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Consciousness: Why we need to build sentient machines
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Nokia Announces The Lumia 925, An Aluminum Flagship
LONDON – In 2011, Nokia launched its first Windows Phones — the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 — on stage during an event in London.
Nokia and Windows Phone have come a long way in the past two years, and on Tuesday the company added another handset to its Lumia line at an event in London, the Lumia 925. The phone will be Nokia’s flagship device at T-Mobile in the United States, and will be available in Europe and China starting in June.
Running Windows Phone 8, the handset sports much of the same functionality you’ll find in Nokia’s other flagship devices, the Lumia 920 and Lumia 928, while also bringing some new things to the table in terms of design and features. Read more…
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Google Fiber Comes to Gladstone, Missouri
Gladstone, Missouri is the next city to get Google’s ultra-fast broadband service, Google Fiber
The news comes days after Google announced Fiber would be coming to the tiny town of Shawnee, Kansas. Google has also added Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah…
Hipstamatic Oggl app coming to Windows Phone 8 on Lumia 925
Hipstamatic is coming to Windows Phone 8. The new Oggl app was shown off at Nokia’s London event with a WP8 UI. We don’t know whether this is a Lumia exclusive or not, but it’s arriving with the Lumia 925, regardless. There are several filters, in…
Nokia Lumia 925 vs. Lumia 928 and Lumia 920: what’s changed?
When Nokia launched the Verizon-friendly Lumia 928 with some imaging improvements, it looked as if GSM users would have to wait for the company’s next flagship to catch up. If those people couldn’t wait for the mythical “proper” PureView Lumia, th…
Nokia announces the Lumia 925: a thinner, lighter aluminum body coming June for 469 euros
Nokia’s second announcement for May is arguably a more notable progression from the Lumia 920 than the US-only Lumia 928. This is the Lumia 925. It’s another flagship, but this one’s setting its sights on the rest of the world. The first thing to …
