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Bed bug infestations are only getting worse — here’s why they’re so hard to kill

Dec 28
2018

Humans have struggled with bed bugs for thousands of years. Despite our best efforts and technological advances, infestations are only getting worse.

6.1-magnitude earthquake hits West Papua

Posted by Genevieve Klien in futurism

Dec 28
2018

A 6.1-magnitude earthquake jolted West Papua on Friday morning, the Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics Agency (BMKG) reported.

The earthquake struck at around 10 a.m. local time, with its epicenter located some 55 kilometers southeast of South Manokwari and predicted to be 26 km deep.

“It did not trigger a tsunami,” a BMKG spokesperson said in a press release, adding that no casualties were reported as of yet.

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Posted by Michael Lance in futurism

Dec 27
2018

The biggest technology failures of 2018

Posted by Klaus Baldauf in futurism

Dec 27
2018

It was the year that technology—and the people who create it—seemingly could do no right, and did much that was wrong. As one of my sources put it in a tweet reacting to a dumb tech stunt, “2018 can’t end soon enough.”