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In 2014, the Northeast Utilities Company in Connecticut — now known as Eversource Energy — allegedly laid off around 200 of its American tech workers and replaced them with low-wage foreigners admitted on H-1B guest worker visas.

Amazon set a quarterly earnings record of $1 a share on $35.7 billion in sales last quarter, but traders sent the stock plunging over 7% Friday after the e-commerce company missed Wall Street’s earnings estimates by 36 percent.

The 7th Circuit Court will finally address the use of warrantless cell-site simulators, known as stingrays, in regards to the Fourth Amendment. Believe it or not, this is the first time any federal appellate court has touched the matter.

Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto is ranked among the top three most frequently assigned texts at universities and colleges, and Marx is the most assigned economist in college courses.

Check out the new environments players will battle through in Dying Light: The Following, the massive new expansion to 2015’s open-world zombie survival game Dying Light.

During a third quarter earnings report call, Electronic Arts CFO Blake Jorgensen may have revealed sales numbers that Microsoft has being doing its best to hide.

Facebook’s stock jumped by 15.5 percent, or $35.3 billion, after the company announced it now has over 1 billion daily users on average, and control half of all social media accounts on the planet.

Out of the 50 most dangerous cities in the world, an incredible 43 of them are located in Central or South America, according to a study released by Mexico’s Citizens’ Council for Public Security and Criminal Justice.

Bernie Sanders’ campaign pink-slipped their National Data Director for his role in last month’s controversial voter data breach, then promptly claimed that the DNC was personally involved in the scandal. Now they’re questioning the motives of Microsoft’s partnership with the Democratic and Republican parties for the upcoming Iowa Caucuses.

As the leading voice of militant atheists, Richard Dawkins has spent much of the last few decades battling Christians, Muslims, and deity-worshippers of every denomination. But now he has a new fanatical opponent: the secular dogmatists of the regressive left.

With observers fixated on its tumbling stock price, Twitter has sneaked out a new user agreement. The document is twenty-five pages long and written in legalese, so we at Breitbart Tech have decided to translate its most important elements for ordinary people.

Panhandling has gone high tech in Detroit, with one man taking handouts on a smart phone with a credit card reader.

The latest DLC for MMORPG The Elder Scrolls Online will introduce the Thieves Guild and task the player with rebuilding the group.

FunCom, developer of MMORPGs Age of Conan and The Secret World, unveiled Conan Exiles today, an open-world survival game set in the Conan the Barbarian universe and coming to Early Access summer 2016.

Song of the Deep, the new game from Insomniac Games, developer of the Ratchet & Clank series, Resistance, and Sunset Overdrive, casts players as Merryn, a young woman who must explore the depths of the ocean to find her lost father.

The Financial Times takes a look at the under-reported international tax crisis, which could spiral into a complete meltdown due to cases involving Google, Apple, and Amazon.

Good Old Games (GOG) is dipping into Early Access, and they’re doing it in the most consumer-friendly manner possible.

Once considered to be the assumptive Republican Party nominee for president in 2016, Jeb Bush’s donors now complain he is “burning money” with lavish spending on fancy hotels, fundraisers at the Four Seasons and St. Regis, and private planes – all while his poll numbers have plummeted and some GOP operatives are wondering whether he should remain in the race.

Google’s London-based DeepMind artificial intelligence has beaten Fan Hui at Go, the game’s European champion. It’s also won more than 99% of its games against competing AIs.

The former Respect Member of Parliament George Galloway has been granted permission to sue Google over a YouTube film of a protest where he was described as a “tramp” and “scumbag” who supported Islamic terrorists beheading British and American citizens. George Galloway

Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) hackers have vowed to take revenge against the United States for a drone strike last August that killed the jihadist group’s top hacker Junaid Hussain.

In a Steam news update posted to the Five Nights at Freddy’s 4 page, series creator Scott Cawthon has announced that RPG spin-off Five Nights at Freddy’s World has been removed from Steam.

This weekend saw LAN organizer DreamHack take its tour to Leipzig for the first time, and the event featured some of the best Counter-Strike teams in the world and produced some excellent games. Unfortunately, an incident disrupted the broadcast, one that calls into question security at DreamHack-run events.

Having reached a compromise with its drivers, ride-hailing company Lyft has averted a class action lawsuit and avoided driver classification changes which would drastically affect their business model.

Sean Ludwick, a 43-year old millionaire from Long Island charged with killing his passenger in a drunk-driving incident, allegedly made a rather ill-conceived attempt to skip bail. He laid his plans with Google searches such as “How do fugitives escape?”, “Why do fugitives get caught?”, “Fleeing from justice – what can happen?”, and “Does Venezuela extradite to the U.S.?”

Former Twitter product VP Kevin Weil, like millions of users, has switched from Twitter to Instagram.

Despite announcing record quarterly sales through the end of 2015, the market valuation of Apple Inc.’s stock is down $254 billion since this summer. The company has now admitted revenue through March will be down by 10-15 percent as the iPhone sales stall.

Google has a brilliant solution to Europe’s refugee crisis: they’re giving away free Chromebooks. With repatriation still a controversial option, the Silicon Valley giant no doubt hopes that foisting their painfully slow hardware on immigrants will scare at least some of them back to Syria.

Battlefleet Gothic: Armada is a real-time strategy game set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe that features massive space battles between the forces of Chaos, the Imperium, Eldar, and Orks.

(Reuters) — Automakers’ latest projections for rapid growth of China’s green car market have added to concerns of worsening smog as the uptake of electric vehicles powered by coal-fired grids races ahead of a switch to cleaner energy.

Dutch cops are policing anti-mass migration comments, even threatening social media users of “sedition” for opposing government policies. The news has emerged after police paid visits to warn multiple people who made anti-mass migration comments on social media, reports DW.com. Mark Jongeneel,

The desperation plays keep coming from Twitter, including a new marketing executive, while also promising to hide her marketing efforts from “elite” users of the platform.

Pixelmage Games has decided to cancel the Hero’s Song Kickstarter, just days after adding to the rewards offered at each tier of donation.

Russian MP Oleg Nilov of the Fair Russia Party wants the government to have the ability to shut off the internet in Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) regions across Syria and Iraq.