UKIP is due to launch its Scottish manifesto today, the BBC reports.
This blog has been privileged to have had a shot of the manifesto’s cover smuggled south of Gretna Green for the benefit of readers.
Enjoy! 🙂
The world’s first drone powered by the Ubuntu Linux distribution has arrived, Softpedia reports.
Erle Robotics, a Spanish company known for all types of robots powered by Linux, launched the world’s first Ubuntu-powered drone on 3rd May.
The Erle-Copter has a flight time of some 20 minutes and can handle a payload of 2 kg.
As regards price, the Erle-Copter Ubuntu Core special edition drone costs €399 for the very basic version, which won’t fly. If you want to buy an Erle-Copter that flies and has the basic components, you will have to pay at least €574.
“Erle-Copter Ubuntu Core special edition drone is a Ubuntu-powered quadcopter that includes official support for new app store for drones and robots. It has official ROS support, capable of the different flight modes and [is] ideal for outdoor operations,” says Erle Robotics’ Alejandro Hernández.
The version of Ubuntu used by the Erle-Copter is Snappy Ubuntu Core, a new version of Ubuntu for clouds and devices comprising a minimal server image with the same libraries as the conventional Ubuntu distribution, but applications are provided through a simpler mechanism.
Openwords, the foreign language learning app for the world’s open language data the world’s under-served languages, which was reported on some weeks ago by this blog (posts passim), recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.
At the time of writing the Kickstarter campaign has 16 days to go and aims to raise $10,000 to take the project to the next stage.
There are millions of people around the world who can’t learn the languages in which they’re interested.
While the learning of major languages like Chinese, Spanish and French are supported by large companies, these firms tend to ignore lesser-known languages.
Openwords is doing things differently to solve this problem. Openwords is mining data from the public domain assets like the Wiktionary to provide educational content for all the languages, large and small.
So far Openwords has mined data for 1,000 languages.
The Openwords app has various learning modules for vocabulary, hearing, typing, amongst others. In addition, the Openwords developers are working on simple sentence translation problems. Furthermore, learners have control over the content they want to learn.
Finally, Openwords will be an open source project.
The aim of the Kickstarter campaign is to raise $10,000, which will be enough to develop a beta model of the Openwords app.