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Boston Dynamics robots can now dance better than you can

Boston Dynamics is an American engineering and robotics design company founded in 1992 as a spin-off from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In December last year, the company released a video that resonated around the world. The video sees Boston Dynamics' entire lineup of robots - the humanoid Atlas, the dog-shaped Spot, and the box-juggling Handle - all come together in a bopping, coordinate dance routine set to The Contours' ''Do You Love Me''. Everything almost looks like a CGI creation. The video shows incredible capabilities of today's technology by taking things to another level with robots smoothly running, jumping, shuffling, and twirling through different moves. Moreover, these machines are able to open doors, wash dishes and even get an actual job. Atlas - the world's most dynamic humanoid robot is a research platform designed to push the limits of whole-body mobility. These shows that technology keeps racing forward at an unimaginabl...

Coronavirus in Tanzania: The country that's rejecting the vaccine

Tanzania is one of the African countries that confirms to be ''Covid-19-free'' and has not published data on the coronavirus for months. Although there are many people dying from the virus the government still rejects to implement the vaccination considering it harmful without providing any evidence. Tanzania's president John Magufuli have mocked the efficacy of masks, doubted if testing works, and has instead been urging Tanzanians to use steam inhalation and herbal medicines, neither of which have been approved by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a treatments. Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima reiterated president's stance on vaccines and held a press conference to demonstrate how to make a smoothie using ginger, onions, lemons and pepper - a drink, she said without providing evidence, which would help prevent catching coronavirus. "We must improve our personal hygiene, wash hands with running water and soap, use handkerchiefs, herbal steam, exercise,...

Personal goal for upcoming semester

In the following months I would like to extend my vocabulary range as well as learn new English idioms in order to speak more fluently and smoothly. My goal is to use English more naturally with the ability to find synonyms and more sophisticated words. Furthermore, I would love to learn to write in literary language to make sentences more refined and persuasive rather than bland and common. I believe I will be able to achieve that through reading books in their original forms as well as articles and noteworthy essays