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Monday December 25th, 2017 day edition

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AT&T will begin to layoff and fire more than a thousand workers starting early next year, according to local reports.

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The announcement came days after the New York Post reported that the company "pink-slipped more than 700 DirecTV home installers.".

"How can you lay people off and then give them $1,000 and say that there’s going to be more jobs available?

Randall Stephenson, CEO of AT&T, said in a statement that the GOP's tax bill would improve the country's economy and the company's financial prospects.

This tax reform will drive economic growth and create good-paying jobs,” AT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson said, according to CNBC.

Last year, senior executives at AT&T told The New York Times that "shrinking the [company's] workforce by 30 percent is not out of the question.". »

Elon Musk's South Australian Battery Responded in Just 140 Milliseconds After a Coal-Fired Power Plant Failed

Authored by sciencealert.com

Elon Musk's giant lithium ion battery in South Australia has responded in record time to the first power failure since it was installed as a back up power source.

State Energy Minister Tom Koutsantonis says the investment in the battery has already proved its worth, exceeding expectations in its first test.

Last week, when the coal-fired Loy Yang power plant in Victoria tripped and went offline, the Tesla battery delivered 100 megawatts into the national electricity grid in 140 milliseconds. »

Enraged naked postal worker goes on killing spree, police say

Authored by foxnews.com

Relatives and friends of two Ohio postal workers slain by an enraged, naked coworker were at a loss to explain the violence that occurred Saturday morning.

Police said DeShaune Stewart, 24, of Columbus, was charged with killing his supervisor at a post office in Dublin, Ohio, and then killing the Dublin postmaster outside the Columbus apartment complex where she lived.

Stewart has been charged with aggravated murder for fatally shooting Herrera-Dempsey in Dublin and with murder for killing Ballard in Columbus, police said. »

Human Sexual Cycles are Driven by Culture and Match Collective Moods

Authored by nature.com

Moreover, the terms most associated with searches for “sex” in GT refer to direct interest in sex and pornography (Supplementary Table S1).

S1A and B), the Christmas holiday is uniquely associated with the highest peaks in sex-searches observed in these Northern countries.

To test these predictions, we extracted GT sex-search time-series data for all 129 countries for which GT offered consistent data. »