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 via a blog post that their browser Chrome will get instant translation to facilitate the web's multilingual platform. So now people can watch their favorite Arabic gameshow or read tech blogs written in other languages. The feature works without the need for any plug-in's or extensions. This multilingual tool begins it's work when a users is browsing a webpage that is not on their preferred language settings. A prompt will be displayed by Google asking you if you would like to read this webpage using Google Translate. Here's a demo from Google on how the feature will work An original post by Sociolatte