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The rebirth of Mapzen, new projects bolster PyTorch, faster AI object detection, and other open source news

opensource.com - Sat, 04/25/2020 - 15:00

In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at the rebirth of Mapzen, two new projects to bolster PyTorch, new open source object detection software, and more!


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Intel Tiger Lake Thunderbolt/USB4 Support Is Coming With Linux 5.8

Phoronix - Sat, 04/25/2020 - 14:50
Adding to the growing list of changes building up for Linux 5.8 this summer is now having Tiger Lake Thunderbolt/USB4 support...

Mozilla Releases DeepSpeech 0.7 As Their Great Speech-To-Text Engine

Phoronix - Sat, 04/25/2020 - 12:04
One of the lesser known Mozilla software efforts is DeepSpeech as a speech-to-text engine built atop TensorFlow with CPU and GPU (CUDA) acceleration. Friday marked a new release of this DeepSpeech software that is yielding great results for converting spoken audio streams to text...

A Fix Is Out For The Intel Ice Lake Performance Drop On Linux With The Dell XPS 7390

Phoronix - Sat, 04/25/2020 - 07:39
Earlier this week I highlighted the Dell XPS 7390 "Ice Lake" ultrabook seeing a big performance drop on recent versions of the Linux kernel. Intel engineers seem to have sorted it out and now have a solution in place, which affects those running Linux 5.4 or newer...

Wine 5.7 Released With More Progress On D3D Vulkan Backend, USB Device Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 04/25/2020 - 04:16
Wine 5.7 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release and it's a fun one with multiple interesting advancements...

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