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36 posts from October 2019
Digest #2019.10.14 – The Ultimate Learning Machine
By anaqvi, 14 October 2019
The Ultimate Learning Machine – Babies… This article dives into how machines are trained and their motivation for learning compared to a human baby. Guess...
Onboarding edge applications on the dev environment
By anaqvi, 11 October 2019
Adoption of edge computing is taking hold as organisations realise the need for highly distributed applications, services and data at the extremes of a...
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...