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...
Facebook have released a new update to their Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android -- the ability to send voice messages. Sending a voice message is now fairly simple to record and send via Facebook's standalone 'Facebook Messenger" for iOS and Android. These messages can be sent in lieu of text or picture messages. Messages can be recorded for a length or 60 seconds 1 minute only. Once recorded, release the record button to send or slide the button to delete. Bringing with it a walkie-talkie feel. Definitely something to try and have fun with, before the novelty fades off. How to send a Voice Message using Facebook Messenger 1. Open the App on your phone or tablet 2. Tap the '+' button beside the text input box. 3. The emoticon and photo attachment menu shows up with a new 'Microphone Icon'. 4. Tap it to start recording 5. A timer appears with the countdown to a minute. 6. Release record button to send or slid off to delete and start again. Facebook Mess...