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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Washington sets aside $240 million for pilot shortages as busy summer travel season starts  Yahoo Finance Source link

Google today announced it’s expanding its user choice billing pilot, which allows Android app developers to use other payment systems besides Google’s own. The program will now become available to new markets, including the U.S., Brazil and South Africa, and Bumble will now join Spotify as one of the pilot testers. Google additionally announced Spotify will now begin rolling out its implementation of the program starting this week. The company had first announced its intention to… Source link

The so-called “summer of travel hell” is behind us, but the ongoing national pilot shortage is still causing plenty of headwinds for the industry. Estimates vary, but one government estimate projects a shortfall of 18,000-plus pilots each year for the next decade. Mesa Airlines, a regional airline that flies for both United and American as well as cargo carrier DHL Express, says his company has a solution. CEO Jonathan Ornstein told Yahoo Finance his company is rolling out a program to… Source link

Google is launching a pilot program to keep emails from political campaigns from going to users’ spam folders this week, the company told Axios. Why it matters: Gmail users may start seeing a lot more political emails in their inboxes, partly a result of Google bowing to pressure from conservatives who claimed the company marked Republican emails as spam more often than others. What’s happening: Google asked the Federal Election Commission in June if a program that would let campaigns emails… Source link

Google plans to run a pilot to permit daily fantasy sports apps and rummy games on Play Store in India, addressing a request from the local community that has long expressed frustration at the Android-maker for not welcoming services on its store in the world’s second-largest market that it allows in many parts of the world. Google said it will begin a one-year pilot starting September 28 to permit the aforementioned apps on Play Store in India. India-incorporated firms looking to… Source link

The New York Times A Fourth of July Symbol of Unity That May No Longer Unite SOUTHOLD, N.Y. — The American flag flies in paint on the side of Peter Treiber Jr.’s potato truck, a local landmark parked permanently on County Route 48, doing little more, he thought, than drawing attention to his family’s farm. Until he tried to sell his produce. At a local greenmarket where he sells things such as wild bergamot, honey and sunflowers, he had trouble striking a deal until, he said, he let his… Source link

The note left by First Officer Chris Dennis in a Delta plane parked at the Victorville Airport. Delta Air Lines A Delta first officer discovered an early-pandemic letter left by a fellow pilot on a parked aircraft. The note, which was written in March 2020, predicted there would be “light … at the end of the tunnel.” “Amazing how fast it changed,” First Officer Chris D. wrote more than 400 days ago. Visit Insider’s homepage for more stories. As the world starts to creep back to normality after… Source link

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center is the second major health system to sign on with Google to pilot its controversial clinical search tool. The technology is designed to offer clinicians a longitudinal view of patient records and the ability to quickly search through those records through a single secure tool, the health system said in a press release. The tech giant and its first health system partner, Ascension, faced widespread criticism more than a year ago after news broke about a… Source link

Dive Brief: St. Louis-based hospital chain Ascension is expanding the pilot of a Google EHR tool allowing clinicians to search for data within patient records, the next step in its partnership with the technology giant. The two linked in 2018 to work on leveraging Ascension’s clinical data to create an integrated, longitudinal record of patient care and develop other health tools. The partnership was made public in late 2019 and immediately stirred controversy,… Source link

More than a year after facing widespread criticism over its patient data-sharing arrangement with hospital chain Ascension, Google on Tuesday unveiled new details and a name for a core product of the partnership. The tool — a kind of Google search for electronic medical records — is called Care Studio and will now be available to roughly 250 clinicians in pilot mode. The software that lets clinicians search through reams of patient health record data without needing to know precisely… Source link