New York's attorney general is investigating complaints that Apple mistreated customers of Asian descent at Gotham stores, demanding to see their passports, saying their English sucked and, worst of all, denying them precious, sweet iPads.

The demo iPads at Apple stores are like something out of The Andromeda Strain. The Daily News swabbed a couple and found staphylococcus aureus, "the most common cause of staph infections", as well as yeast and a rash-causing bacteria. [Gothamist]

Lest there be any doubt that Suri Cruise's life is better than yours: "Along with having over 100 pairs of shoes… 4-year-old Suri proves again she can keep up with adult trends—this time with her very own iPad."

Apple has sold more than two million iPads since the tablet computer debuted on April 3, freeing at least that many people from the oppressive shackles of pornography and the tyranny of Flash-based web video. [CNET]

The New York Post report today that the Justice Department has been calling "a handful of the country's biggest media and technology companies," to get their views on Apple. A prospect that cannot fill Steve Jobs with confidence.

When the GQ iPad app launched, a measly 365 people bought it. Probably by accident. Sister magazine Wired, however, sold 24,000 in their first 24 hours. Maybe because theirs is, you know, good and stuff. [NYT]

Who knew that a bit of Velcro attached to an iPad could result in a match made in tech Heaven? Here, the two products are used to make a car/motorcycle GPS device, a picture frame, a wall-mounted TV and more.

Amid criticism from advocates for the poor, Apple reversed a policy that saw a disabled woman turned away from an Apple Store while trying to buy an iPad with cash. Apple just never imagined this situation. Cash? Really?

If you think the iPad is just another e-reader, lots of smart people have been making fun things to change your mind. The folks at Breakfast New York used the iPad as a controller and front-camera for a helium blimp.

In your competitive Tuesday media column: the fashion mag ad race is heated, GQ manages to sell electric doo-dads to people somehow, Michael Wolff's beef parade marches on, and the NYT rocked by "getting a good political story" scandal.

Jimmy Fallon showed us another entry in Robert Pattinson's personal vlog, "Bothered", last night. He sure hates that iPad. No word yet on whether Jimmy will have to apologize like Ellen did.

A British fashion magazine has reportedly dubbed its iPad issue "the Iran edition" due to the requirement to remove nipples and other body parts to get content on Apple's tablet computer. Call this the "Apple chilling effect."

President Obama gave the commencement address at Hampton University on Sunday, encouraging the graduates of the historically-black school to close the achievement gap between African-American and Latino students and their white classmates. More importantly, he dissed the iPad.

We've collected some of our favorite and most memorable Apple ads from the last three decades, so take a trip down memory lane with us as we go through Apple's most iconic TV spots.

Users have jeered the New York Times' main iPad app, but the newspaper is listening to one in particular: We hear Steve Jobs is among the app's most vociferous critics and has been shunning it.

This hasn't been a good morning for Steve Jobs. The Apple CEO is facing a report the feds are looking into his control-freak lockdown of the iPhone and iPad. And a Times columnist says the company's recent actions look "horrible."

Apple believes it has a "moral responsibility" to patrol content on the iPhone. That apparently includes heavily watering down a guide to New York's gay culture, as one author just learned.

Apple banned a third prominent cartoonist from its app store, citing mockery of Tiger Woods and a policy against "ridiculing a public figure." If we're to let Apple censor our news, we should familiarize ourselves with the company's whims.

After exceeding Apple's quota of two tablets, this medical-school student was repeatedly told "you have reached your lifetime limit of iPad purchases" by an Apple Store drone who refused to say anything else. Heaven is closed to you forever, infidel.

Oprah gets excited about a lot of things; Celebs, free stuff, flowers, books. On today's Dream Job episode, Oprah took a spin around the iPad, but seemed more excited about the pictures of herself on the iPad than anything else.