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Amazon will deliver packages to the trunk of your Ford or Lincoln
Instead of Amazon packages lingering by your front stoop just begging to be snatched, you can give Amazon delivery folks access to your vehicle for a safer storage spot until you can pick up the delivery. After placing a delivery shipment, the Amazon personnel is required to double-check that the vehicle is locked. Then, the Amazon Key app will link your Amazon Prime account with your FordPass ... [Full Article...]
EPA reaffirms glyphosate safe for users as court cases grow
He has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a cancer of the immune system after using the weed killer to kill poison oak and invasive plants on his 56-acre property over the course of 30 years. Monsanto developed Roundup as the first glyphosate-based weed killer, but it is no longer patent-protected and many other versions are available. Last month, Edwin Hardeman, 70, of Santa Rosa, California , won a case... [Full Article...]
Eric Schmidt and Diane Greene to leave Alphabet's board of directors
Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene discusses bringing customers like Target on board at Cloud Next 2018. Android Authority reached out to Alphabet regarding Schmidt's imminent departure, but didn't hear back by press time. The board has come under scrutiny because of a shareholder lawsuit filed in January that said directors had neglected their fiduciary duties by approving massive exit packages fo... [Full Article...]
U.S. consumer spending surges 0.9
With the big rise in spending and the increase in incomes, the household saving rate fell to 6.5% of after-tax income in March, the lowest level since November when it was 6.2%. The 1.5 percent year-over-year increase in consumer prices was up from a 1.3 percent 12-month gain in February but still well below the Fed's target. [Full Article...]
Cost of scams up 43 per cent in 2018: ACCC
The ACCC has been working with banks, financial intermediaries and online classified sites to disrupt scams, "but this year we, along with the ACMA and ACSC, would also like to see social media platforms and telecommunications providers doing more to limit the ability of scammers to connect with victims", Ms Rickard said. [Full Article...]
'Huge shortage' of affordable rental housing
Only two rental listings across Australia were affordable for the 500,000 single people on the Newstart allowance last month, a new report suggests. Only 317 of the homes - or 0.5 per cent - would be affordable for a single person receiving the disability support pension, compared to 0.72 per cent of rental housing being available for the group a year ago. [Full Article...]
Australian LNG terminal granted USD175m
The NSW Government has given planning approval for Australian Industrial Energy to construct the gas terminal at Port Kembla. In June 2018, the NSW Government declared the PKGT proposal Critical State Significant Infrastructure (CSSI) because of its importance to NSW's future security and reliability of gas supply. [Full Article...]
Huawei denies report about hidden 'backdoors' in its software
Vodafone, the world's second-biggest mobile operator, said it had found security vulnerabilities in two products and that both incidents, first reported by Bloomberg , had been resolved quickly. Now it should be stressed that this is still far from the smoking gun evidence of inherent security vulnerability the U.S. claims to have and which Huawei wants to see. [Full Article...]