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The Trump-Xi Beijing Summit: What the Smiling Handshakes Won't Tell You

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...

iPhone controllable Parrot AR.Drone helicopter

Wow.. this is a really cool toy. A drone helicopter that can be controlable through your iPhone or iPod touch through Wi-Fi. It has a camera in it's snout which streams to your phone. Controling it is easy as it is computer stabalized. It will cost about $ 500 and and about 15 minutes battery powered fun on a one hour charge. Your tilt your iPhone to steer the helicopter with touch controls to adjust altitude. If you want to play a game on the phone you can see virtual enemies on your screen or you can simply use it to spy on your neighbourhood. An original post by Sociolatte