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If you smell smoke that isn’t there, you’re not alone.Photo: maxknoxvill (Pixabay) A small but very real percentage of people often smell odors that aren’t actually there. About one in 15 Americans over the age of 40 regularly experience so-called phantom odors. But we have no idea why, according to a new study published Thursday…

Photo: Getty Tesla shares fell by more than 8 percent on Friday morning as worries about an SEC investigation increased and CEO Elon Musk gave the New York Times an interview in which he discussed his mounting problems at the company. Despite everything, Musk says he’s just going to keep tweeting. Isolating exactly which issue…

Computer simulation of the cosmic webGraphic: TNG Collaboration (Eurekalert) The mere fact that we live in a universe boggles my mind every once in a while. But thankfully, our cosmic home is a place that follows rules; the laws of physics seem to agree everywhere, and galaxies are uniformly distributed throughout. Except for in this…

A 2013 image of the Martian surface snapped by the Opportunity rover Photo: NASA The NASA press release explains that dust storms are measured with a number called “tau,” with higher tau indicating a more opaque atmosphere. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, a satellite that circles the planet, can estimate the tau by observing the surface.…

We don’t know yet what the OnePlus 6T will be, but if past history is any indication, OnePlus’ next phone will feature a similar design as the OP6, but with a few tweaked and updates components. Photo: Sam Rutherford (Gizmodo) OnePlus is well known among smartphone and tech enthusiasts, but more than four years after…

Image: Spotify And that does makes sense. But the logo only bothers me when it is presented without the company name, floating on its own. “i would guess they are doing it to avoid looking like the icon people use for wifi,” wrote another Gizmodo reporter, “because aside from being green, most people prolly couldn’t…

Photo: Getty The U.S. government is demanding for Facebook to “wiretap” its Messenger app so agents can hear a suspect’s spoken conversation, as a part of an investigation into the MS-13 gang, according a report from Reuters. Reuters is basing the report on accounts from three people reportedly briefed on the criminal probe. The anonymous…

Photo: Getty Poor TiVo. The pioneer of live TV recording was just minding its own business, muddling along in a world it doesn’t recognize when news broke that Amazon is looking to start a fight. That’s all it takes to send investors fleeing. But why does reportedly Amazon want in on this antiquated market? Bloomberg…

Telecom operators in Russia may be required to upgrade network equipment and upgrade to new SIM cards with Russian cryptography. The proposal was made by the Ministry of communications. Details it told the newspaper “Kommersant”. The appropriate draft order of the Ministry of communications has already been published on the Federal portal of projects of…

In the network appeared the new image of the forthcoming smartphone Pixel 3 XL have not been submitted yet by Google officially. Photos published canadian resource MobileSyrup. According to the source, the user Pixel with the 3 XL was sighted and photographed in the tram in Toronto. The smartphone looks really great, confirming rumors of…