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(PR) Sonarworks Unveils the Latest Update of its Flagship Reference Product

Sonarworks, the company behind precision audio software used by Grammy-Award winning music creators in over 70,000 professional recording studios around the world, announces today the launch of its all-new and improved speaker and headphone calibration software SoundID Reference (currently known as Sonarworks Reference). Continuing its commitment to making a simple and affordable software that delivers reliable reference sound for creators, Sonarworks is adding new features and usability updates including Custom Target, Translation Check, improved systemwide drivers for Windows users, and many other


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LABWC Is The Newest Stacking Wayland Compositor

The LABWC Wayland compositor advertises itself as an Openbox alternative and just saw its inaugural release.

LABWC is a Wayland stacking compositor based on the WLROOTS library engineered by the Sway folks. So while it's "yet another Wayland compositor", WLROOTS is doing much of the heavy lifting.

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Daffodil Promoted To Being An Apache Top-Level Project

Following the recent promotions of DataSketches and ECharts , the Apache Software Foundation has promoted Daffodil as their newest top-level project. Apache Daffodil is an open-source universal interchange implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL).

The Data Format Description Language (DFDL) standard is a modeling language for text and binary data in a standardized manner. DFDL basically aims to make data more portable thanks to providing an open framework for describing any data format.

What became the Apache Daffodil project was first conceived more than a decade

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Daffodil Promoted To Being An Apache Top-Level Project

Following the recent promotions of DataSketches and ECharts , the Apache Software Foundation has promoted Daffodil as their newest top-level project. Apache Daffodil is an open-source universal interchange implementation of the Data Format Description Language (DFDL).

The Data Format Description Language (DFDL) standard is a modeling language for text and binary data in a standardized manner. DFDL basically aims to make data more portable thanks to providing an open framework for describing any data format.

What became the Apache Daffodil project was first conceived more than a decade

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PyTorch 1.8 Released With AMD ROCm Binaries

PyTorch 1.8 was released on Thursday as the newest version of this widely-used machine learning library. Exciting many will be easier AMD Radeon ROCm support with Python wheels now provided for that Radeon Open eCosystem support.

PyTorch 1.8 brings improvements to distributed training with pipeline parallelism support that will bolster models not fitting on a single GPU device. ability to extend the PyTorch dispatcher for a new back-end in C++, and perhaps most exciting is AMD GPU binaries now being official/

Starting with PyTorch 1

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PyTorch 1.8 Released With AMD ROCm Binaries

PyTorch 1.8 was released on Thursday as the newest version of this widely-used machine learning library. Exciting many will be easier AMD Radeon ROCm support with Python wheels now provided for that Radeon Open eCosystem support.

PyTorch 1.8 brings improvements to distributed training with pipeline parallelism support that will bolster models not fitting on a single GPU device. ability to extend the PyTorch dispatcher for a new back-end in C++, and perhaps most exciting is AMD GPU binaries now being official/

Starting with PyTorch 1

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There's Finally An Easy Way To Track Mesa's OpenCL Support

While Mesa is most well known for providing OpenGL and Vulkan open-source drivers on Linux systems, via the "Clover" Gallium3D state tracker is also maturing support for OpenCL. But until now it hasn't been straight-forward to track the state of Mesa's OpenCL supported versions and extensions.

Hitting Mesa 21.1-devel this weekend is finally the OpenCL status reporting to the features documentation ( docs/features.txt ). The OpenCL status reporting is done in a similar manner to

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Google's New Lyra Voice Codec + AV1 Aim For Video Chats Over 56kbps Modems In 2021

Google's AI team has announced "Lyra" as a very low bit-rate codec for speech compression designed for use-cses like WebRTC and other video chats... With a bit rate so low that when combined with the likes of the AV1 video codec could potentially allow video chats over 56kbps Internet connections.

Google engineers formally announced Lyra on Thursday as this new codec to challenge the likes of Opus. Lyra leverages machine learning to make it suitable for delivering extremely low bit-rate speech compression

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Universal design for learning in computing | Hello World #15

In our brand-new issue of Hello World magazine, Hayley Leonard from our team gives a primer on how computing educators can apply the Universal Design for Learning framework in their lessons. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework for considering how tools and resources can be used to reduce barriers and support all learners.…

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Clang LTO Support Merged For Linux 5.12 Including ARM64 + x86_64

Pop open the champagne as the in-development Linux 5.12 kernel will be able to support link-time optimizations (LTO) in conjunction with the LLVM Clang compiler on not only AArch64 (64-bit ARM) but also x86_64.

Last week I noted that Clang LTO support had been submitted but at the time was not clear if Linus Torvalds was willing to land it given his past comments around LTO'ing the kernel. With that pull request it was also