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Vietnam’s state-of-the-art technology may soon recognise faces with mask on
HANOI (Vietnam News/ANN): Smartphone users will soon be able to use facial recognition to unlock their devices — without removing their face masks. Brand new, state-of-the-art technology has been developed by engineers in Vietnam that will allow phone cameras to identify users even if the faces are partially covered. As the Covid-19 pandemic spreads across …
‘They’re Killing Us,’ Texas Residents Say of Public Health and Environmental Rollbacks – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
Danielle Nelson’s best monitor for the emissions billowing out of the oil refineries and chemical plants surrounding her home: The heaving chest of her 9-year-old asthmatic son. On some nights, the boy’s chest shudders as he fights for breath in his sleep. Nelson suspects the towering plants and refineries are to blame, rising like a …
Way library uses 3D technology to print face shields | News
PERRYSBURG — What are Way Public Library’s technology specialists doing during the pause in in-person services at the library? Besides remaining available by phone, email and social media to answer questions, Adam Marier and Rachel Henck Bentley have continued to help people become more proficient in the use of the library’s digital resources. They have …
School District of the Chathams Design and Technology Team Donates Filtration Masks and Face Shields to Frontline Workers
School District of the Chathams Supervisor Danielle Dagounis along with Design and Technology teachers Jessica Liatys, Kyle Kermick, Jason Mariano, and Julia Ryan are collaborating with teachers in Livingston and Madison to print filtration masks and shields for front line healthcare professionals. The team has re-purposed the 3D printers they use in their classrooms to …
Black Americans Face Alarming Rates of Coronavirus Infection in Some States
In Louisiana, one of the states most devastated by the coronavirus, about 70 percent of the people who have died are African-American, officials announced on Monday, though only a third of the state’s population is black. In the county around Milwaukee, where 27 percent of residents are black, nearly twice as many African-American residents tested …
Services break out face mask rules
Following the Defense Department’s guidance for troops to cover their faces when personnel are out in public or when social distancing is difficult to maintain, the armed services have begun issuing new rules for how service members wear the new accoutrements. All the services said that personal protective equipment, such as N95 respirators or surgical …
Coronavirus crisis forces SCOTUS to face its technology problem — Quartz
The US Supreme Court is still hard at work making decisions and publishing opinions during the coronavirus crisis, although these efforts now go mostly unnoticed while the people frantically scan the news for answers to practical and pressing questions about the pandemic. Whether the nation’s top jurists miss the attention is unclear because apart from …
Bay Area Health Officials Advise All to Wear Face Coverings in Public – CBS San Francisco
SAN JOSE (KPIX) — While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still expected to revise guidelines and advise all Americans to wear face coverings when outside their homes, Bay Area public health departments made that decision Thursday and announced the recommendation to local residents. “It is one more way to do what we …
Coronavirus: Expert panel to assess face mask use by public
Image copyright Reuters Should more of us wear face masks to help slow the spread of coronavirus? This question is to be assessed by a panel of advisers to the World Health Organization (WHO). The group will weigh up research on whether the virus can be projected further than previously thought; a study in the …
NSW residents face $11,000 fine for breaking quarantine, ACT follows suit
NSW Minister for Health Brad Hazzard signed the Public Health (COVID-19 Restrictions on Gathering and Movement) Order 2020 last night. Photo: Twitter. UPDATED 2:40 pm NSW and ACT residents who leave their homes without a valid excuse could face fines of up to $11,000 or six months’ jail time as the states and territories toughen …
