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Meet the Hackathon Winner: Packworks on the Future of Phygital Retail and Building With Bright Data

Welcome to HackerNoon’s Meet the Hackathon Winner interview series, where we peel back the layers of winning projects across our hackathons for a peek at the technical and operational decisions that propelled them to our winners’ podium.

Meet Packworks: Proof of Usefulness Hackathon Winner in the Bright Data Category

Packworks was one of four projects named winners in the first round of the Proof of Usefulness Hackathon’s Bright Data Awards. The company describes its platform as an operating system for general trade in Southeast Asia and reports supporting more than 335,000 sari-sari stores across the Philippines.

Following its selection as a Bright Data Award winner, we caught up with the Packworks team to revisit the project and explore how Bright Data could help expand its retail intelligence capabilities.

INTERVIEW

What does this Bright Data category win mean for Packworks?

This award is a unique validation of our mission to digitize...

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AMD Docs Confirm AM5 Upgrade Path To Zen 6 Olympic Ridge And Medusa1

If you follow hardware leaks and rumors, you probably read that headline and said "well yeah?", while if you don't follow hardware leaks and rumors, you probably have no idea what we're talking about. Here's the short version: AMD's technical

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Meta's proposed $18B settlement in teen harm case throws YouTube and TikTok under the bus, too

Meta announced on Wednesday that it has offered to pay about $18 billion to settle the lawsuit against it brought by 52 attorneys general from US states, territories, and the District of Columbia. But part of that payout and some of its concessions are being conditioned on whether YouTube and

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MNT follows up its open hardware portables with a desktop case

Upgrade the portable, give its old mainboard another job MNT is launching the Station, a miniature desktop case for motherboards that come from its Reform open-source laptop. If you upgraded the laptop, you can now give your old motherboard a new life. The MNT Station is very pricey for a

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GitHub Actions was down yet again

Another outage puts last week's promises to an early test GitHub Actions stumbled again on Wednesday, days after the code host renewed its promises to improve reliability. Wednesday’s problem, as has so often been the case, hit Actions, GitHub’s CI/CD platform for automating software builds,