Ripple CTO David Schwartz has opposed Elon Musk’s move to charge new users “a small fee” before engaging posts on X (formerly Twitter). X Daily News, an account dedicated to reporting the latest developments about Musk’s social media platform, sparked the conversation by uncovering a freshly updated policy concerning user…

UnitedHealth Group reported better-than-expected revenue in its first-quarter results on Tuesday, though the company is still dealing with the fallout from the cyberattack on its subsidiary Change Healthcare.Here’s how the company did:Earnings: $6.91 per share adjusted, which may not compare with the $6.61 expected by analysts, according to LSEG.Revenue: $99.8…

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By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) – Minutes before 9 a.m., both Catherine Nestor, a New York City social worker late for a jury duty summons, and Donald Trump, the first former U.S. president to be put on trial, were heading for Manhattan’s criminal courthouse. Trump was in the back of a large black Chevrolet Suburban with bullet-proof windows, riding downtown in a motorcade from his penthouse in his Fifth Avenue skyscraper, Trump Tower, for a trial beginning on Monday with jury selection. Nestor was on foot, joining a throng of New Yorkers blocked by a maze of metal police…

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The Biden administration will award up to $6.4 billion in grants to South Korea’s Samsung Electronics to expand its chip production in central Texas as part of a broader effort to boost US chipmaking, the Department of Commerce said on Monday. The funding from the 2022 Chips and Science Act will support…