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After recently overhauling a “glitch” in the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Biden administration is now addressing another issue plaguing the American health care system: medical debt. On Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris announced the administration’s four-step plan aimed at increasing consumer protections for Americans billed for health care costs. These measures include holding medical providers and debt collectors “accountable for harmful practices,” reducing the role medical debt… Source link

Google will help its Cloud users save energy and reduce emissions by providing new tools to let them manage energy use from their idle projects. Driving the news: Google on Wednesday introduced the Carbon Sense suite. It’s a collection of features that aims to help companies quantify and report their emissions, as well as reduce them. Zoom in: The company says its “Active Assist” feature will allow customers to spot their energy-intensive idle projects and help manage them better to reduce… Source link

Google is reducing its long-standing 30 percent cut, which it takes from each Play Store digital purchase for all Android developers around the world, on the first $1 million they make on the digital storefront each year, starting on July 1st. According to Google, that change means that 99 percent of Android developers that “that sell digital goods or services” will see a 50 percent reduction in fees. Google’s news follows Apple’s announcement of a reduced 15 percent fee last… Source link

Improvements to how people can store, access, and edit Microsoft Office-formatted files in Google Workspace apps means that you may no longer need as many Office apps as in the past. Image: Andy Wolber/TechRepublic I’ve worked with organizations that have used Google Workspace… Source link

As the city of San Jose and Google move toward transforming the city’s downtown, residents are casting wary eyes on their plans to reduce car traffic and address homelessness in the area. Downtown Councilmember Raul Peralez, whose district encompasses downtown, hosted a community meeting for San Jose’s Diridon Station Area Plan (DSAP) and Google’s Downtown West project on Wednesday. It marked the beginning of the city’s public outreach for the plan in 2021, as well as the end of an… Source link

Google will trial a new security feature in Gmail that shows a brand’s logo as an avatar to help you know an email is genuine, the company has announced. The functionality uses the Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) standard, whose working group Google joined last year, and will be tested with a limited number of senders in the coming weeks. According to Google, authentication with BIMI can make recipients more confident about the source of an email, which scammers try… Source link