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...
Yes it's here. Google has launched an opt-in beta program of YouTube Feather. Designed to make your videos load faster and better. "To help do so, the pared-down version of the site does away with many familiar features including the ability to rate and comment on videos, and also limits the number of loaded comments to ten " Found on the YouTube blog. " Introducing Feather: A Lighter Way to Browse Videos One of our priorities is ensuring that videos always load and playback quickly. However, a consequence of rolling out higher quality video, HD and, more recently, 1080p , is that playbacks might suffer if bandwidth or computer processing power is low. There are also a few countries where bandwidth is at a premium and videos can take several seconds to start playing. Take Feather for a test drive here . Google has said they are going to monitor how feather perform before rolling it out to a larger audience. This comes as a boon for those running slow PC...