Amazon heralded its shifting strategies to help sellers expand with new tools during its two-day Accelerate Seller Conference this week. The e-commerce giant announced its growing success with American small and medium-sized businesses empowerment this year, its glowing Sellers Report, and the results of its unique CRM tools for SMBs.http://dlvr.it/SB61rN Continue reading Amazon Celebrates SMB Sellers’ Successes, Introduces New Tools at Virtual Event

Washington (AFP) Oct 21, 2021 US intelligence services said Thursday for the first time that climate change poses wide-ranging threats to the United States’ national security and stability around the world. More extreme weather “will increasingly exacerbate a number of risks to US national security interests, from physical impacts that could cascade into security challenges, to how countries respond to the climate challehttp://dlvr.it/SB5Lc9 Continue reading US intelligence services see security threat in climate change

Warsaw (AFP) Oct 21, 2021 Four people were killed and six injured in Poland on Thursday as high winds caused disruption in the south of the country, the state fire service said. Firefighters said they had been called out 3,200 times by 1230 GMT. All four deaths occurred in the Lower Silesia region. One person was killed when a van was blown off the road … Continue reading 4 killed by high winds in Poland

Hong Kong (AFP) Oct 21, 2021 Hong Kong passed a new law on Thursday allowing overseas-trained doctors to practice without passing a local licensing exam, a move criticised by some who fear it will lead to less qualified medics, especially from the Chinese mainland. The government says the law is meant to tackle the international finance hub’s chronic shortage of doctors. The city has roughly … Continue reading Hong Kong to admit more doctors trained abroad

Los Angeles (AFP) Oct 21, 2021 The mysterious deaths of a family and their dog on a California hiking trail that baffled investigators for weeks was down to excessive heat, the local sheriff said Thursday. The bodies of Briton John Gerrish, 45, his wife Ellen Chung, 31, and their one-year-old daughter, Miju, were discovered a short way from a trailhead in the Sierra National Forest. … Continue reading California hiker family’s mystery deaths ‘due to heat’: sheriff

A new cyber threat group called Proxy Phantom is using sophisticated credential stuffing attack methods to take over customer accounts for U.S.-based e-commerce merchants. The latest research from digital trust and safety firm Sift demonstrates fraudsters’ relentless innovation and reinforces retailers’ need to double down on fraud protection as the holiday shopping season rapidly approaches.http://dlvr.it/SB2G0l Continue reading New Cyber Theft Group Uses Revitalized Tricks To Target Online Merchants

Washington DC (UPI) Oct 19, 2021 Virtually all scientific analyses agree that climate change is mainly caused by humans, a survey of more than 88,000 studies published Tuesday by Environmental Research Letters found. More than 99.9% of the 88,125 climate-related studies published between 2012 and November of last year concluded that warming temperatures, increased frequency of extreme weather events and polar ice meltihttp://dlvr.it/S9xgXs Continue reading Analysis: 99.9% of climate studies agree that humans are causing climate change

Washington (AFP) Oct 20, 2021 The US group 3M, which among other things manufactures anti-Covid protective face masks, said Tuesday it will pay $99 million to settle complaints related to health and the environment. “3M has reached a collaborative agreement to resolve ongoing litigation and negotiations related to per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) near 3M’s Decatur, Alabama facility,” the company said in a statehttp://dlvr.it/S9xgXk Continue reading 3M to pay $99 mn to settle dispute over harmful chemicals

Paris (AFP) Oct 20, 2021 The world’s nations are currently planning to produce more than double the amount of coal, oil and gas consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, the United Nations said Wednesday. Ten days before a climate summit that is being billed as key to the viability of the Paris Agreement temperature goals, the UN’s Environment Programme said that government … Continue reading Planned fossil fuel output shatters 1.5C climate target: UN

Cannes, France (SPX) Oct 05, 2021 Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67 %) and Leonardo (33 %), has been selected by ESA in the frame of the Horizon 2020 program, for a new contract to design and develop a prototype of the next generation of ground station for the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), called NLES-Next (Navigation Land Earth Station). The … Continue reading Thales Alenia Space to build prototype EGNOS ground station for ESA