Assorted Links for Friday
- Services Steal the Show as Apple's Hardware Sales Plateau. Apple services are a $100-billion business. This led to record profitiability.
- The iPhone is the Key to Apple's Tightly Knit Ecosystem
- The futuristic inventions of the Islamic Golden Age
- Where cellphones help users save money, and pricey calls are now free (CSM)
- Seducing Socialists
- Inflation Erased U.S. Income Gains Last Year (WSJ)
- The MAHA Report
- Make Our Children Healthy Again Strategy Report
- Less wrong (A post by Scott Sumner, not the website)
- Why 7-Eleven and Other Convenience Stores in Japan Are So Special (NYT)
- NATO States Have Failed
- Assassination With No Limits
- Blunt tariffs undermine efforts to reshore high-tech manufacturing
- It's the typical peak of Atlantic hurricane season. Where are all the storms? (WP)
- The Hot Investment With a 3,000% Return? Pokeman Cards (WSJ)
- Health Insurance Costs for Businesses to Rise by Most in 15 Years (WSJ)
- Tesla is losing U.S. market share. And that's in the middle of an EV boom (WSJ MarketWatch)
- How AI Can Make Us Poorer
- Of "Emergencies" and "Tipping Points"
- Gravitational wave detector confirms theories of Einstein and Hawking: 'This is the clearest view yet of the nature of black holes'
- Fraudulent Publishing in the Mathematical Sciences
- Young America faces an economic crisis
- Robotic space rovers keep getting stuck. UW engineers have figured out why.