The Red & Black is a 501c3 nonprofit. Please consider a one-time gift or become a monthly supporter. Cancel anytime. Over two weeks into a fall semester that’s been massively altered by COVID-19, the ...

Georgia Institute of Technology has announced a partnership with NOVID as a part of their strategy for keeping students and faculty safe from the virus as they reopen for the Fall semester. NOVID is ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has turned us all into amateur statisticians. How many tests are being performed? What’s the local infection rate? Is the rate of hospitalizations going up or down? What ...

The spread of COVID-19 is tough to trace and even tougher to predict, but researchers at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University created an early warning system to help protect you from the virus ...

PITTSBURGH — As you start to go back to work or head out to do some shopping, you might be wondering if the people you're coming in contact with are sick. Channel 11 told you about an app that a ...

A new app called NOVID aims to tell you how close COVID is to you — not geographically, but socially — using the idea of the “six degrees of separation.” Developed by a math professor and U.S. Math ...

Contact-tracing apps that make use of Bluetooth (BLE) to automatically detect when phones, and thus their users, are in close proximity are finally starting to become prevalent in various states ...