Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of two brothers who perpetrated the deadly Boston Marathon bombing, was told he must give back $1,400 in Covid relief, in addition to other funds sitting in the same prison account. While the government cut a check to the 28-year-old Kyrgyz-American last summer as part of a …
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Though it announced the completion of the acquisition last week in a press release, Boston Dynamics decided to mark the occasion in style on Tuesday. The video shows five of its dog-like ‘Spot’ robots dancing to the song ‘IONIQ: I’m On It’ by South Korean boy band BTS, and demonstrates …
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The US’ highest court on Monday agreed to review an appellate court’s ruling last July that errors in Tsarnaev’s trial tainted his 2015 sentencing. Trump blasted the lower court’s decision to vacate the death penalty against Tsarnaev as “ridiculous” and said on Twitter that “he killed and badly wounded many. …
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Fourth-graders hoping to get into the Advanced Work Classes (AWC) program are out of luck, after Boston Public Schools Superintendent Brenda Cassellius called for a one-year hiatus for the program this week. The district’s website now says “admission information will be available during the winter of 2021.” “There’s been a …
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Downdetector, a website that tracks reports of outages, showed widespread issues with Verizon, Google, Zoom, YouTube, Slack, Amazon Web Services and others shortly before noon on Tuesday. On Twitter, Verizon customer support blamed the outage on a “fiber cut in Brooklyn” and said it could not provide an estimated time to …
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The video – which showed off two robot humanoids, one robot dog-like creature with an extendable snake head, and a tall robot on two wheels doing a group dance – went viral on social media, with users both praising and condemning the robotic advancements. Described by some as “uplifting and fantastic,” and …
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Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, a hematology oncology fellow at Boston Medical Center, was given the drug on Christmas Eve. The health care worker, who has a severe shellfish allergy, said his heart began to race after taking the vaccine. Initially, he thought his increased heart rate was due to anxiety he …
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Two competing rallies were held, totaling roughly 1,000 people between them, in Boston’s Copley Square on Sunday. The ‘Peaceful Protest Against Democrat Violence’ was organized by the Super Happy Fun America group, the same group responsible for the controversial Straight Pride Parade in 2019. The group called on their political …
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A Canadian Twitter user posted video of the four-legged yellow robot ambling down the sidewalk on Thursday, though it’s not clear where it was actually filmed. The person taking the footage, though initially startled, opts for a friendly approach, addressing the quadruped with “Hello friend!” The dog-bot turns toward the …
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“We should eliminate the term ‘not racist’ from the human vocabulary,” Kendi tweeted on Sunday. “We are either being racist or antiracist. Is that clear for you? There is no such thing as ‘not racist.’” “So what does ‘not racist’ mean? The term has no meaning other than denying when …
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