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Day after day, week after week, month after month, users spot Ubuntu in places like supermodels ads, while helping Brazil's cutting-edge scientists to develope driverless cars, as part of educative projects, on live demos conducted by globally-known CEOs, etc.

Along with the mentioned exciting use-cases, there are numerous users across the Earth expressing their love for Ubuntu in interesting, ingenious and enjoyable ways, like for example, imprinting Ubuntu's logo on top of a deliciously-looking cake.

Along with core applications, swiping gestures, side-stage behaviors, etc, Ubuntu Touch and Ubuntu's overall converged vision are bringing into the Ubuntu world serious, modern and innovative components.

Mir and Unity 8 are to power Ubuntu in the future, exciting software to be paired with a new notification system, namely, NotifyOSD Next Generation.

Across the latest months, Ubuntu Touch has received significant improvements, features and polished elements, development energy aimed at delivering a powerful Ubuntu Touch experience in the upcoming months.

As part of the mentioned solid advancements, Ubuntu Touch Core Apps have witnessed new and new features, being gradually shifted from mockups to usable applications with interesting functionalities and up-to-date capabilities.

Smart Scopes is a complex project designed in mind with transforming the Dash into a powerful, advanced and highly-reliable search place.

Essentially, in Ubuntu 13.10 the user will be able to search through a diverse set of scopes (data sources) directly from the Dash home, search process featuring tweakable search capabilities (like for example, users will be able to disable a certain scope directly from the Dash with a single click).

Almost on a daily basis, the internets witness new features, enhancements and improvements added to Ubuntu Touch, aimed at transforming the overall Ubuntu Touch project into a usable, stable, reliable and polished OS in the upcoming months.

Yesterday, the second online Ubuntu Developer Summit reached its end, containing a significant number of sessions related to Saucy Salamander, video-sessions announcing an exciting Ubuntu 13.10 release.

Along with upcoming features, Saucy has already started to receive updated applications, introducing interesting new features.

Rhythmbox 2.99 landed in Saucy via the regular updates, bringing fresh additions and support for up-to-date software.

Google GLASS is a wearable computer featuring a head-mounted display, futuristic project developed by Google.

Basically, Google GLASS presents informations similarly to a smartphone with interaction gestures and Internet connectivity capabilities, while presetting itself as a minimalist thin device.

The Google developers have recently announced the GLASS' hacking support, demoing how a user can gain root access and therefore run various applications on the cutting-edge device.

Today, the 16th of May 2013, the second online UDS reached its completion, proving itself as successful with interesting sessions, numerous developers, numerous teams and an overall massive amount of openly-presented informations.

Ubuntu SDK, Core Apps, Unity 8 on Mir, Ubuntu Server, community roundtables, desktop polish are among the topics thoroughly addressed by the developers, online event accessible via Google+ to interested users from across the world with zero requirements (like for example, account requirements).

Mir and Unity 8 are software currently targeted for development, strengthening and refining, software that is to be the base for Ubuntu's exciting converged experience.

While at the online Ubuntu Developer Summit, the developers behind Ubuntu Touch, Mir and Unity 8 have been gathered into a video-session with the purpose of listing a set of probable availabilities of the mentioned Ubuntu components related to Saucy Salamander.

Ubuntu 13.04 ships by default Firefox, powerful web-browser that incorporates numerous features and non-default add-ons.

In the same time, via Ubuntu Software Center, the user is able to install Chromium, an open-source fast web-browser featuring numerous functionalities and non-default add-ons.