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...
Google announced that it would be using speech recognition technology to create captions to help the deaf and hearing impaired. The company would be using the same technology that is used in google voice that converts voice to text for the voice service. For its initial launch it will be available to only a handful of YouTube content partners like Berkeley and Yale. Once your transcription is on it can be captured and converted into 51 languages. To read more about it on YouTube follow this link An original post by Sociolatte