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== September 24th, 2018 ==
* '''Firefox Reality ships!''' -- [[File:FirefoxReality.jpg|100px|thumb|right|]] [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/09/18/firefox-reality-now-available/ Firefox Reality] passed final review and was released last Tuesday, September 18 on Google, Oculus, and HTC VR stores to great response -- we’ve spotted 94 articles in nine countries just in the first 3 days. Our Mixed Reality team put a lot of effort into designing a browser that really works for virtual reality, leading to features like full speech input for searching the web, a feed of amazing VR content integrated into the Firefox Reality home screen, and private browsing enabled by default.
* '''Tech Speakers Meetup''' -- [[File:TechSpeakersParis.jpg|100px|thumb|right|]] Our Tech Speakers program meetup took place last week in Mozilla’s Paris office. Thirty five active Speakers representing more than a dozen countries took part in the event, which combined coaching on presentation techniques from a four expert conference speakers with hands-on workshops on ET projects including Project Things, Firefox Reality on Oculus Go, WebAssembly, and Rust. One lucky speaker won a raffled Oculus Go, and twenty of them took home a Mozilla Smart Home Kit -- Raspberry Pi 3 (Things Gateway) and three programmable "things" to monitor and control.
* '''DeepSpeech v0.2 release''' -- Last week the Machine Learning team released [https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases/v0.2.0 DeepSpeech v0.2]. The main new feature is streaming support, which lets users transcribe audio live, as it's being recorded. It also includes much lower CPU and memory utilization, and it's our first release that included Common Voice data in the training! We published [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/09/speech-recognition-deepspeech/ Streaming RNNs in TensorFlow] on Hacks detailing the changes and improvements.
