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...
There have been a lot of rumors circulating over the internet and latest one is that the new Apple TV will cost $99 and run on iPhone OS4 with an A4 processor. The set top box will display all YouTube videos, images from iPhoto and Flickr, will get it's video content from iTunes in SD and HD Quality. The rumor further goes on to suggest that the device will have 16GB of Flash Storage and be capable of full 1080p HD. This rumor first appeared on Engadget . Some have described the device as an iPhone without a screen Critics says that the difference between Apple TV and Google TV is Apply TV will not be able to play flash videos and everyone knows that up until now flash was what people used to make videos. Apple goes with HTML5 only. Most of the videos on the web run on Flash An original post by Sociolatte