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 == November 20th, 2017 ==
-* '''Quantum Propulsion''' -- Firefox Quantum’s release last week was a ‘’really’’ big deal, and those of us in ET were especially proud to usher in the release with Lin Clark’s excellent article “[https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/entering-the-quantum-era-how-firefox-got-fast-again-and-where-its-going-to-get-faster/ How Firefox Got Fast Again]” on the Mozilla Hacks blog. Lin’s article was such a hit that it’s currently the 23rd most up-voted post on Hacker News ‘’ever’’, beating out both the death of Google Reader and the debut of Ubuntu on Windows. Lin’s article and the Firefox Quantum release notes were the most popular two posts in the past month. We’ve also had a lot of positive pick-up on our related articles, including Salva de la Puente’s overview of [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/a-super-stable-webvr-user-experience-thanks-to-firefox-quantum/ Quantum’s impact on WebVR].
+* '''Quantum Propulsion''' -- Firefox Quantum’s release last week was a ''really'' big deal, and those of us in ET were especially proud to usher in the release with Lin Clark’s excellent article “[https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/entering-the-quantum-era-how-firefox-got-fast-again-and-where-its-going-to-get-faster/ How Firefox Got Fast Again]” on the Mozilla Hacks blog. Lin’s article was such a hit that it’s currently the 23rd most up-voted post on Hacker News ''ever'', beating out both the death of Google Reader and the debut of Ubuntu on Windows. Lin’s article and the Firefox Quantum release notes were the most popular two posts in the past month. We’ve also had a lot of positive pick-up on our related articles, including Salva de la Puente’s overview of [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/11/a-super-stable-webvr-user-experience-thanks-to-firefox-quantum/ Quantum’s impact on WebVR].
 * '''Are you talking to me?''' -- [https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech Project DeepSpeech] continues to train a speech-to-text model that we plan to release by the end of the month. The team is preparing press materials and packaging the code so it’s easy to use from C++, Python, Node.js, etc. Stay tuned, as we may put out a call for volunteers to help test the engine in the near future.
 * '''See y'all in Austin''' -- We’re eagerly anticipating the Y’all Hands in Austin next month. For those of you who will be there, Emerging Technologies will host a few special sessions that we’d love to see you attend: