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Healthcare providers across the United States are struggling to get paid following the week-long ransomware outage at a key tech unit of UnitedHealth Group, with some smaller providers saying they are already running low on cash.Large hospital chains are also locked out of processing payments with some absorbing the upfront costs of being unable to collect, according to the American Hospital Association (AHA), which represents nearly 5,000 hospitals, healthcare systems, networks, and other providers.Reuters could not…

Hi, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s newsletter that highlights some of the more noteworthy moments in tech over the past few days. The holiday season is nigh upon us, but the tech industry waits for no one — on the horizon are IBM, AMD and Intel conferences, plus the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The news cycle won’t die down anytime soon, and rest assured we’ll continue doing our best to keep you informed. But I’m getting ahead of myself. A fair amount happened this week,…

Image: Ollie Upton/HBOHBO hasn’t been shy about trying to take the heat away from Amazon’s very popular Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power premiere, including a literal and figurative scorcher of a battle scene in last night’s episode. But it turns out House of the Dragon’s third episode, “Second of His Name,” has an arguably more important element, at least for Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin—it finally matched his vision for something the original series messed up.That something is the royal hunting party,…

India's new cryptocurrency tax has dealt a heavy blow to the country's crypto exchanges, adding to broader sectoral woes and sending trading volumes plunging by up to 90 percent. The 1 percent tax on Indian cryptocurrency trades from the start of this month has been a further disincentive for investors in a market where a burdensome regulatory regime and a 30 percent digital income tax had already knocked volumes by 60-70 percent, traders and industry executives said. "We are scraping the bottom of the barrel as far as…