMS as a homework management system), what true homework management looks like, and the one system that top students use to track and complete homework on time. The Basics of Homework Management Let’s start with definitions:…

24. Dan had initially envisioned five seasons for Schitt’s Creek, but changed his game-plan after, as he revealed, “We were given the opportunity to do two seasons, and I thought, ‘Okay, I can tell the end of this story in 28 episodes.'” 25. But he hasn’t ruled out the idea of returning to Schitt’s Creek or revisiting the Rose family in the future, explaining to EW, “I feel really confident that we’ve really mined everything we could. But the world doesn’t explode at the end of it. If there is something that comes up down the line that feels compelling…

“Sinners” and “Bel-Air” led the NAACP Image Awards when nominations were announced this morning on CBS. Ryan Coogler’s southern gothic vampire period piece nabbed a whopping 18 nods on the film side, while “Bel-Air,” which just aired its fourth season, was recognized 7 times in the television categories.  Founded in 1967, the NAACP Image Awards were established by Toni Vaz to honor talented Black creatives and the producers who carved out spaces for them. The first ceremony was held at the Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel. Over the decades, the awards have become a beacon of joy and excellence, expanding from…

Astraphobia, sering dikenal sebagai ketakutan terhadap petir dan guntur, adalah salah satu bentuk fobia yang mungkin terdengar umum, namun bagi penderitanya bisa menjadi pengalaman yang sangat menegangkan dan membatasi aktivitas sehari-hari. Istilah ini berasal dari bahasa Yunani, yaitu astrape yang berarti petir, dan phobos yang berarti ketakutan. Meskipun petir dan guntur adalah fenomena alam yang alami, bagi penderita astraphobia, suara guntur yang menggelegar atau kilatan petir yang tiba-tiba bisa memicu kepanikan ekstrem.Mengenal AstraphobiaFobia adalah jenis gangguan kecemasan yang ditandai oleh rasa takut yang intens dan irasional terhadap objek atau situasi tertentu. Dalam kasus astraphobia, ketakutan ini muncul setiap kali terjadi…

Source: Financial Times