Very impressive.

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The iMore Show 350 happened, and Peter was there.

Apple’s announced when the keynote will be for WWDC. No big surprise, it’s happening that Monday morning.

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Square, the payments startup that’s competing with major credit card companies, is now open for business in Japan.

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This looks like a promising app from Luc Vandal. You will also need to download and install an app on your Mac.

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Speaking of changing the guitar industry.

Grover Jackson is one of the pioneers of modern guitars. If I could go pick up any guitar today, it would be one made by Grover.

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Longreads:

…what if you never got into sci-fi in the first place? Where would you start?

Since its inception, speculative fiction has worked as social commentary, satire, and a creative answer to the question “What if?” Here are my personal picks to get you started.

If you or anyone you know would like to get into SciFi, you won’t go too far wrong with this

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I wonder what all those people that heckled Apple Maps will say when they see this.

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I don’t think being the perfect device for stalkers is what Samsung was going for, but who knows.

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While remodeling his newly purchased home in Elbow Lake, Minn., David Gonzalez noticed something unusual amid the old newspapers that had been used as wall insulation.

It was a copy of Action Comics No. 1 from 1938, the very first comic to feature the granddaddy of all superheroes, Superman.

I’m going to rip apart my house.

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AnandTech has posted a preliminary analysis of the Xbox One’s hardware and compared it to the PS4.

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Cody Brown writing on how the New York Times sent him a cease and desist for showing how to replicate “Snow Fall” and then demanded he not even mention their name on his site.

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Just when you think we got rid of the RIM co-CEOs, Mike Lazaridis comes back.

BlackBerry (BBRY) founder Mike Lazaridis said he’s confident that users of iPhones and other devices will embrace the company’s BlackBerry Messenger platform, which will be offered on rival phones later this year.

“BBM is by far the most compelling wireless experience and wireless social-networking environment,” Lazaridis, who stepped down as co-chief executive officer in early 2012, said yesterday at the Bloomberg Canada Economic Summit in Toronto.

GO AWAY!

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Neil Hughes:

Despite growing competition from other tablets, Apple’s iPad still accounts for a whopping 89.28 percent of e-commerce website traffic, and also rakes in more money on a per-user basis than any other platform.

Where the hell are all these Samsung tablets I keep hearing about?

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That is very impressive.

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He is working on the marketing team under Apple’s global marketing chief Phil Schiller, according to sources.

Michael is one of the good guys. Congrats.

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Om Malik:

HTC was the shining star during the early days of Android. Now it is reeling under the pressure of cheap Androids, a dominant Samsung and a management disarray. It’s a damn shame, as the new HTC One is actually a nice device.

I thought it would do better than it has.

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Jon Hicks isn’t happy with Adobe’s decision.

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Wow. Much respect.