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Win Google’s Pixel Wallpaper Contest And Get Pixel 6 For Free

Google is now running a Pixel wallpaper contest, and the winner will get a free Pixel 6. Do note that this contest is market-locked, for several markets. In order to participate, you need to be from Australia, Canada (Quebec excluded), Japan, Taiwan, the UK, or the US.Google is giving away a Pixel 6 to a winner of its Pixel wallpaper contestIf you are, you’re free to participate. Now, all you need to do is create and submit a wallpaper for the Pixel 6. The background does have to incorporate the centered front-facing…

The Cybersecurity Writing Contest 2022: Round 2 Results Announced!

In the first place, we have How To Find Out If A Hacker Has Attacked You by @angfaw9. How My Mother Got Hacked by a Phishing Attack by @fatman has won the second position! In the third place, we have Remembering and Honoring the Cybersecurity Pioneer John McAfee by @nebojsa.todorovic. The most-read story this month is How to Avoid Credit Card Skimming: 5 Tips to Keep Your Information Safe by @DawoodKMasood with MASSIVE 76,571 reads so far.Hackers, the Round 2 Results for the Cybersecurity Writing Contest are here! For…

HackerNoon’s DeFi Writing Contest with SORA Network: XSTUSD Use Cases

HackerNoon’s DeFi Writing Contest, in partnership with SORA Network, gives prize money in a stablecoin called - SORA Synthetic USD aka XSTUSD. Some of you might be 100% degens and already know what to do.This post is NOT for those of you.For the rest, let’s use this opportunity to better acquaint ourselves with the XSTUSD stablecoin, HackerNoon’s DeFi writing contest, and even the Polkadot Network in general. This one’s gonna be an eye-opener!!HackerNoon’s DeFi Writing Contest Details By simply writing a DeFi story on…

Wynonna Judd may contest Naomi’s will in sign of family tensions: report

Wynonna Judd and her late mother, Naomi Judd, were always upfront about how their relationship went through some rocky times, but they always talked about how they loved each other deeply. Now Naomi Judd’s decision to name her husband, Larry Stickland, as executor and primary heir may have reignited tensions, according to a new report. Wynonna, 58, and her younger sister, Ashley, 54, are left out of their mother’s will, and Wynonna is speaking to attorneys about challenging the will that names Naomi’s husband of 33 years…

iOS Game of the Week: Before Your Eyes is a staring contest with someone else’s memories

I'm crying. I've been crying.I just finished Before Your Eyes — Netflix's latest indie game port of a sweet and sad journey through life, death, and memory — and it only took me 90 minutes. I've been blinking as one naturally does, but this time with a video gaming purpose — to control a  narrative with the help of my iPhone's front-facing camera. In Before Your Eyes, some blinks are interactions, and others are jump cuts that propel your character's life forward by days, months, or years. And I guess the entire game is…

The Future of Gaming Writing Contest 2022: Round 3 Results Announced!

Hey, Gamers! The glorious #future-of-gaming contest by MegaFans has come to an end, and here we are with the third and final announcement of the winners. The contest has been a huge success! To date, the contest has attracted a total of 200+ contributing writers, 270 stories published, generated 15+ months of reading time, and 765,840 reads on stories! Our landing page of the writing contest alone gathered 1.5 MILLION VIEWS! AWESOMENESS!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥All hail to the amazing HackerNoon community and our super dope sponsor -…

UK to host Eurovision song contest in 2023 on behalf of Ukraine | Eurovision

The Eurovision song contest will be hosted in the UK next year after Ukraine’s public broadcaster dropped its objections and agreed to work with the BBC on the event.Ukraine won this year’s Eurovision with the song Stefania by Kalush Orchestra, earning the right to host the 2023 edition. However, organisers concluded this could not be done safely while the country was at war with Russia – angering the Ukrainian government, which said it had submitted a workable safety plan.The Ukrainian culture minister, Oleksandr…

The Debugging Writing Contest 2022: Round 3 Results Announced!

The FIRST place and the editor’ favotite piece goes to How to Find the Stinky Parts of Your Code : We have Reached 100! by @mcsee !! In the Second place, we have CI CD Pipeline: How to Setup a CI CD Pipeline From Scratch with GitHub Actions by @yuraabharian. In Third place, we have Reducing Time Spent on Refactoring 3 Tips from a Dev by @alex-omeyer!Last but not least, the winner for the most read article and $100 USD cash-prize is Reducing Bugs in React Codebase by understanding anti-patterns by @darshitac!Round 3, here…

The #Web3 Writing Contest: Round 4 Results Announced!

In the FIRST place we have: “Web3, Good Hygiene, and the Need for End to End Security” by @ronghuigu. The SECOND place goes to “2 Exciting Ways NFTs Can Influence the Music Industry” by @bensoncrypto. The “Most Read” story also got the third highest votes - “The Future’s Tokenized (and it’s Bright!)” by @ghostd09 has won two prizes!Fellow Hackers! Welcome to our monthly Web3 Writing Contest results announcement! For the Web3 writing contest, HackerNoon has partnered with Octopus Network to give monthly prizes to the best…

The Linux Writing Contest 2022: Round 1 Results Announced!

20,000 Leagues Under Your Shell by @tylerjl has won the first position with a clear majority! Commencing Your Linux Journey: 8 Commands You Should Know by @infinity has won the second position. Last but not the least, we have Linux Isn't Scary by @indieboy!Hey Hackers! The wait is over! Here we are with the results announcement for The Linux Writing Contest, June 2022. HackerNoon has partnered with Linode to give monthly prizes to the best Linux stories! How to participate? It’s easy as ABC - Simply submit your story with…