Pre-caffeine tech: Nobel prizes, famous garages!

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The garage in Los Altos, California, where Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded Apple Inc. in 1976.

Our pre-caffeine roundup is a collection of the hottest, strangest, and most amusing stories of the morning. Here's everything that you need to know before taking that first sip of coffee today: 

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs died on Wednesday, but he left behind a legacy full of iconic products. We've rounded up some of the most significant ones for you — along with a little bit of their history.

The New York Times has this story on how Jobs spent his last days.

The Onion and the Economist agree on Steve Jobs, The Atlantic points out.

In other news, three women won the Nobel Peace Prize, and not Mark Zuckerberg as some wildely speculated.

This guy filed a federal lawsuit against Facebook, claiming it violated wiretap laws with a tracking cookie that records web browsing history after logging off of the social network. Good luck with that.

Speaking of Facebook, you can now photo tag people who aren't your friends.

Also, a woman didn't "Like" her husband's status, so he hit her.

Twitter crashed yesterday for more than an hour.

Speaking of delays, Samsung and Google are delaying the debut of Nexus Prime and Ice Cream Sandwich.

BlackBerry fixed the Flash problem on its tablets, but that's it.

In closing,  History.com shows you where Apple started out, along with with other famous garages of great American entrepreneurs!

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