Hasta La Gadget!

We’ve all heard and read the story of how Steve Jobs co-founded Apple in his garage decades ago, and how the nascent company and its very few employees sat in that same garage to build some of its first computers. The garage of Steve’s childhood home is definitely an iconic place, it gave birth to one of the most valuable companies on the planet. The Los Altos Historical Commission seems to agree, as it has voted unanimously to designate the home as a “historic resource.”

This unanimous vote marks the end of a two year effort lead by the commission to preserve the ranch-style home as it is, the commission conducted extensive research and property evaluation. Chairman Frank Bishop praised the work carried out by city staff and his colleagues on the commission. The current owner of this house is Patricia Jobs, Steve’s sister, who wasn’t required to give permission in order for it to be designated as a “historic resource.” However, Patricia can appeal the decision to the city council if she wants. It was at this very house that the first 100 Apple 1 computers were built, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and even Patricia Jobs were the few people that helped out. Apple now operates out of Cupertino, California. [Image via Mercury News]

Childhood Home Of Steve Jobs Designated As “Historic Resource” original content from Ubergizmo.

It seems that the initial report of 2.9 million compromised user accounts from Adobe’s security breach earlier this month was a mere drop in the bucket. Krebs on Security reports that at least 38 million active users were were impacted by the incident and that the swiped source code included the …

Four years ago, Oslo-man Christopher Koch’s girlfriend scoffed at his purchase of $27-worth of Bitcoin. Chances are she was singing a decidedly different tune last April, when Koch checked back in on his investment and found out it was worth $886,000. And over a cool million today.

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This year we have heard a lot of chatter about the future of wearable devices. We’ve seen a number of companies detail their smartwatches, many of them seeking to achieve their crowdfunding goals. We saw Samsung, Sony, Qualcomm and a few other major companies release their smartwatches. Google continued to make rounds with its Google Glass, which is expected to be released to the public next year. What about Microsoft though? Does Redmond plan on entering the wearable technology market? Seems so, it has been rumored that there are a couple of gadgets being developed at Microsoft. One company executive has reportedly said that despite all of the hype surrounding wearable devices, they’re not likely to enter the mainstream market until 3-5 years from now.

The comment, picked up by Focus Taiwan, was made by Microsoft’s corporate vice president and chairman of its Asia-Pacific research group, Zhang Ya-qin. He expects to see a lot of “try-outs” of such devices in the coming years, devices which are likely to include watches and eyeglasses. Ya-qin says that such devices will require more time, “maybe three to five years in development,” before we can see them in the mainstream market. Though this obviously doesn’t mean that Microsoft won’t come out with a “try-out” of its own within this time period. Only recently the company was rumored to be testing prototypes for “internet-connected eyewear,” basically its own Google Glass rival.

Microsoft Executive Believes Wearable Devices Are 3-5 Years Away From Mainstream original content from Ubergizmo.

At ARM TechCon conference in Silicon Valley, ARM has announced its new T700 series of graphics processor (GPU) which is set to be its fastest to date for high-end smartphones, with the T760 spearheading the line-up. ARM also talked about a T720 model that is aimed for mid-range/low-end devices and reminds that MediaTek, LG and Rockchip have already signed up, just to cite a few. You can expect many variants of these GPUs to show up, depending of the customer requirements in terms of number of cores, and frequency. Unfortunately, the number of cores alone is only useful when comparing GPUs from the same vendor since each chipmaker can have a different definition (if not “exotic”) for what a “core” is. The ARM Mali-T760 is compatible with OpenGL 3.0, OpenCL and RenderScript. (more…)

ARM Mali-T760: ARM’s New Top GPU original content from Ubergizmo.