Nazis Filmed the 1936 Olympics in 3D


It seems Nazis were using 3D cameras even before anyone came up with the theory. According to various sources, Nazis had developed a 'sophisticated stereoscopic camera' to record athletes as they crossed the finish line in the 1936 Olympics. 
Philippe Mora, a filmmaker who has previously found evidence of Nazi using 3D in propaganda movies, believes Nazis used a twin-camera Zeiss Ikon system to film all Olympic track events. This camera was triggered by the starting gun. The amazing fact is that by this method 3D footage could were developed within 7 minutes for the referee to review. 
Its just strange that Nazis watched Jesse Owens beat them over and over again. According to our sources, Jesse Owens was determined winner in an event by using this method.

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Intel Will Get Inside Smartphones By Early 2012



The world’s largest chipmaker Intel will make its way to smartphones early next year, the company’s CEO Paul Otellini revealed today to investors.
He also rejected the idea that the company would adopt rival manufacturer ARM’s technology for the mobile chipsets. He was sharing his vision at Intel’s annual investor event in Santa Clara, Reuters reports.
Getting to mobile devices is a big deal for Intel. The company is the dominant desktop and notebook chip manufacturer with 80 percent market share — but other players like Qualcomm and Nvidia dominate the fast-growing smartphone market.
According to Otellini, licensing ARM technology would just lower the company’s overall profits. Intel has invested heavily in mobile technology and is currently working with several smartphone manufacturers. Intel’s latest chip in the Atom family, called Medfield, will be power efficient and powerful enough to compete in the fast-growing smartphone market.

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Google Testing New Search Results Page

Congrats! Or maybe-congrats: You might be a part of the test group of users that Google's using as digital guinea pigs for a redesign of its search results page. Unfortunately, there's no way to self-select to receive the adjusted results page, nor is there indication as to how (or why) Google's grouped its users the way it has.
For those unlucky ones that aren't getting the special Google treatment, here's what the new search results pages looks like. Starting off, it's a lot more spacious: Specifically, Google's adjusted the spacing between the results it delivers to increase the total white space (and page length) of the search results page itself.
Gone are the familiar "cached" and "similar" links—tools that allowed a user to pull up related pages and "snapshots" of pages that have been saved by Google in the event that the actual link was down for any reason. Also gone is the old, familiar underline under each page title: Google likely assumes that its users know how to work a search results page by now, and page titles are now just rendered in a larger blue font overtop the page's one-to-two-line description.

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Microsoft Buys Skype For $8.5bn



Microsoft's acquisition of Skype, its biggest ever, is an $8.5bn (£5bn) gamble to try to catch up with Apple and Google.
The software company, once so dominant, has been left behind by its more fleet-footed competitors as the pace of technological change – especially in mobile telecoms – has outstripped its ability to innovate.
Analysts saw the deal, which edges out the $6bn it paid for online advertising company aQuantive in 2007, as a sign of Microsoft's ambition to become a bigger force in the consumer and smartphone market. They also interpreted it as a sign that Microsoft intends to broaden its appeal to businesses by using Skype to offer cheaper services than existing phone companies.
Skype, which has 663m people across the world registered to use its Voice-over-Internet-Protocol (VoIP) communications, is available on personal computers and mobile phones – though not yet on Microsoft's new Windows Phone operating system. That is expected to be remedied soon.
The deal will see it established as a separate business inside Microsoft, dubbed Microsoft Skype. Tony Bates, the Skype chief executive, will become president of Microsoft Skype and report directly to Microsoft's chief executive, Steve Ballmer.

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HBO launching new mobile app this week



HBO is launching its HBO Go mobile product this week in hopes that letting subscribers watch its movies and original TV shows on the go will help reverse the 1.6 million-subscriber decline at the network and its corporate cousin Cinemax last year.
The new service offers 1,400 HBO titles available through Apple's iPhones and iPads as well as devices running Google's Android operating system. However, the service is only open to consumers with an HBO subscription.
The launch is the latest skirmish between established media and Web players led by Netflix to exploit consumers' appetite for streaming movies and TV. Netflix, launched as a service that delivered DVDs ordered online through the U.S. mail, has ridden the popularity of its newer streaming service to nearly 23 million U.S. subscribers, up from 5 million in mid-2006.
That rise has vexed movie studios, cable system owners and proprietors of premium cable channels like HBO -- and has especially exercised Time Warner Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bewkes, whose company owns Warner Bros. studios and HBO and used to control Time Warner Cable.

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