Programmer Moneyball: Challenging the Myth of Individual Programmer Productivity

Slashdot reader jbmartin6 summarizes a new article from Carnegie Mellon's Software Engineering Institute: An academic study challenges t...

The World's Largest Solar Telescope Snaps Its First Photograph

sciencehabit quotes Science magazine: A new close-up of the turbulent boiling plasma of the solar surface is the debut image of the largest ...

Go 1.15 Planning Will Not 'Try' Error Handling

The Go team is planning for a February release of Go 1.14, and "Per the process outlined in the Go 2, here we come! blog post, it is ag...

Joel Hodgson Tours America in His Final Live Shows With 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000'

With some help from his robot (puppet) friends, TV's Joel Hodgson will heckle the movies "Circus of Horrors" and "No Retr...

Spitzer Space Telescope Turns Out the Lights

Long-time Slashdot reader Kreuzfeld writes: Thursday marks the final mission of NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Conceived of as an infra...

First major discovery in hydroformylation in 50 years

Chemists have discovered a new cationic cobalt bisphosphine hydroformylation catalyst system that is highly active and extremely robust. f...

Should Huawei Just Abandon Android?

Due to a U.S. government ban on sales to Huawei, Google revoked its license for popular apps last spring (including Gmail and the Play Store...