That’s within $6 of the lowest price ever for this new, fourth-generation smart lock. …read more Source:: CNet

A cheap and effective ratcheting tap. Need to cut threads into a hole? A tool called a tap is what you need, and a hand-operated one like the one shown here to the side is both economical and effective. A tap’s cutting bit works by going into a pre-drilled hole, and it’s important to keep…

Whether you’re looking for a template or professional help, these resume tools have you covered. …read more Source:: CNet

Long-time Slashdot reader bsharma shares an announcement from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope site: Researchers found that small-scale concentrations of dark matter in clusters produce gravitational lensing effects that are 10 times stronger than expected. This evidence is based on unprecedently detailed observations of several massive galaxy clusters by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and the European…

This is not any ordinary year, but, for now, at least, we do have football to help keep our minds off our troubles. …read more Source:: ZDNet

After launching in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland, NearForm’s app based on Apple and Google technology is arriving in some US states next month. …read more Source:: CNet

ZDNet reports: The International Organization for Standardization’s (ISO) C++ group, Working Group 21 (WG21), has agreed upon the finalized version of ‘C++20’, the first major update to the 35 year-old programming language since C++17 from 2017… The 2020 release of C++ is huge by historical standards. Herb Sutter, a Microsoft engineer and long-time chair of…

You can stream Game 5 as Los Angeles looks to knock out Houston and advance to the Western Conference Finals. …read more Source:: CNet

Some industry experts argue that the time has come for business users to be able to steer their own destinies when it comes to application development. …read more Source:: ZDNet

“Multiple mega fires burning more than three million acres. Millions of residents smothered in toxic air. Rolling blackouts and triple-digit heat waves. “Climate change, in the words of one scientist, is smacking California in the face,” reports the New York Times. (Alternate URL here.) The crisis in the nation’s most populous state is more than…