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36 posts from October 2019

Chromium in Ubuntu – deb to snap transition

By Alan Pope, 10 October 2019

We have recently announced that we are transitioning the Chromium deb package to the snap in Ubuntu 19.10. Such a transition is not trivial, and there have...

Kubectl and friends as a snap

By anaqvi, 9 October 2019

At Canonical, we build solutions to simplify the lives of our users. We want to reduce complexity, costs, and barriers to entry. When we built the Canonical...

A reference architecture for secure IoT device Management

By Galem KAYO, 9 October 2019

When it comes to IoT device management, the core challenge is the following: how to implement a solution that is both secure and perfectly suited to the...

Designing an open source machine learning platform for autonomous vehicles

By Galem KAYO, 9 October 2019

Self-driving cars are one of the most notable technology breakthroughs of recent years. The progress that has been made from the DARPA challenges in the early...

The State of Robotics – September 2019

By Rhys Davies, 8 October 2019

The Ubuntu robotics team presents, The State of Robotics. A monthly blog series that will round up exciting news in robotics, discuss projects using ROS, and...

Container registry for Kubernetes with GitLab

By Peter Jose De Sousa, 8 October 2019

Container orchestration solutions such as Kubernetes allow development teams to be quick and agile with their software deployments. “One of the main features...

Five Key Kubernetes Resources for IoT

By Galem KAYO, 7 October 2019

IoT workloads are moving from central clouds to the edge, for reasons pertaining to latency, privacy, autonomy, and economics. However, workloads spread over...

Digest #2019.10.07 – Machine Learning in Space? Agriculture?

By anaqvi, 7 October 2019

How NASA uses Machine Learning – If you think the Earth is the only planet with Machine Learning you were wrong. The Mars Rover learning its path and...

Robotics security: What is SROS 2?

By Kyle Fazzari, 4 October 2019

We at Canonical have been hard at work on the security features of version 2 of the Robot Operating System (ROS 2). However, if we lift our collective heads...

The smart dump plugin

By Igor Ljubuncic, 4 October 2019

As you probably already know, snapcraft supports a range of plugins, designed to aid developers in making their snaps in an easier, faster, more transparent...

ROSCon Japan 2019!

By Rhys Davies, 3 October 2019

ROSCon Japan 2019 was a resounding success. We took in the keynote speech from Ryan Gariepy, Co-founder and CTO of Clearpath Robotics. We demoed the first...

5G Core implementation: Challenges in the field

By Tytus Kurek, 1 October 2019

With an emerging demand for higher speeds, lower latency, and increasing connection density, telecommunications providers have started implementing 5G. While...