Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox
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If you want an example of how user concerns do not drive software development, check out this Google-backed API
A nascent web API called getInstalledRelatedApps offers a glimpse of why online privacy remains such an uncertain proposition.
In development since 2015, Google has been experimenting with the API since the release of Chrome 59 in 2017. As its name suggests, it is designed to let web apps and sites determine whether a corresponding native app is installed on a user's device.
The purpose of the API, as described in the proposed specification, sounds laudable. More and more, the docs state, users will have web apps and natives apps from the same source installed on the same device and as the apps' feature sets converge and overlap, it will become important to be able to distinguish between the two, so users don't receive two sets of notifications, for example.
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Mozilla Releases DeepSpeech 0.6 With Better Performance, Leaner Speech-To-Text Engine
DeepSpeech 0.6 currently achieved a 7.5% word error rate for this open-source speech-to-text engine. The new release has various API changes, better training performance with TensorFlow 1.14 cuDNN RNN support for their training graph, trimmed down their language model to be using the top 500k words, adding various data augmentation techniques, a tool for bulk transcribing large audio files, and various other changes.
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[Older] Give Firefox a chance for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
Using Firefox gives you peace of mind and keeps you away from the advertising companies constantly following you around, profiling you and tempting you to purchase their products.
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