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☆ Amazon's retail business is scrounging for spare change ahead of a tough holiday sales season by asking sellers for lump sums of cash and limiting inventory
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-16 | by ( Katherine Long | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The company has also instituted inventory and restock limits on third-party sellers. Amazon's representative said the new restock limits were intended "to ensure a successful holiday season." "Restock limits are designed to create more capacity for sellers who are using space efficiently," the person added. Another seller said he estimated that in two weeks he wouldn't have any more inventory left in Amazon warehouses because of Amazon's inventory and restock limits. Amazon sellers have said they are feeling increasingly squeezed by the e-commerce giant's fee structures.

☆ U.S., Allies Announce $20 Billion Package to Wean Indonesia Off Coal
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( Ed Ballard | Jon Emont | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Wealthy countries including the U.S. and some of the world’s biggest banks backed a $20 billion funding plan to steer Indonesia, the world’s largest coal exporter, toward renewables as part of efforts to help emerging economies decarbonize. The funding, announced at a meeting of G-20 leaders, is aimed at one of the thorniest climate challenges. Developing countries like Indonesia, India and South Africa say they can’t afford to quickly transition to renewable energy. But if they stick with fossil fuels, carbon emissions will rise as their economies grow.

☆ NASA crashes DART spacecraft into an asteroid, testing a tactic to bump space rocks away from Earth
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-26 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | Marianne Guenot | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

NASA's 1,376-pound probe traveled about 6.8 million miles before crashing into the asteroid, as part of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission. Scientists will be monitoring the trajectory of the asteroid, Dimorphos, which orbits a larger asteroid, Didymos. As the DART spacecraft flew closer, Dimorphos emerged as a separate point of light that grew larger and brighter. NASABelow, one of the last frames beamed at Earth from DRACO before the DART spacecraft ate it, showing several boulders on the asteroid surface. The DART mission operations team at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory erupted in applause after the probe's successful demise.

☆ Montana accepting transgender birth certificate changes
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +2 min

(AP) — The state health department has restored the ability for transgender people to apply to correct the gender marker on their Montana birth certificate after a judge blocked enforcement of a law that would have required them to have surgery first. The gender designation forms are available on the department’s website. Montana is required to process the applications after District Judge Michel Moses issued a temporary injunction against enforcing a state law that would have required transgender residents to have undergone a surgical procedure before changing the sex on their birth certificate. However, the state did not begin accepting applications and instead passed a rule saying that nobody could change the sex on their birth record unless there was a clerical error. No applications requesting a gender designation change had been returned to the state Vital Records department as of mid-day Thursday, Ebelt said.

Keep up to date on the latest of Trump's legal travails, both criminal and civil, with this guide to the ever-evolving Trump docket. The Issues: Trump's real estate and golf resort business is accused of giving its executives pricey perks and benefits that were never reported as income to taxing authorities. The issues: They say Donald Trump sicced his security guards on their peaceful, legal protest outside Trump Tower in 2015. Donald Trump, right, sits with his children, from left, Eric Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Ivanka Trump during a groundbreaking ceremony for the Trump International Hotel on July 23, 2014, in Washington. The Issues: Donald Trump is accused of promoting a scam multi-level marketing scheme on "The Celebrity Apprentice."

☆ NASA's unprecedented DART mission will intentionally slam a spacecraft into an asteroid next week
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-23 | by ( Paola Rosa-Aquino | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test will collide with an asteroid on September 26. NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 in November 2021, with the aim of nudging a space rock into a slightly tighter orbit around its companion asteroid. The $308 million spacecraft traveled 6.8 million miles from Earth to Dimorphos, a small asteroid orbiting the asteroid Didymos. NASA JPL DART Navigation TeamOn Monday, September 26, four hours before impact, DART will switch into autonomous mode, steering itself toward its target. An animation from behind as NASA's first planetary defense test mission, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, collides with the asteroid moonlet Dimorphos.

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