Hubert Nguyen is the co-founder and editor of Ubergizmo. He has a passion for technology and enjoys sharing it.
He is a retired computer graphics engineer who programmed special-effects such as real-time fire or hair rendering, for NVIDIA. Hubert also managed the NVIDIA developer education program and edited “GPU Gems 3“, a best-selling 3D programming book.
Before joining NVIDIA, Hubert was at 3dfx interactive. Prior to that, he worked on 3D-Engines in various video games.
Hubert started to program computer graphics in 1991 when he was involved in the underground European DemoScene. In 1994, his “Impact Studios” team won the world’s largest PC demo competition: The Party, in Denmark.
09/13/2016, Reports about iOS 10 updated disabling iPhones and iPad are starting to surface. The primary symptom is an update screen which progress is “stuck”, followed by a Connect to iTunes via cable screen. Apple is aware of the problem, has come up with a...
09/06/2016, Intel is acquiring Movidius, a chip-maker known for the Myriad series of SoC specialized in vision and deep learning inference workload at low power. Intel’s main stated reason for buying Movidius is to strengthen its Intel Realsense technology which...
09/02/2016, We’ll all seen it in various Police and Espionage dramas: some horribly blurry or pixelated image is taking from an equally horrible surveillance camera and after “enhancement” a face come out of it. For years, many of us have laughed at these movie...
09/01/2016, HP is continuing its push towards better and more innovative designs, and we’re keeping a close eye on it. This latest HP Pavilion Wave is a desktop computer designed to be practical, powerful and very integrated. It is also capable of blending into the...
09/01/2016, During its media event at IFA in Berlin/Germany, Qualcomm has unveiled a new reference hardware for Virtual Reality (VR) developers called Snapdragon VR 820. It is a self-contained, head mounted, VR system that offers a complete freedom of movement*...
08/29/2016, Samsung has just introduced two series of monitors aimed at the highly competitive Gaming market. It’s a bit strange to think that the company wasn’t already in, but it’s never late to join the party, especially since things are still moving fast in...
08/26/2016, It was recently discovered that a security flaw dubbed “Trident” in the iPhone’s iOS operating system could let hackers breach the security measures and have full access to the phone, including camera and communications (microphone, data…).
08/26/2016, The name Garmin still resonates with GPS navigation, and more recently with fitness bands and smart watches, but Garmin is working on changing this: With the Fenix (fēnix) luxury watch, the company enters the Luxury Watch market
08/26/2016, Google has announced that its own version of the games can be played directly from the browser after a simple search for Solitaire or Tic-Tac-Toe. Both games come with two or three levels of difficulty and are basic implementations of the famous games.
08/25/2016, Apple has deposed a patent (USPTO link) that describes how the company’s devices could use the fingerprint information of thieves, to catch them. Called “Biometric capture for unauthorized user identification,” the patent describes how an...
Hubert Nguyen is the co-founder and editor of Ubergizmo. He has a passion for technology and enjoys sharing it.
