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== October 7th, 2019 ==
* '''View Source 2019''' -- In its 5th year, Mozilla’s annual web conference, [https://2019.viewsourceconf.org/# ViewSource 2019], featured talks by Selena Deckelmann (Our Privacy and the Web), Mike Taylor (Browser Compatibility), Kadir Topal (MDN Developer Needs Survey, originally a keynote at W3C TPAC), Mozilla Tech Speakers Ali Spittel & Chen Hui Jing, and panelists Yulia Startsev & Andreas Bovens. View Source also included interactive conversation areas where Mozillians & attendees discussed What’s New in Firefox, Browser Compatibility & Interoperability, the Web Speech API, Mixed Reality Privacy, and MDN Browser Compatibility, among many other topics. There were also audience lightning talks and live podcasts from [https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-3/creating-javascript?sc_cid=701f2000000tyBtAAI Command Line Heroes] & Voices of VR. Videos of the talks will be posted within a few weeks, but in the meantime you can check out what people had to say on [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ViewSourceConf?src=hashtag_click&f=live Twitter].
* '''Mozilla Developer''' -- Mozilla’s brand-new developer video channel on YouTube launched with a series exploring [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgjjGlfBflIRRWuCXnSTU1-35EcDc5Jwf Firefox Developer Tools] and [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgjjGlfBflIS3jdp_IkuRDB36MnXZG2hM web development]. The channel has close to 3k subscribers after its first week, and additional videos will be released weekly.
* '''From WebVR to WebXR''' -- Last week’s Oculus Connect event highlighted the many ways the Web is a core part of the VR experience today, as two thirds of Oculus users browse the Web on their VR headset. Web XR is the next generation of VR on the Web, helping fuel that growth, by enabling whole new kinds of augmented reality and mixed reality experiences along with new more portable, sophisticated glasses and devices. Our Brian Peris provided a look into the emergence of WebXR in a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=415&v=b0KglUkvEak presentation] at Oculus Connect showcasing our social mixed reality work with Hubs by Mozilla.
== September 30th, 2019 ==
* '''Faster than Realtime''' -- Mozilla’s Deep Speech speech recognition engine now runs faster than realtime on a single Raspberry Pi 4 (RPi4) core. This means Deep Speech can process ten seconds of spoken voice data in less than ten seconds on a small, inexpensive device like the Raspberry Pi 4. This opens up many possibilities for small-platform speech-to-text (STT) applications. Look for more information soon on how you can get your hands on a copy.
