Facebook is the first website that comes to mind when thinking about an online forum full of fake news and hatred. But it’s hardly alone, and platforms from Twitter to Wikipedia are all debating the correct remedies for the spread malice and misinformation. Companies are taking drastically different approaches to regulating their content, spurring a debate about the line between moderation, deplatforming and all-out censorship of free speech. The internet fosters toxicity like few other places on earth – so much so that governments are beginning to draft legislature to help control the spread of fake news and limit online hatred....

According to Reuters, the two suppliers Cryoin and Ingas, produce 45 to 55 percent of the world’s semiconductor-grade neon, a critical component in chip manufacturing. In a bid to safeguard the well-being of their employees, it was reported that they both closed their doors last Friday. With Russia’s advance showing no signs of letting up, many experts fear that these developments will place a further strain on chip shortages that have been present since the start of the pandemic....

What is surprising? Just how fast they’re still growing. The 2017 Q2 numbers are in: the popular streaming company has added 5.2 million subscribers this quarter, smashing its own estimate of 3.2 million and breezing past the 100 million mark to stand at a total of 104 million subscribers. It’s Even More Impressive Than Usual Why is this news so impressive? Because at this point, Netflix is lapping itself. The company added 1....

Intel needs a strong win following the embarrassment of the Spectre and Meltdown processor flaws that tarnished the company’s reputation this year. The 9th generation of Intel chips are expected to land in October, and rumors are they they will also address the Meltdown and Spectre security issues that caused headlines in January. As well as the usual i3, i5, and i7 core processors, the documents also hint at a super-powered i9 chip that will be widely available for consumers....

Packing four rear cameras, the One Zoom promises to take incredible photos without breaking your bank. The four rear cameras include depth-sensing and ultra wide lenses, giving you all the tools to take great shots. Sounds expensive? All that camera tech comes at a budget-friendly $449. So will the One Zoom be the phone of choice for savvy smartphone snappers, or is the Google Pixel 3a still the way to go?...

Sometimes it’s easy to get wrapped up in the material objects for sale though, but this year I want to encourage you to remember that the gift of education is one of the best you can give. After all, it never fades and will markedly improve your life. That’s why the team at One Month, a startup that empowers people to change their lives by learning real-world coding skills, is offering a hell of deal on Cyber Monday....

With Peercisely, Cynthia can tap into an outside network of referrers to help find the kind of candidates who will make a difference at her organization. How Peercisely Works In the past, hiring managers were limited in their referral sources to employees and people in their personal and professional networks. Peercisely expands that potential referral pool to help companies recruit high-caliber new talent. Peer referrers scroll through job listings on the Peercisely iOS app and refer the people in their personal and professional networks who will make great candidates....

Released last week, Picturelife‘s new mobile app allows users to do everything they can do now in the native Photos app, plus a lot more (and I really mean “a lot”). More importantly, the app immediately loads the photos you’ve taken on your phone and gives you the added ability to automatically sync those photos directly to the Cloud. Paired with Picturelife’s web app, what this essentially means is that you can access your library of photos from literally any of your devices....

Like most things we love, some of the brave and bold attempt to dabble in it ourselves and invest in it as a hobby. Your yoga friend may be making Kombucha, your niece might be 3D printing things her brother broke, and your partner is still snapping brunch items hoping one day to become a star. But you, you want to brew beer. It’s not quite like the days of moonshiners, brewing sketchy semi-explosive liquids out in the mountains, the art of beer brewing is easier than ever....

Four international entrepreneurs are launching a coworking boat, not to be confused with a coworking space. Coboat will set sail in November 2015 from Southeast Asia and make its way around the world in a year, as it picks up and drops off passengers. The boat holds 20 at a time, and you can reserve a week- ($971), month- ($3,884), or year-long journey ($50,630) now. The price includes: Shared accommodations, with bunk and double beds....

Jevelo is a custom jewelry retailer. Seeds merges mobile gaming and micro-lending. How can they possibly promote women entrepreneurs in Kenya? It’s actually quite simple. Through Sunday, May 8th, a portion of all proceeds from each piece of bespoke Jevelo jewelry sold will fund a microloan for a female Kenyan entrepreneur. Because of the lack of traditional banking services in parts of the country, these microloans – transferred through M-PESA – can help with everyday purchases as well as business growth expenses....

However, while futuristic technologies like artificial intelligence and virtual reality have seen dozens of realistic innovations since their sci-fi debuts, holograms are seriously lagging behind. Other than a few impostors, the technology is completely absent from the tech world. And if you think you’ve seen a hologram before, you’re probably wrong. Lost in Translation Yes, hologram-like technology is all over the place. Whether it was a startup at CES or a now-deceased musician popping up at a popular music festival, you’re probably vehemently insisting that this article couldn’t be more wrong if it tried....

Thanks to the new partnership, when users click on advertisements they find on merchants’ Twitter profiles, they’ll be taken straight through to their respective ecommerce websites. Although the change makes Twitter a more attractive prospect for Shopify sellers, it still falls short of the functionality provided by other social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. Twitter Steps it up for Shopify Merchants With Twitter’s new feature, Shopify merchants will now be able to show up to 50 products for sale on their business’s Twitter account or personal profile....

Silica Labs is a startup focused on bringing the Glass discussion to the forefront of the DC tech community. The company sees a huge opportunity in developing Google Glass apps (“Glassware”), especially in Washington, where such technology can have revolutionary effects on education, government, health care, and defense. For now, Silica Labs is focused on the recent launch of its first product: SimpleWing, which would make it possible for literally any media company to create Glassware with the same functionality as the CNN and New York Times apps, which premiered earlier at Google’s I/O Conference and SXSW....

Talentsquare is an applicant tracking system that helps employers manage their job openings and incoming candidates in the cloud. Regardless of the size of your business, Talentsquare makes it easier for any employer to review and hire candidates. How does Talentsquare work? Talentsquare allows employers to post jobs to popular job sites and create campaigns to target a specific type of candidate. It also enables employers to create a brand for their hiring process that will help attract desired talent....

Most recently the search giant decided to lower the ranking of websites that weren’t mobile friendly (e.g. displaying large text that wrapped to fit smartphone screens). Google’s so-called “mobilegeddon” shrank traffic to some sites up to 10% in just 2 months after the policy was implemented. The study was conducted by Adobe systems, which tracked 5,000 websites [PDF]. Perhaps more importantly, it made running mobile-unfriendly websites more expensive; without organic traffic from high google rankings, some website owners responded by buying ads, leading to a 16% increase in the cost-per-click of advertisements (or the amount publishers pay advertisers when users click on an ad)....

Indeed, seeing the actual reaction to your epic photo is much more fun than getting a plain text LOL or emoji! Snapd was co-founded by Neil Metson, currently freelance Head of Creative at AOL UK and Anthony is Senior Designer at Hi Mum Said Dad. The startup recently raised the first seed funding from a UK based digital investor and business incubator Haatch and now work on the expanding their user base and driving more fun into our daily communication with instant reaction gifs!...

Specifically, Square is investing $5 million in what will be a “proof of concept” for a way to mine the popular cryptocurrency in a sustainable way. Square, which you may recognize as the company behind all those white credit card kiosks in coffeeshops, might not sound like a bitcoin titan. But this is just the latest move in a line of companies trying to address the elephant in the cryptocurrency room, namely just how much energy the digital money sucks up....

Unfortunately, as early-stage startups and Cleveland Indians fans now know, all good things must come to an end. While seed funding peaked in early 2015, numbers have dropped steadily since then, leaving the 1,500 startups that raised their first rounds of capital during this boom to bootstrap, fail, or consolidate in the absence of viable options. FitBit Acquires Pebble FitBit’s recent acquisition of Pebble makes this decline in funding all the more apparent....

The panel of Startup Weekend e-Government DC judges included: Aneesh Chopra @aneeshchopra – Senior Advisor at The Advisory Board and former United States Chief Technology OfficerMark Headd @mheadd – Director of Government Relations at Code for AmericaTom Lee @tjl – Director of Sunlight Labs (Note: he has named a panda)Dan Kasun @dankasun – Senior Director of Microsoft’s US Public Sector Developer and Platform Evangelism (Note: also a closet cartoonist)...