Elite: Dangerous faces competition after launch

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Space trading game Elite: unsafe is to be launched on 16 December. The latest sequel to the powerful game will go on wide release after months of testing by those who backed it on Kick starter. After launch, the game will face stiff opposition from other space-based games at present in growth.

Many of those offer players very similar experiences to the fighting, trading and exploring in deep space seen in Elite. Plans to create the fourth installment in the Elite sequence of games emerged in November 2012 when the project appeared on Kickstarter seeking to raise £1.25m to develop the game.

Elite: unsafe is being made by Cambridge shire-based Frontier Developments, the game studio headed by David Braben who co-developed the unique Elite game. He supposed he used Kickstarter because it would have been hard to get a publisher to back the plan.

The December release date is later than originally planned and the game will initially only be playable on PCs. A Mac version is due to follow three months after the original release. Frontier is planning an event on 22 November at which some players will get a gaze at what the finished game will look like.


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Sketch Factor App: For Unsafe Areas in Racial Discrimination Line

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Sketch Factor App which launched on Friday uses crowd-sourced data from users to pinpoint sketchy areas as well as to provide safe walking directions.

The app allows users to submit sketchy reports and others to vote on whether or not the tips are helpful. Sketch Factor is just one of many products that aim to crowd source safety information about the areas in which users live and walk - and it is not the first to be hit with the racial discrimination label.

In fact, several alarming red flags pop up when one looks at the region around the bureau. But in reading the comments, some reports are not as threatening.

There's a homeless shelter or something that houses the poor here. The residents hang out front and never bother anybody, but it's uncomfortable as you pass an otherwise nice area, reads one.

It is comments like these that have landed the app's founders, Allison McGuire and Daniel Herrington, in hot water.

A tool like Sketch Factor might actually be incredibly powerful for a community in building safety by allowing people to share stories but it really does depend on the background. You could imagine a community that might have a xenophobic tendencies or exclusionary tendencies to use an app like that as an extension of already existing biases.

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High-Tech Sleeping sensor breaks through $1m on Kick starter

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A 22-year-old British entrepreneur's new sleep-tracking kit has cracked $1.2m in its first week on Kick starter’s mass funding platform. James Proud launched his product, Sense, on 23 July through a goal of raising $100,000 within 30 days.  But it accepted the $1m-mark on Sunday, and has been estimate to raise more than $4m by the period's end.

Sense includes an orb that monitors the bedroom, a clip that attaches to the pillow, and a cell phone phone app. The equipment produces a distinctive score for the preceding night's sleep and aims to wake the owner up at the top point in their sleep cycle. 

It is due to ship in November and can be prepared in advance for $129. Apps such as Sleep Cycle, Sleepbot and Sleep master are already used by iPhone, Android and Windows Phone users to track their sleep using sensors built into the handsets. There are also professional hardware devices such as Aura, from the French firm Withings, and a $8,000 snore-stopping bed.

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Real Estate Investing and Essential Steps

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Real Estate is a cycle and cycles have some amount of predictability. With certainty, you can raise your real estate business into a cash-producing, profit-pulling machine that runs itself with the changing real estate market trends. It is still possible to make money in real estate. In fact, now is just as good a time as some to get started in real estate investing.

                                                                                                                                                                                           What this means is just that you must be experienced in the basics - the tried and true techniques, strategies and systems that have worked in the past, are still working and will work in the future. The essential steps in real estate investing are:

Set your plan: Figure out what your long term real estate goals and figure out what your short term requirements are with regard to making money in real estate. Then, set up the proper entities and put the plan in place.
 
Decide what your target market will be: You cannot be all things to all real estate markets. If foreclosures appeal to you, start investing in the foreclosure marketplace.

Be steady and determined: Real Estate is not a get wealthy quick system. Real Estate is get wealthy over time and put few quick cash in your pocket today. You've got to follow your plan and stick with it to see real results in real estate.

 Become a master of money: Real estate is the commerce of marketing and money. You must learn about mortgages and interest rates and loan program that are out there.

Become a skilled problem solver: The reason you will get real estate deals that others don't, is since you are able to solve people's problems. Anything goes on the real estate playing field.


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