Internet of Things

Canonical
15 May 2018

Trust and security in the Snap Store

Article Desktop

Last Friday (11 May 2018) we learned that a snap was mining cryptocurrency in the background while the application was running. The practical implication of that is the overuse of local resources on a user’s system, well beyond what a typical application would use, consuming more energy than would be expected. The net...

Canonical
15 May 2018

Canonical
2 May 2018

Introducing developer notifications for snap security updates

Article Desktop

For some time, we’ve wanted a mechanism to alert snap publishers to security updates which affect their snaps. All the pieces have come together and we are now sending alerts via email. Stated more precisely, publishers who use ‘stage-packages’ in their snapcraft.yaml will now be alerted when Ubuntu Security Notices...

Canonical
2 May 2018

Robin Winslow
20 April 2018

Design and Web team summary – 20 April 2018

Article Cloud and server

Welcome to the latest work and updates from the design and web team. We manage all web projects across Canonical – from www.ubuntu.com to the Juju GUI we help to bring beauty and consistency to all the web projects. MAAS Table consistency and improvements MAAS UI contains a lot of data in tables, posing an...

Robin Winslow
20 April 2018

Jamie Bennett
18 April 2018

Eclipse 2018 survey: The IoT landscape, what it empirically looks like

Article Internet of Things

Every year the Eclipse Foundation along with other sponsors conduct an online survey of the IoT market looking at what technologies are being used and how. The 2018 edition of that survey has just been made available and I thought it would be a great idea to look at some of the overarching trends. The Internet

Jamie Bennett
18 April 2018

Sarah Dickinson
16 April 2018

BotsAndUs build a social robot on Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

As robotics become increasingly prevalent in all sectors and expand outside the manufacturing industry, it is no surprise that IDC predicts worldwide spending on robotics to reach $103bn in 2018. A UK based startup, BotsAndUs, are looking to capitalise on this opportunity and have created an advanced social robot – Bo –...

Sarah Dickinson
16 April 2018

Anthony Dillon
10 April 2018

Design and Web team summary – 10 April 2018

Article Cloud and server

MAAS squad Homepage A/B test completes The team ran an A/B test on two homepage designs. Based on Google analytics experiment data and Crazy egg scroll-map data for both A and B versions. The resulting winner was B. Which has now been made the permanent homepage. MAAS Vanilla integration teething fixes The MAAS squad have

Anthony Dillon
10 April 2018

Guest
5 April 2018

The Nextcloud Box: a review of building an IoT device with snaps

Article Internet of Things

In 2016, Canonical, Nextcloud and WDLabs introduced the Nextcloud Box, the first IoT style device running with snaps out of the box. Besides sales of nearly 2K boxes before Western Digital shut down their research division WDLabs late last year, the snap been extremely popular with some days hitting over 10,000...

Guest
5 April 2018

Anthony Dillon
27 March 2018

Design and Web team summary – 27 March 2018

Article Cloud and server

The design and web team work on a wide array of projects throughout Canonical. Therefore, we are split into seven squads to handle different aspects of the company. Here is a rundown of the work we completed this week by squad. Snappy squad New snapcraft.io features We implemented a darker themed header across snapcraft.io and

Anthony Dillon
27 March 2018

Kyle Fazzari
16 March 2018

Your first robot: Sharing with others [5/5]

Article Desktop

This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we discussed methods of control, did a little math, and wrote the ROS driver for our robot. But it still required several nodes to be running at once, and sharing

Kyle Fazzari
16 March 2018

Kyle Fazzari
9 March 2018

Your first robot: The driver [4/5]

Article Desktop

This is the fourth blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we worked on getting data out of the wireless controller and into ROS in a format meant for controlling differential drive robots like ours: the Twist message. Today we’re going to create

Kyle Fazzari
9 March 2018

Canonical
21 February 2018

Canonical announces Ubuntu Core across Rigado’s IoT gateways

News Canonical announcements

Rigado customers will benefit from open source, cost-effective, secure software in their commercial IoT deployments London, UK – 21st February 2018 – Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, today announced that Ubuntu Core will be deployed across Rigado’s Edge Connectivity gateway solutions, further establishing Ubuntu...

Canonical
21 February 2018

Sarah Dickinson
16 February 2018

Snapcraft through the eyes of its biggest community contributor

Article Desktop

If you’ve spent any time in the Snapcraft forum, it’s quite likely you’ve come across Dani Llewellyn – a keen community advocate or self-proclaimed Snapcrafter. Dani has always had a passion for computing and is completely self-taught. Outside of the community, Dani is a freelance WordPress developer. After getting into...

Sarah Dickinson
16 February 2018

Kyle Fazzari
11 February 2018

Your first robot: The controller [3/5]

Article Desktop

This is the third blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post you were introduced to the Robot Operating System (ROS), and got your robot moving by ROSifying one of the CamJam worksheets. Today we’re going to move beyond the CamJam worksheets, and work

Kyle Fazzari
11 February 2018

elopio
3 February 2018

Snapcraft Summit summary – day 5

Article Desktop

This Snapcraft Summit is coming to an end. We had five days full of hard and fun work, together with many friends from many other projects that are part of our ecosystem. It was amazing to see the kind of collaboration that snapcraft brings to the Linux world. The engineering, advocacy, desktop and design teams

elopio
3 February 2018

Internet of Things

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