On Thursday, Donald Trump will walk into the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, shake Xi Jinping's hand, and declare it a great meeting. There will be announcements. There will be numbers — billions of dollars in Chinese purchase commitments, a new bilateral mechanism with an important-sounding name, possibly a joint statement on Iran. Trump will post on Truth Social. Markets will rally briefly. Pundits will argue about who won. None of that will tell you what actually happened. What is actually happening in Beijing this week is something more consequential and more uncomfortable than the summit theatre will reveal: two leaders of two deeply mutually dependent superpowers, both of whom need this meeting to succeed for entirely different reasons, sitting across a table in a world that has already moved past the assumptions that defined their last nine months of negotiations. The Iran war changed the equations. The rare earth gambit changed the power balance. Taiwan is sitting in...
Hewlett-Packard is investigating a claim that webcams integrated into it's computers do not track or are incapable of tracking facial features of black people and only follow white or Caucasian features.
The video that first appeared on the internet is hilarious to say the least. The video was made by two co-workers Desi and Wanda. Desi appears in the frame and demonstrates that the webcam does not track his movements because he is black. In steps his c-worker Wanda and boom the camera seems to be following her every move.
The video as of now has already got 475,636 views and growing. It is categorized as a humor clip. But HP is saying that they have taken the matter seriously and are investigating.
“HP has been informed of a potential issue with the facial-tracking software included on some of its systems, which appears to occur when insufficient foreground lighting is available,” an HP spokesman said in an e-mail. “We take this seriously and are looking into it with our partners.”
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