Shades are on and futures require them. Apple's Chief Design Officer will leave later this year to form an independent design company with Apple as a client. Gone, but not really gone. Got it. In other Apple news, Apple Music now has 60 million subscribers and trails only Spotify, which has around 100 million subscribers. Tesla says a Model S fire in Shanghai on April 21 was caused by a single battery module and not any system defect. The module wasn't supplied by Panasonic, according to Tesla. My sources tell me that Panasonic supplies cells to Tesla. Tesla bundles them into modules, then into packs. No recall is order. Wondering if the big meeting in Vienna opened with the line: Hello, Vienna calling. (80s music reference) Or the meeting could close with: Goodnight Vienna. It appears that an episode of The Office has been re-done using everyday people and not actors. Nearly a hundred Colorado drivers this week followed a digital Pied Piper into an empty field where they all got stuck. A crash on a major road leading to the Denver airport caused many drivers to turn to Google Maps to find an alternative route. It seems the suggested route lead drivers to a dirt road that led to a muddy, empty field where cars got stuck. Sounds like many of the roads in my neck of the woods. At least nobody drove into a pond. Goldman Sachs is looking at digital currencies and conducting "extensive research" on tokenization -- turning currencies or assets into tradeable digital currencies or assets contained on a blockchain. What could possibly go wrong? SpaceX seeks to raise $314M in a new funding round aimed to go off at $214 per share, according to CNBC. Always good get updates on private companies. Taking the $314M and adding it to previous funding rounds this year of $486M and $536M, SpaceX has raised over $1B this year. It appears that the space business is rather pricey. My sources tell me that SpaceX will not be loaning Tesla any of the raised funds. Got it. Bitcoin goes up, Bitcoin goes down. Nobody seems to be able to cite a reason for the rise and fall of cryptocurrencies. Sure some folks guess, but there appears to no reason for the yo-yo that is Bitcoin. $GBTC. $RIOT is up over 7% pre-market after falling some 17% yesterday.via dcv.