This week, Apple hit $1 trillion U.S. market capitalization, the first publicly traded and non-governmentally sponsored company to do so.

Apple reached this benchmark while in a contested marketplace and without being #1 in phone or laptop sales.

Hard to fathom.

Here is a peek at what I've been reading lately. These are the links I saved this week.

Hope you find some interesting and enjoyable tidbits.

Let me know if you read something I'd like … Or if there are other sources I should add to my weekly reading.

Thanks.

Lighter Links:

• Trump's Space Force is Real, and Here are the Reported Details.(CNet)
• How Trump Could Be like Reagan. (New York Times)
• Facebook Identifies an Active Political Influence Campaign Using Fake Accounts. (New York Times)
• The Emotionally Intelligent Way to Resolve Disagreements Faster.(FastCompany)
• Trivago Puts Algorithms Ahead of Ego for AI Success (VB Live).(VentureBeat)
• Airfare-prediction App Hopper Flies past 30 Million Installs, Helped by AI. (VentureBeat)
• Beginner's Guide to Game Theory. (HackerNoon)
• Naked Labs's 3-D Body Scanner Shows You the Naked Truth. (Wired)
• CRISPR Creates New Species with Single Giant Chromosome. (Tech Review)
• Scientists Explain Why You Can't Stop Going Back to the Same Places. (Inverse)
• How Silicon Valley Became a Den of Spies. (Politico)
• It's 90 Degrees in the Arctic Circle this Week. Here's Why. (Mashable)
• What's the Difference between AI and Machine Learning? (Oracle)
• Incredible Discovery Made inside Great Pyramid of Giza. (NYPost)
• This Secret IPhone Code Boosts Cell Reception. (Southern Living)
• Teenager Finds Classical Alternative to Quantum Recommendation Algorithm. (Quanta Magazine)
• Blockchain, Once Seen as a Corporate Cure-All, Suffers Slowdown.(Bloomberg)
• What Does It Take to Put a Waterfall on a Skyscraper? (Wired)
• Here's Johnny: Manziel to Start for Alouettes. (ESPN)
• Why France is Banning Smartphones at School Just as the U.S. is Letting More Students Use Them. (Fortune)

Market-Related Links

• Four Hedge Fund Managers Top $1 Billion in Pay as the Industry Rebounds. (Hedgeco)
• Artificial Intelligence and the Banking Industry's $1 Trillion Opportunity. (TheFinancialBrand)
• Asset Managers Turn to Emerging Technologies as Regulatory Dust Settles. (InstitutionalAssetManager)
• Is the Key to Beating the Market Written in the Stars? (Bloomberg)
• 5 Behavioral Biases that Infect an Investor's P&L. (SeeItMarket)
• Nobel Prize Winner Joins Blockchain Startup to Fix Smart Contracts.(Forbes)
• Developing Bitcoin Algorithmic Trading Strategies. (TradersMagazine)
• A Perspective on Secular Bull and Bear Markets.(AdvisorPerspectives)
• Chase Cardless Apple Pay Support Now Live at Nearly 16,000 ATMs Nationwide. (9to5Mac)
• Apple is Becoming a Formidable Fintech Company. (Quartz)
• Great News for Bulls: the Stock Market Just Did Something It Hasn't Done in 60 Years. (MarketWatch)
• 4 Financial Savants Warn about the Great Crash of 2020. (Forbes)
• S&P 500 Futures Trading Update: Overhead Resistance Looms.(SeeItMarket)
• The World's Fastest-Growing Economy Looks like It's Got Momentum.(Hedgeco)
• What the Stock Market Did during the Greatest Achievement in Human History. (ElliottWave)
• Tech Bulls Concerned If this Support Breaks! (Kimble Charting Solutions)
• Hedge Funds Extend Record Short Positions across U.S. Bond Curve.(Hedgeco)
• 5 Ways the Fintech Industry Will Support Farming. (FinExtra)
• North Korean Economy Suffered Sharpest Drop in 2 Decades, South Says. (NPR)
• Will Lockheed Martin Change the World with Its New Fusion Reactor?(Forbes)

Let me know what you think.

Thanks.

– Howard