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== April 27th, 2020 ==
* '''Popular Hacks Posts''' -- We had a pair of especially popular posts on our Hacks blog last week. One, “[https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/code-quality-tools-at-mozilla/ Engineering code quality in the Firefox browser: A look at our tools and challenges]” provided an overview of lessons learned over many years in introducing tooling for code quality in Firefox. Sylvestre and Bastien also talk in the post about some of the challenges the team has learned to overcome (and Firefox encompasses 21 million lines of code) as well as our patch generation workflow. The second post, “[https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/04/experimental-webgpu-in-firefox/ A Taste of WebGPU in Firefox]”, introduces us to an emerging, standardized API that provides access to the graphics and computing capabilities of hardware on the web. Dzmitry provides a solid overview of what would otherwise be an incredibly complex topic, and includes some examples of WebGPU in action. Check them out!
* '''Experience & Design Research''' -- Our ET Experiences and Design team helps us identify real problems that real people have, and in areas where our work at Mozilla can make the web more enabling and empowering. Recently they’ve completed a series of explorations of Personal AI focused on the needs of older populations, and on the intersection of privacy and online behavior -- both for immersive MR and protecting children online. Stay tuned for announcements of reports and workshops to share the results of that work.
* '''Moon Robots!''' -- [https://www.dlr.de/EN/Home/home_node.html DLR], the German air and space agency, has started work on using our Deep Speech speech to text recognizer for their moon robots, focused on providing voice control of the robots when astronauts have their hands occupied. DLR plans to contribute to Deep Speech directly, and also have engineers work on integrating Deep Speech into their system hardware.
== April 20th, 2020 ==
* '''New VR Releases (Part 1)''' -- The Servo team published a new release of Firefox Reality to the Microsoft store. Compared to the last release there are significant performance improvements, support for both VR and HoloLens 2 headsets, support for modern Babylon.js, three.js and A-frame web content, and more!
