Former Slashdot contributor Nick Kolakowski is now a senior editor at Dice Insights, where he’s just published a list of the top programming skills employers were looking for during the last 30 days. If you’re a software developer on the hunt for a new gig (or you’re merely curious about what programming skills employers are…

Rakuten’s limited-time deal rivals some of the holiday’s best Black Friday pricing. …read more Source:: CNet

Wait, what? Yep, Invroheat’s nifty infrared space heaters double as wall art. Plus, the lowest Pixel 4 price yet! …read more Source:: CNet

You won’t find a better price on Apple’s updated fully wireless earbuds. …read more Source:: CNet

“The first core stage for the Space Launch System, intended to get us back to the moon by 2024, has left Boeing’s manufacturing center in New Orleans for launch readiness test,” writes long-time Slashdot reader Excelcia: This is very good news for the troubled project which has been plagued by delays and cost overruns. Back…

What the phones at the annual tech confab tell us about some design and price trends for 5G, foldable and gaming phones this year. …read more Source:: CNet

Charter Comunications’ Spectrum cable service includes a home security service, and — whoops. No it doesn’t. “Spectrum customers who are also users of the company’s home security service are about a month away from being left with a pile of useless equipment that in many cases cost them hundreds of dollars,” reports Gizmodo: On February…

A field trip and a peek at the space that’s opening later this year. …read more Source:: CNet

Linux scripters usually know about sed — the stream editor. It has a simple job: transform text as it whizzes from input to output. So if you wanted to solve a maze, this wouldn’t be the tool you’d think to use, right? Well, if you were [xsot], you’d disagree. You build a maze using spaces…

An American scientist who won the Nobel Prize for chemistry just retracted their latest paper on Monday. Professor Arnold had shared the prize with George P Smith and Gregory Winter for their 2018 research on enzymes, reports the BBC (in an article shared by omfglearntoplay): It has been retracted because the results were not reproducible,…