In addition to new outfits and backpacks, face masks are now an essential addition to kids' back-to-school gear. According to new guidelines released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, all students and staff should wear masks inside schools, regardless of vaccination status. But kids used to virtual learning may not have much experience interacting or communicating with their peers or teachers while masked. And parents and child development experts alike are wondering how that will affect children as they return to school. For instance, to assess whether kids can accurately interpret a masked person's emotions, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Child Emotion Lab showed children ages seven to 13 pictures of people displaying different emotions.

Here's what you need to know as you start your day Fauci says'hopefully' making young kids wear masks won't have'lasting negative impact' White House Chief Health Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday that "hopefully" making young kids wear face masks won't have any "lasting negative impact" on them. During an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Fauci said it's important to keep an "open mind" about masking after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that unvaccinated children ages 2 and older wear masks and that students wear masks in all K-12 schools, regardless of vaccination status, in light of the rapid spread of the COVID-19 delta variant. "It's not comfortable, obviously, for children to wear masks, particularly the younger children," he said. "But you know, what we're starting to see, Hugh, and I think it's going to unfold even more as the weeks go by, that this virus not only is so extraordinarily transmissible, but we're starting to see pediatric hospitals get more and more younger people and kids not only numerically, but what seems to be more severe disease. "Now we're tracking that, the CDC is tracking that really very carefully, so it's going to be a balance that we would feel very badly if we all of a sudden said OK, kids, don't wear masks, then you find out retrospectively that this virus in a very, very strange and unusual way is really hitting kids really hard," he continued. "But hopefully, this will be a temporary thing, temporary enough that it doesn't have any lasting negative impact on them." Hewitt pushed back, citing an editorial Sunday by The Wall Street Journal, titled, "The Case Against Masks for Children," which argues that long-term masking can cause physical and developmental issues in children and that there's little evidence to back up a mandate. "Facial expressions are integral to human connection, particularly for younger children who are only learning how to signal fear, confusion and happiness," Hewitt said. "Covering a child's face mutes these nonverbal forms of communication, can result in robotic and emotionless interaction.

Lara Logan and Justin Goodman join'Fox News Primetime' to weigh in on the report that the NIAID, under Fauci's direction, performed painful experiments on dogs White House Chief Health Adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci said Monday that "hopefully" making young kids wear face masks won't have any "lasting negative impact" on them. During an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Dr. Fauci said it's important to keep an "open mind" about masking after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that unvaccinated children ages 2 and older wear masks and that students wear masks in all K-12 schools, regardless of vaccination status, in light of the rapid spread of the COVID-19 delta variant. "It's not comfortable, obviously, for children to wear masks, particularly the younger children," he said. "But you know, what we're starting to see, Hugh, and I think it's going to unfold even more as the weeks go by, that this virus not only is so extraordinarily transmissible, but we're starting to see pediatric hospitals get more and more younger people and kids not only numerically, but what seems to be more severe disease. "Now we're tracking that, the CDC is tracking that really very carefully, so it's going to be a balance that we would feel very badly if we all of a sudden said OK, kids, don't wear masks, then you find out retrospectively that this virus in a very, very strange and unusual way is really hitting kids really hard," he continued. "But hopefully, this will be a temporary thing, temporary enough that it doesn't have any lasting negative impact on them." Hewitt pushed back, citing an editorial Sunday by The Wall Street Journal, titled, "The Case Against Masks for Children," which argues that long-term masking can cause physical and developmental issues in children and that there's little evidence to back up a mandate. "Facial expression are integral to human connection, particularly for younger children who are only learning how to signal fear, confusion and happiness," Hewitt said. "Covering a child's face mutes these nonverbal form of communications, can result in robotic and emotionless interaction.

The US Army's new'Enhanced Night Vision' technology makes fighting in darkness look like a video game for soldiers. The Lancer Brigade, a US military combat unit, posted video of the high-tech equipment, which shows people and objects outlined in a glowing white light, to its Twitter account last month. The Enhance Night Vision Goggle-Binoculars replaces the traditional green night vision experience to help soldiers see more effectively in low light. The Army says its new device uses white phosphor tubes instead of the traditional green phosphor, which it says offers troops better contrast to see enemies, equipment and weapons. The new goggles include a set of binoculars and an augmented reality system and soldiers will also be able to use them to look through the scope of a weapon remotely.

The NBA isn't going to have much of an offseason. The league is preparing to start the 2020–21 season on Dec. 22, just two months after the Los Angeles Lakers left the Orlando bubble as champions. But the bubble is no more. Teams will be playing games in their normal arenas, and the NBA sent a memo to its 30 organizations with an outline of protocols for hosting reduced-capacity crowds. The NBA has sent its 30 teams a memo with protocols for eligible markets to host fans, requiring people within 30 feet of court to register negative coronavirus test two days prior to game or rapid test on day of game, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium.

Face masks are one of the best defenses against the spread of COVID-19, but their growing adoption is having a second, unintended effect: breaking facial recognition algorithms. Wearing face masks that adequately cover the mouth and nose causes the error rate of some of the most widely used facial recognition algorithms to spike to between 5 percent and 50 percent, a study by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has found. Black masks were more likely to cause errors than blue masks, and the more of the nose covered by the mask, the harder the algorithms found it to identify the face. "With the arrival of the pandemic, we need to understand how face recognition technology deals with masked faces," said Mei Ngan, an author of the report and NIST computer scientist. "We have begun by focusing on how an algorithm developed before the pandemic might be affected by subjects wearing face masks. Later this summer, we plan to test the accuracy of algorithms that were intentionally developed with masked faces in mind."

The maker of the N95 respirator mask designed it for the mining and construction industry. It filters out 95 percent of the visible airborne dust particles, keeping them from entering the lungs. It has vents so the wearers can exhale. Demolition crews use them, concrete laborers use them, so do workers who sand wood floors, gypsum board walls, and plaster ceilings. Workers in other trades, such as electrical, plumbing, rough carpentry, and wood finishers rarely wear masks.

In this new era where we experiencing a pandemic and people all around are advised to wear masks, some people are not used to it and are avoiding to wear masks. The motivation behind this projects is that if we can take help of AI to detect people wearing or not wearing masks in public places, it would be helpful to increase our safety. If deployed correctly, the mask detector could potentially be used to help ensure our safety. Also, it is very depressing to be alive in this period, to witness so much happening in this world, I decided why not do something out of it i.e convert a real world problem in which we humans have to wear masks to go out, into a Machine Learning problem. The task here is to predict people wearing masks or not wearing them, given an image or a video.

Americans are increasingly being spotted wearing face masks in public amid the coronavirus pandemic, as are people are around the globe. Soon, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) may advise all Americans to cover their faces when they leave the house, the Washington Post reported. The agency is weighing that recommendation after initially telling Americans that they didn't need to wear masks and that anything other than a high-grade N95 medical mask would do little to prevent infection any way. Research on how well various types of masks and face coverings varies but, recently, and in light of the pandemic of COVID-19, experts are increasingly leaning toward the notion that something is better than nothing. A University of Oxford study published on March 30 concluded that surgical masks are just as effective at preventing respiratory infections as N95 masks for doctors, nurses and other health care workers.

When Apple unveiled its new iPhone X that lets users unlock the device with facial recognition (called Face ID), many joked that this would allow their partners to snoop on their phones, and that they'd have to wear masks to sleep. To help upcoming iPhone X users protect themselves, online retailers are now selling masks, including one dubbed'anti-facial recognition headgear.' While Apple's premium anniversary device won't be released in China until November, several vendors on the country's e-commerce giant Taobao are now selling such'accessories' for those with untrustworthy partners. With the unveiling of the iPhone X's Face ID, many joked this would allow their partners to snoop on their phones and that they'd have to wear masks to sleep. To help upcoming iPhone X users protect themselves, online retailers are now selling'anti-facial recognition headgear' The green mask called'anti-facial recognition headgear' is selling on the site for 39 Yuan (or $5.95).