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Introducing Ubuntu 12.04 ESM (Extended Security Maintenance)

by Canonical on 14 March 2017

  Canonical announced the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) release almost 5 years ago, on April 26, 2012. As with all LTS releases, Canonical has provided...

Internet of Things

The smart multi-personality vending machine

by Maarten Ectors on 13 March 2017

This vending machine is unlike you have seen before. It is a telecom operator in a box. Minutes later it cures the chronic ill via an Uber for Doctors and...

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Internet of Things

This elevator catches intruders, saves lives, generates money, …

by Maarten Ectors on 13 March 2017

The world is becoming software defined and most people don’t realise what this means until software apps and app stores invade their day to day objects like...

Internet of Things

The cheapest and smartest mobile and IoT base station of MWC17

by Maarten Ectors on 11 March 2017

How to solve the top telecom industry problems (declining revenues, spiralling costs, slow time to market) and revolutionise the wireless industry? Open...

Internet of Things

Mobile World Congress 2017. One for the records – bigger and better!

by Canonical on 9 March 2017

Mobile World Congress was one for the record books! For starters, we blew-out last year’s number of visitors to Canonical’s Ubuntu booth. The mixture was...

Internet of Things

Fresh Snaps from February 2017

by Didier Roche on 9 March 2017

It’s that time of the month! Didier has put together a selection of top ten snaps written in February ranging from blockchain to graphical applications. To...

Cloud and server

GPUs and Kubernetes for deep learning — Part 3/3: Automating Tensorflow

by Samuel Cozannet on 9 March 2017

Here we are. After having spent 21min reading how to build a GPU Kubernetes cluster on AWS, 7min on adding EFS storage, you want to get to the real thing,...

Internet of Things

The $1M/month revenue generating fountain each smart city should have

by Maarten Ectors on 9 March 2017

What if smart cities can have fountains generating revenue instead of costing money? App Stores on Fountains, one of the many crazy ideas we demoed on MWC,...

Internet of Things

How to become a LimeSDR innovator?

by Maarten Ectors on 8 March 2017

After an amazing week at MWC, I got people reaching out to me that want to be a LimeSDR innovator. Here is a short guide on what to do and what we are working...

Cloud and server

GPUs and Kubernetes for deep learning — Part 2/3: Adding storage

by Samuel Cozannet on 7 March 2017

Earlier this week we built a GPU cluster and installed Kubernetes so that we can do some advanced data processing. What is the thing you need next right after...

Cloud and server

Canonical at Google Next 2017

by Alexander Gallagher on 6 March 2017

The dramatic emergence of open source software, together with the SaaS deployment model and cloud computing, has greatly reduced software costs for...