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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...

How to learn Photoshop online free

So if you are into creative graphics and would like to learn how to edit and create amazing images using Photoshop. You're in luck - CreativeLive has something called PhotoshopWeek. What happens here is that for a whole week you get 6 days of intense training on Adobe Photoshop. All of these online classes and tutorials will be broadcasted live starting Feb 25, 2012 - Mar 2nd. All these free tutorials are being made available through 12 world-class instructors. Classes are for all levels of learners from novices to graphic gurus. The good thing about these classes are that they will be available to anyone anywhere in the world. So once you join you get 40 hours on nonstop classes. The tutorial will cover Photoshop elements, CS5, CS6 and all other elements of Photoshop. All these Photo Shop Tutorials will help you learn Photoshop in a week. Photoshop has a lot of tools that are extremely creative and very useful - especially if you have just started out with Photoshop. There is the ...

Google Glass Video 'Ok Glass'

Google Glass has been in the news after disappearing for sometime. Google Glass are augmented realty glass eye-wear from Google. It is to be worn like regular glasses with a huge difference however. These glasses can shoot video, take a pic, share to your social networks and even make calls. These are just a few of the possibilities of Google Glass. The latest video from Google shows at least two commands that that the Glass follows. 'Ok Glass' will tell Google Glass to get ready to take a pic or shoot a video. Saying Google will bring up search results on whatever you might be looking at, at the moment. Saying Ok Glass tells the device that the users wants to do something - maybe check the weather, get driving directions or launch a video chat hangout. Check out the video below to see Google Glass 'Ok Glass' video below http://youtu.be/v1uyQZNg2vE

MICROSOFT builds crime-fighting 'dashboard' for NYPD

Created jointly by the NYPD and Microsoft - a system has been developed and know as 'the dashboard'. This state-of-the-art system is the latest in crime fighting technology. The Dashboard is a system setup in the police control room that immediately mines data from police records, data, security cameras and other available information and presents it to officers post a 911 call. The system is very user-friendly and presents data in a structured form helping officers quickly zero in on a threat and see what connects it has to past police records. Helping them determine the terror threat level. The system is currently being tested and refined before being rolled out to all 34,000 officers. The way it works is that as soon as a 911 call comes in. The call pops up on a panel. when the officers clicks on the alert. He is taken to the area on a map, also showing the cameras that are already in the area. Helping the officer zero down and determine the exact threat level. This program...

Is it true that Elephants are scared of Bees and Mice and the Bee Rumble

For this post we take a break from the usual Tech writing and do something related to mother earth. Another reason for this posts' inspiration is the constant updates on Reddit in regard to the fact that Elephants are actually scared of Bees. For a long time there has always been an urban legend that 'Elephants are scared of mice'. To debunk this the Myth-busters team over at Discovery actually went to Africa fully prepared to prove it was wrong and just an urban legend. Hiding mice under elephant dung the researches waited, and much to their surprise when elephants discovered the rodents. it stopped them dead in their tracks and even made them turn around. It is actually true elephants are scared of mice. Please don't ask us why. Are elephants scared of Bees?, yes, they are deathly scared of bees. There is even something know as the 'Bee Rumble'. When the sound of a swarm of bees was played close to elephant families. The reaction was instant - the elephants l...

What is Pheed and how does it work

Pheed has in a short while become one of the most popular Apps at the iTunes store. It is totally free to download and use and quickly risen to becoming one of the most popular apps being downloaded. Many uses on Twitter and other social networking sites are already claiming that it's the next big thing. Paris Hilton has also joined Pheed and has already Tweeted congratulating them for becoming the No 1. App in the world. So what's all the fuss about - there are many features that make Pheed a wonderful and powerful App and let us try to break it down for you here. What is Pheed? Pheed is a social networking App now available at the app store and coming soon to the Google Play store for all you Android users. Once you setup your Pheed people can follow you and you can follow people. Something all Social Networking site users are familiar with What can I do once I setup and create me Pheed It gives you a chance to express yourself. As a user you can create and share texts, photo...

List of best sites to make a Meme

Any ordinary event in life is now being made into a meme . Thanks to the creative people who hang around site like Reddit. If you are new to the whole business and would like to make or create a meme of your own. We have a list of the most popular sites being used by people to generate their own memes. All of these sites already have the preloaded macro image of the original. All you need to do is to add your captions - once done you Meme is ready and you can then share it on sites like Twitter, Facebook and Reddit. This list is in no particular order and all you need to do is to visit the website and start creating your meme. 1. Quickmeme.com   - On Quickmeme, all image macros are already loaded - simply click on make a meme to get started. Choose your image and add your creative captions and then share. 2. Troll.me - this websites has all memes loaded on the front page, scroll through and choose the meme image you want to use. Click on the image you want to use, and on the right you...

How to search for a job at Facebook

Facebook has offices all over the world, be it in Dubai, Paris, India, Singapore or Australia to name a few. They are also very with keeping their careers page updated. Old jobs re removed and new ones are added. There is always some hiring happening at Facebook. Visiting their 'Careers at Facebook' page you can browse through all the openings around the globe and apple for one that best suits your skill-sets. So if you want to explore the opportunity at landing a job at Facebook and working in one of their cool offices around the globe this is how to do it. How to find a job and apply for a job at Facebook. Facebook careers are great 1. you would first need to go to their Careers Page 2. Beside their job search descriptions box - choose the drop-down beside the globe icon 3. Now choose the location nearest you and click on the 'magnifying glass icon' 4. You should now see all the openings at that particular location or spot. If a particular jobs suits your job role an...