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Image: Apple Soon, Apple will let businesses customize how they appear in emails and phone calls on the iPhone. Apple announced on Wednesday how companies using its Business Connect tool can add their brand name and logo in ways that will pop up in iPhone apps used for email, phone calls, and payments. Apple first introduced Business Connect last year as a way for businesses to claim listings across Maps, Messages, Wallet, Siri, and its other apps. Each registered business can confirm its info is accurate and add additional details like photos or special offers. Collecting verified, up-to-date business information could be useful for Apple if it ever launches its own search engine or inside features for Apple Intelligence instead of sending users... Continue reading…

Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge; Getty Images JD Vance is, by his own admission, “plugged into a lot of weird right-wing subcultures.” His much-mocked comments about childless cat ladies and unassimilated Italian immigrants were made on a “masculinist” podcast. He doesn’t eat seed oils, a dietary restriction du jour on the extremely online right. When he was nominated to be former President Donald Trump’s running mate, his X following list included Bronze Age Pervert and Raw Egg Nationalist, two pseudonymous right-wing bodybuilders who often promote eugenics and the “great replacement” conspiracy theory. But perhaps no one online has shaped Vance’s thinking more than the neoreactionary blogger Curtis Yarvin, a former programmer with ties to Vance’s friend and benefactor Peter Thiel. ... Continue reading…

New research from Syria’s Tel Hama, a town at the edge of the Ebla Kingdom, shows that 4,500-years-ago, at the time of the Early Bronze Age, two-thirds of the pottery was made by children, starting at the ages of seven and eight! The ancient craft and other kinds of industrial enterprises used child labor practices, showing a historical continuity between relatively modern industrial practices, and those far predating industrial times. The team of archaeologists from Tel Aviv University and the National Museum in Copenhagen conducted a detailed analysis of 450 pottery vessels from Tel Hama. This research was supported by the Independent Research Fund Denmark as part of the project titled 'Ordinary Lives in Extraordinary Times: A New Perspective on the Earliest Urban Societies in Bronze Age Syria.' Were the Lost Ten Tribes of Israel Ever Lost? The Powerful Assyrians, Rulers of Empires Goblets (top) and miniature vessels (bottom) from Hama Period J. (Stephen Lumsden/National Museum of Denmark/Childhood in the Past) Read moreSection: ArtifactsAncient TechnologyNewsHistory & ArchaeologyRead Later 

Two key prosecutors in special counsel Jack Smith's office have left the classified documents case against former President Donald Trump and returned to their previous roles, The New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter.

Former President Donald Trump increased his lead over Vice President Kamala Harris in the battleground state of Georgia, according to the most recent poll released Wednesday by Quinnipiac.T

A Minnesota school district has banned a police officer from working as a substitute teacher after a series of "racially harmful" actions that officials say included putting a student on the ground for a reenactment of the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis officer.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose Wednesday, as Wall Street's three benchmark indexes ended higher, weathering declines in megacap tech shares thanks to small-caps gains and financial shares buoyed by strong earnings.

The owner of the Kansas City Chiefs said Wednesday that he has no issue with kicker Harrison Butker forming a political action committee designed to encourage Christians to vote for what the PAC describes as "traditional values."