Latest Tech Stories From HackerNoon

This week’s top tech stories on hackernoon.com cover everything from robots to unicorns. Tune in for a 6-min summary from Natasha Nel, Managing Editor at Hacker Noon; read hackernoon.com for the full stories. IN THIS PODCAST: 🤖 Insights Into the Global Robotics Market 🐫 Today's Thriving Startups Will Be Camels, Not Unicorns ✊🏿 3 Actionable Steps for More-Inclusive Tech Teams 🤝 How to Negotiat...

Natasha Nel from  hackernoon.com  sits down with Sarah Evans—tech industry PR legend and strategic communications startup founder—to talk all things branding and influence: from personal to B2B. In this podcast: How to accumulate 100k *genuine* followers on Twitter What “newsworthy” looks like today How to increase credibility when you’re not getting traditional media coverage Where to pitch stori...

Natasha asks Dani Laity of Aurora Sustainability to unpack the sustainable tech product strategies and monetization models powering Aurora Sustainability—2020 Noonie Nominee in for  Best Use of Tech for Good  in  hackernoon.com ’s annual internet awards! VOTE:  noonies.tech     Covered in this interview:  How solve problems so relevant that your products build themselves The global shift from retu...

Monica Quaintance , who is the Head of Research and Networks at Kadena Blockchain. She’s a former Senior Data Engineer at Rent the Runway and a former Quantitative Analytics Engineer at the SEC. Joining Utsav Jaiswal from Hacker Noon as co-host is Lisa JY Tan , Founder and Lead Economist at Economics Design . They discuss Monica’s entry into Blockchain, the state of Blockchains in general and her...

Natasha Nel interviews 6x Noonie Nominee*,  hackernoon.com  Contributor, and Prolific Maker, Zoe Chew, to talk Product, Tech, Startups, and Marketing.   *PUBLIC NOMS CLOSE AT NOON ON WED, 12 AUG: Last chance to get your best in tech (or yourself) nominated for some well-deserved industry recognition this year! Choose from over 200+ Tech Industry Awards and  Add Your Last-Minute Noonies Nominations...

Utsav Jaiswal hosts Diwaker Gupta , Head of Engineering at Blockstack, Aaron Blankstein , Engineer at Blockstack, Maurice Herlihy , Engineer and Advisor at Algorand and Alberto Cuesta Canada , Lead Blockchain Instructor at BeyondSkills and a Hacker Noon contributor to talk everything about Clarity, a new smart contracting language. Hacker Noon’s best contributing writers discuss the need of new pr...

Join Hacker Noon’s Managing Editor, Natasha Nel, for a quick briefing on this year’s biggest, greenest and most independent tech industry awards: Hacker Noon’s prestigious #Noonies.  . The 2020 #Noonies are made possible by Amplify Brokerage, the world’s first global zero trading fee cryptocurrency trading platform. GET STARTED: https://bit.ly/2O9xrzJ   . The original Noonies was conceptualized in...

Mahbod Moghadam , a Co-Founder of Rap Genius , a founding member of Everipedia , a Yale and Stanford alumni, joins Utsav Jaiswal on the Hacker Noon podcast to discuss the need for more black leadership and why the CEO of biggest black-culture American website needs to be black. Mahbod shares how his passion for music and education in high school influenced his future career. He shares how Genius s...

Linh Dao Smooke discusses Entrepreneurship, running Hacker Noon , and the importance of education with Henry Le of Vietnam Tech Society. Linh shares how her opportunity to study abroad in India at age 17 has shaped the course of her life forever. Grateful for her scholarships to schools in India and the US, Linh has been creating opportunities for students and young professionals through her vario...

Bradley Kam , Co-Founder, and CRO at Unstoppable Domains , joins Utsav Jaiswal and Arthur Tkachenko on the Hacker Noon Podcast to discuss how decentralization enables censorship-resistant peer to peer communication. Bradley discusses how decentralized registries such as their (dot)crypto lives outside the DNS naming system and how it cannot be pulled down by vested interests. He also shares his op...

John McAfee talks about making more money than God on the Hacker Noon podcast hosted by David Smooke. https://podcast.hackernoon.com/ McAfee starts off with the impact of one's childhood and how it shapes perspectives. He shares his experiences as an entrepreneur and what it takes to become a multimillionaire. John McAfee also provides a take on the number one danger of the modern Internet and pre...

Juan Benet , CEO at Protocol Labs , founder of IPFS and Filecoin , joins Utsav Jaiswal and Vaibhav Saini , a Hacker Noon contributing writer, on the Hacker Noon podcast to discuss everything Web 3.0. They talk about the lifespan of new applications and protocols, factors influencing the growth rate of application technologies, the history of cloud development,  the philosophy, and as well technolo...

Adam Todd , Lead Developer and CEO of Digitex Futures Exchange , joins Utsav Jaiswal to share his journey in trading and discuss what it takes to build a cryptocurrency exchange.  They discuss cryptocurrency space in general, bitcoin, and the effort behind building cryptocurrency exchange from scratch. Adam shares the story of his trading experience which started when he was 19, and how it led him...

Jennifer Hooper , the Producer at Code[ish] and Senior Director, Technical Product Marketing, Content, and Brand at Heroku , joins Utsav Jaiswal to share her insights to building a tech podcast. Code[ish] focuses on code, technology and the life of the developer.  They talk about the place for growth-hacks in technology podcasts, how to add value to the listeners', and the importance of naming you...

Natasha Nel , Managing Editor at Hacker Noon, has a meandering conversation with the addiction psychologist who lives in her house — in his non-professional capacity — about what might happening to Our Brains on Social Media, as we stand in solidarity with #BlackLivesMatter. Some related reads on Hacker Noon on social media , psychology and activism .  Also check out Hacker Noon via the NOONIFICAT...

What just happened to the internet!? Did our President just sign an executive order that forces social media platforms to be his personal mega phone? Hacker Noon CPO Dane Lyons and CEO David Smooke discuss the possible implications on 45's attempt to change internet law. Some sources discussed in this episode: Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act Trump's Tweet About Mail in Ballot Fraud T...

Jim Huffman , CEO of  GrowthHit , husband, father of two girls, and author of The Growth Marketer’s Playbook — which “was #1 on Amazon until Seth Godin launched his new book and then it was quickly not #1” — joins Natasha Nel on the Hacker Noon podcast to discuss, well, Friday the 13th of March, 2020. A day defined by Jim as ‘The Hardest Day of His Career’, it involved losing $400k in ARR, losing...

Linh Dao Smooke and David Smooke discuss Joe Rogan's upcoming deal with Spotify and the potential implications for internet creators worldwide. Is this a turning point of the internet? Or just the next NBC licensing Friends and The Office to Netflix deal? ... Which was a pretty big deal for Netflix claim to the video streaming market share... Plus we discuss - all while walking in Colorado - how t...

CEO of Open Orchard, Ex Head of Communications & Advocacy at Steemit Andrew Levine joins Utsav Jaiswal to discuss whither blockchain, what inspired Andrew and his team at Open Orchard to start their project on launching new Blockchain Koinos, the driving philosophy as well as the underlying technology. Andrew talks about the differences between Bitcoin, Ethereum, Hiveblocks and Koinos Blockchains,...

Washington Post NBA Reporter Ben Golliver joins David Smooke on the  Hacker Noon podcast to discuss Microsoft winning the NBA deal, what the Kawhi Leonard logo lawsuit means for the shoe industry, how the reporter’s tech stack has evolved over his career, what talents and traits lead to quality front office decision makers, the path from blogging to mainstream media, how the pandemic affected spor...

Listen to the interview on iTunes or watch on YouTube .   In this episode Utsav Jaiswal interviews Arthur Brock and Eric Harris-Braun , Co-Founders of Holochain - an Open Source framework for building fully distributed, peer-to-peer applications.  They talk about Holochain ’s mission and values, how it differs from Blockchains, and how to manage distributed teams.    “What we've been interested in...

Listen to the interview on iTunes or watch on YouTube . In this episode Linh Dao Smooke and Utsav Jaiswal interview Alex Tinsman , President at NEM.io Foundation and NEM’s CTO Nate D’Amico .   They discuss cryptocurrency adoption, difference between NEM, a peer-to-peer cryptocurrency and blockchain platform, and Nem. IO Foundation, gender role in crypto tech spheres, blockchain decentralization, N...

Listen to the interview on iTunes , or Google Podcast , or watch on YouTube . In this episode David Smooke interviews Davis Nguyen , Founder of My Consulting Offer .  They discuss Davis's way into consulting , insights on social media marketing , and people’s motivations behind startups . “I spent my money on just online courses. So I bought the best courses on YouTube ads, Facebook ads, Twitter a...

Listen to the interview on iTunes , or Google Podcast , or watch on YouTube . In this episode HackerHodl (Utsav) interviews Cardano co-Founder and IOHK CEO, Charles Hoskinson . They discuss Cardano as a blockchain and an enabler of functional Smart Contracts to drive scalable, secure, and fast transactions over the chain. Cardano just launched their Shelley update that is also an incentivized test...

Back from migration hiatus! Tune in to Mark Nadal , creator of the GUN decentralized database, and David Smooke , Founder & CEO of Hacker Noon, discussing  open source , decentralization , faagm , and a bit about their upcoming partnership.  Read more: https://hackernoon.com/ Submit a tech story:  https://auth.hackernoon.com/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/hackernoon Facebook: https://www.facebook.c...