See the ridiculous prices you’ll have to pay to get an Airbnb at SXSW 2016

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South by Southwest is the time when the city of Austin, Texas goes absolutely bonkers. It’s not only the time for the biggest film and music festivals in the country, but also the period where the tech elite fly south for networking in a new climate. People are already competing for flights and hotels — and the event isn’t even until next March. That’s why the findings of Stay 22 — a company that offers lodging in proximity to events — aren’t so surprising. In a recent blog post, the company found out that hosts of Airbnbs in the area near…

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Weird Hangouts glitch means some Android users can’t chat

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If you’re a Google Apps user, you may want to hold off on upgrading to the newest version of Hangouts (version 4.0) on Android; a strange glitch means some users can’t connect to Google’s chat server. According to Android Police, if your Google Apps account has had Hangouts disabled by an administrator, you won’t be able to use Hangouts for any account on your phone. In other words, if you use your phone to check your work email, but an admin has disabled Hangouts for that account, you won’t be able to chat using your personal email either, or any other Google…

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Ghost’s blog platform finally got a big design upgrade

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Ghost, the blog platform that came out of a Kickstarter after raising £196,000, today got a big visual update for the first time since it launched in 2013. Today’s release bumps it to version 0.7 and brings a redesigned backend interface, making it easier to navigate your blog’s dashboard and adding a search bar to help find older posts. The search bar autocompletes posts and suggests authors to search by as well, making it easy to quickly jump to something published a long time ago. You can also edit posts by slapping /edit on the end of the published URL if you…

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Want free porn? Downloading random Android apps isn’t a smart way to find it

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In 2015, it shouldn’t really be quite so necessary to keep pointing out all the ‘good’ practices for keeping yourself and your data safe online.Using different passwords across different websites is a pretty obvious start, but apparently not advice that anyone bothers listening to, judging from the top passwords used across Ashley Madison. However, just because continually repeating this sort of advice shouldn’t be necessary, clearly it is. People are still downloading malware-riddled apps they know nothing aboutg without a care in the world, until it’s too late. One of the latest is a ‘ransomware’ app that ships under the rather…

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Starcraft now works in the browser and it’s amazing

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I love the original Starcraft. It’s hands-down the game I’ve spent the most time playing and was my first introduction to dial-up multiplayer back in 1999. Now, someone’s managed to port Starcraft into the browser for the first time thanks to HTML5. A user on GitHub, known only by the first name of ‘Ryuta’ uploaded a repository containing the bits, which you can have running on your own in a few seconds. It requires no installation and shows some basic demos of controlling units, entering combat and even the full animations from the game. It’s not comprehensive yet — the levels…

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Zomato makes it easy for every restaurant to have its own app

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Restaurant search service Zomato has launched Whitelabel, a platform that lets businesses create and manage their own iOS and Android apps with no technical expertise necessary. Restaurateurs will be able to set up custom apps with up-to-date information, photos and offers at their establishments, push notifications to users about upcoming promotions, accept delivery and take-away orders, display reviews from their Zomato pages and track downloads and usage. A restaurant app created using Zomato Whitelabel The service is available to restaurants in all 22 countries where Zomato is present, including the US, Canada, UK, Brazil, Australia, the UAE and India. Whitelabel apps…

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Alda is a new programming language that lets you compose music in a text editor

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For years, composers and producers have used complex tools to digitally score music. Developer Dave Yarwood wants to change all that with Alda, a new programming language he created to help people write scores with little to no coding experience. Yarwood found GUI-based scoring and production tools like Sibelius distracting and limiting when it came to actually penning music. Alda strips all that away and presents users with a simple syntax that they can use to compose MIDI scores in a text editor, without the need to learn a new software interface. A basic score with its syntax in Alda…

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Maskbot will keep your dirty online subscriptions private

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It’s 2015: a subscription to practically any online service is a license to get doxxed. But when you’re subscribing to a dirty, salacious online service (perhaps rhyming with “Smashley Shmadison“?) or all of the porn, it’s also a recipe for a maelstrom of online shame and scandal. Email privacy tool Maskbot allows you to create unlimited random aliases that redirect to an email address of your choice, meaning that you can generate as many different accounts as you choose to filter back to one single place. The process is simple: plug in an alias to sign up for something, and field all the…

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Last chance to buy SkyHub Cloud Unlimited Backup and the Mac Power User Bundle

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SkyHub Cloud Unlimited Backup: Lifetime Subscription We all have a growing mountain of data to keep safe, making online backup a good investment. SkyHub differentiates itself by offering unlimited storage space and uploads, along with convenient access to your files. This service is about as uncomplicated as it gets. After minimal setup, SkyHub automatically backs up all your Windows and Mac machines, along with any attached thumb drives and external disks. Uploads are protected by military grade AWS 256-bit encryption, and there is no restriction on the amount of data you can store. Once online, your files can be viewed…

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