Siri, What is "World Domination"? - Weekly Reading Links - August 3rd, 2018

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