Willy Loman Contemplates Twittercide
In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman Willy Loman meets his unceremonious end unsure about the meaning of his life as an agent of soulless American capitalism. Our friends at McSweeney’s explore what might happen if Loman faced a tragically empty existence in the social media vortex. Linda, Happy, Biff, pull some seats up to…
Google Tablet Spotted in Benchmarks, Running Android 4.1 ‘Jelly Bean’
The long-rumoured Android tablet supposedly being made for Google by Asus as we speak has been discovered in some tech benchmark results, revealing the 7″ Nexus tablet to be running on Nvidia’s Tegra 3 chipset. The benchmarks reveal a 7″ Android tablet running at 768×1280 resolution, with the software onboard described as being based around…
Inside the Navy’s Newest Spy Sub
The Navy’s newest fast-attack submarine is speeding down the Florida coast, on its way to its commissioning ceremony in its namesake state, at 15 knots. And it’s getting outraced by dolphins. Hours before the U.S.S. Mississippi dives several hundred feet beneath the Atlantic, its sail juts proudly into the warm, whipping southern air. Submariners allow…
Sergey Brin Finally Lets Someone Else Wear Google Glass
Sergey Brin has once again hit the town with Project Glass – but this time he let someone else wear Google’s augmented reality headset. California Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom wore the specs on The Gavin Newsom Show, and later told Wired about his brief experience with one of the world’s most rarefied pieces of technology.…