#it's not even possible to tamper with a racing car pre-race

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Not all of them arguing and checking cctv and blurry video recordings when every car - especially racing cars - have on-board computers where you can check for any kind of tampering. Just read the telemetry, you guys! How do you even win these races? By alpha powers alone??😭😭

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Thor and Tony Stark #31

It started off as a celebratory thing.  The Avengers had defeated the bad guy and Tony being Tony had decided that something like saving the day deserved a celebration.  

“Come on,” he told the others, who seemed less than impressed with the idea.  “It’ll be fun! Remember schwarma? That was fun.” Tony was lying about that, and they all knew he was lying about that. The Hulk actually rolled his eyes, which was something that Tony was going to tell Bruce about when he was less green.  

Natasha didn’t even bother turning him down, she just left. Steve awkwardly offered up an apology for not being able to make it – to something that Tony suggested happen here and now – in what Tony could only suppose was the 1940s version of saying he had to wash his hair.  Clint announced he had to go find his stray arrows, and Bruce understandably took a nap.

Thor, however, was more than game.  “I have never gone carting! Let us go.”

Tony had imagined a more team-like flock of superheroes in go-karts, like a real life version of Mario Kart, but if everyone else was going to be a fuddy duddy about it, Thor was definitely the best choice.  Tony was absolutely sure this was going to be amazing and also hilarious and possibly would end up going viral.  So much possibility.

“You are all missing out so badly,” he informed the fuddy-duds, and he guided Thor to the nearest go-kart facility.

They flew; it was awesome.

Tony began to doubt the technological supremacy of Asgard when Thor had no idea what a go-kart was.  Tony couldn’t quite explain why it was more fun to drive a tiny motor powered kart instead of a much faster sports car or the much more exhilarating Iron Man suit, but Thor was still game to try.

The track was crowded with pre-teens.  There was a table covered in balloons and cupcakes near the track, and Tony was proud of whichever kid realized that this was a prime spot for a birthday party.  

Fitting Thor into a go-kart was a bit of a trial, given that he was still wearing his cape, but they managed, and soon they were flying around the track. It was soon apparent that Thor was an aggressive driver, fiercely competitive, and hopelessly outmatched by a particularly talented ten year old girl.

Tony suspected the kid lived at the track; there was no way a kid should possess the driving skills necessary to outmaneuver both a god and a man who had raced professionally.  He was going to find out her name and he was going to sponsor her in whatever motorsport she deemed worthy of her attentions.  

Thor seemed to take it as a personal challenge to outrun the girl, who on top of driving flawlessly chose to trash-talk her way to glory.

“Where’s your god now, huh?” she crowed as she took the finish line first again.

“I am a god,” Thor replied, a little pathetically.  He eyed his go-kart thoughtfully. “Stark, could you–”

“I am legally not allowed to tamper with the go-karts,” Tony cut him off.  There had been papers served; it turned out it was some sort of insurance no-no.  Pepper would have his head if he did it again.

Thor eyed the sky thoughtfully, and Tony felt compelled to interrupt before something regretful happened to the track.  “I think that was our last round, buddy. I bet Bruce’s waking up by now, we should tell him of our glory and all that.”

Thor clearly knew what Tony’s game was, but he agreed anyway.  “You were a worthy opponent,” he informed the girl as she flew by on yet another trip around the track.

“Keep practicing and you might be too!” she called back.

Thor laughed. “Oh, I will. Do not fear, young child.”

Tony was absolutely going to have to bring the rest of the Avengers next time.  Maybe a cameraman, create a best-of reel for some kickass publicity.

He wondered how Thor would be at laser tag.

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Faceter Introduces Intelligent Video Surveillance for Smart Secure Cities

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If you want to commit a crime, do it in London. The bustling metropolis has over 400,000 security surveillance cameras focused on citizens as they go about their daily lives. That’s 10 times more cameras than New York has installed. Yet even with the heavy surveillance, you are six times more likely to be robbed in London today than in New York. It is fair to say that the current video security technology is dumb and partially blind. The ubiquitous CCTV (closed-circuit television) camera is an analog device that sends closed, low quality signals to a display monitoring device. Images are often fuzzy, faces hard to discern, and video loss common. Little if any intelligence is gathered from the data streams, which are stored for later retrieval of the captured information. Studies have shown CCTV cameras produce a statistically significant, but small, reduction in crime, and mostly help capture thieves.

Intelligent Decentralized Video Surveillance

Location, location, location…is only part of the video security challenge. The next generation of smarter video surveillance is designed to not only receive but also decode, analyze and act on image data. “Advanced intelligent AI-based software combined with digital cameras, connected to the internet, provides video surveillance with eyes to detect faces, identify objects, and conduct real-time video analysis,” says Rob Pothier CEO of Faceter. The Faceter system uses deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) to perform more advanced face detection analysis, while requiring less pre-processing, and thus power, than other methods. The deep learning tool for visual imagery can perform advanced functions such as feature extraction, pattern recognition, and classification, with any camera connected to the internet. Users can easily feed the video stream to Faceter by providing the IP-address of the camera.

The next evolution, says Pothier, is the ability to understand the situation and react to it. Actionable data, for example, can be created by powerful face detection technology that can compare facial and other features across millions of images in real time, and store the data clusters. A known burglar knocking on your door, or a swarm of terrorists surveying a major tourist attraction could be immediately identified and law enforcement notified in real time. Retailers can obtain valuable demographic information on store customers, including real time data analysis of the shopping patterns of the business-attired lunch crowd, or the morning flow of housewives and children.

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Surveillance video is becoming a part of our daily lives. We use video to monitor many things: home security, the nanny with our children, Amazon package drop offs, a fire in our home and, with a camera equipped car, the activity around our car and on the road. But the advanced technology is too costly for most consumers.Blockchain technology is making it possible to bring more powerful features to small businesses and consumers. Advanced video surveillance technology relies on expensive cloud computing from Amazon, Microsoft and other cloud hosts to provide the GPU power needed to operate live cameras 24 hours a day. Faceter is cleverly putting cryptocurrency mining resources to work to provide the GPU power to operate advanced video surveillance systems at a fraction of the cost of cloud-hosted services. Miners, who are seeing their crypto margins eroding, are expecting to double their profits in this new enterprise.

The concept uses fog computing to connect cameras to video hubs. Behind each hub is a group of miners providing the GPU power. The mining operations are compared and rewarded over a tamper-proof smart contract. The proof-of-recognition system will disconnect miners with incorrect hash calculations. To ensure privacy, images are irreversibly distorted before entering the mining nodes. Faceter will operate on its own blockchain to improve speed and reduce costs.

Do Faceter Video Security Cameras Know Where You Are?

If not, consider subscribing to Faceter’s smart video security network. Like business users today, consumer subscribers will soon be able to connect their cameras to the Faceter system by buying a subscription by fiat or credit/debit card, which is then converted to the Faceter tokens (FACE) used to reward the miners.

The smart detection, analytical and comparative functions have broad uses in the future. Soon, Faceter will be able to track a person who has only been partially identified in an effort to discern more features beyond height, weight and body type. Also detectable are noises, motions, objects, sex, age, race, emotions, and sound recognition.   The $ 10 million pre-sale for the Faceter FACE token sold out in 20 seconds. Faceter is running its token sale from February 15th to  March 30th. Three hundred million FACE tokens are for sale at a rate of 1,000 FACE=0.0872 ETH. But today less than 30% of tokens left and they are in high demand. Don’t wait, buy them now. The funds from the crowdfunding will support the development of the mass market version of the system.

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