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== June 22nd, 2020 ==
* '''Five In A Row''' -- Stack Overflow just released the results of their annual developer survey, gathering insights from nearly 65,000 developers in 186 countries. And, for the fifth year in a row, Rust was the most loved programming language. Eighty six percent of developers using Rust said they plan to continue to do so, nearly twenty percentage points ahead of the second-place finisher, TypeScript. More details are in the full [https://insights.stackoverflow.com/survey/2020#most-loved-dreaded-and-wanted published report], including developer work habits, how developers deal with “getting stuck” on a tough problem, and general insights from around the world,
* '''New Insights into Web Compatibility''' -- Our [https://developer.mozilla.com/ Developer Portal], which helps developers stay up to date on all Mozilla’s resources and activities, just launched a [https://developer.mozilla.com/topics/web-compatibility/ whole new section] detailing Mozilla's contributions toward web compatibility--and why it matters. You’ll find articles about how Firefox support web compatibility, how MDN’s browser compatibility data helps developers build compatible sites, the benefits of standards, and more.
* '''Publications''' -- Last week Yulia Startsev finished her three-part Twitch stream “Compiler Compiler”, providing a guided tour of how the JavaScript Specification is implemented in SpiderMonkey, the JavaScript engine in Firefox. You’ll find an overview in her [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2020/06/compiler-compiler-working-on-a-javascript-engine/ Hacks blog post] along with links to the recorded stream. More episodes are planned, so stay tuned. And the prestigious Journal Machine Vision and Applications published a paper co-authored by Eren Golge in our Speech/ML team. Entitled “[https://link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007/s00138-020-01079-0?sharing_token=btObwLVrTcSX4DR_YCrWmPe4RwlQNchNByi7wbcMAY6mjhb1ofXVLFz2OQhsq0gBmqbYcp-kldmiz958RRZpXYrfxG-WKdCc8dF105FZfk3jYDakJ1NtSCdHbro5ABXrOvW5SwPM7isP-lO0mwsrnXm6HHMEEsugbM1Iw1eGEck%3D I-ME: iterative model evolution for learning from weakly labeled images and videos]” the paper describes new and improved ways to recognize elements of the real world, in this case images and videos, even when you only have limited training data upon which to operate.
== June 8th, 2020 ==
* '''Smart Development Hack''' -- In April the EU along with several government and corporate partners [https://ec.europa.eu/international-partnerships/news/coronavirus-eu-calls-smartdevelopmenthack_en announced] “[https://toolkit-digitalisierung.de/en/smartdevelopmenthack/ Smart Development Hack]”, a global hackathon to find and fund innovative solutions that could boost response to coronavirus. The ten winners out of over a thousand entries included “[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr0ikab5Gqg Mbaza - an AI Based COVID-19 Chatbot]”, which will provide access to valuable COVID-19 information in plain language on any phone at any time. Mbaza is the work of [https://digitalumuganda.com/ Digital Umuganda], a startup in Rwanda that has been working with us as part of our Common Voice and Deep Speech community. Using the [https://www.newtimes.co.rw/technology/rwandan-startup-wins-over-rwf3-billion-covid-19-hackathon award funding] Digital Umuganda will be able to develop speech recognition for under-represented languages Kinyarwanda and Swahili, and contribute to the broader impact of our voice work.
