Before July 4, 2012, the Higgs boson mass could only be in the 122 GeV to 130 GeV mass range (units where the proton mass is about 1 GeV, and the W and Z vector bosons are 80 GeV and 90 GeV, respectively).

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Finally, a reorganisation late last year, which created separate units for mass-market, business and multimedia phones, caused Nokia to take its eye off the ball.

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V-MODA tapped the collective intellect of artists, editors and audiophiles to design, develop and vote on the first units to go to mass production.

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It will be mass-produced at a rate of 15, 000 units each week, project founder Eric Migicovsky told reporters at CES. It would be generally available in about 6-8 weeks, he said.

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Entergy has several similar units, including its Pilgrim plant in Plymouth, Mass.

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Preproduction units will be released for public tests in October, followed by mass production.

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Both indicate that, if what they have seen really are Higgses, then the boson has a mass of about 125 giga-electron-volts (GeV), in the esoteric units which are used to measure how heavy subatomic particles are.

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