NY Times Reporter Takes Maplewood's Temperatures From Afar

MAPLEWOOD, NJ — Is Big Thermometer watching you? A New York Times reporter published, on Thursday, a story in which he took to the streets of Maplewood with an infrared camera, noting that companies are using them to see if workers have high temperatures, a possible sign of coronavirus. "I got my hands on a temperature-reading infrared camera and hit the streets of Maplewood on a hot summer day last week," he wrote. "I wanted to understand where the camera succeeds and where the challenges are...."

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