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IBM provides a truly beautiful, Helvetica-like typeface with IBM Plex. The typeface is open source and may be downloaded and used freely. IBM hopes for the widest possible adoption of the typeface. Thanks Achim

Ghost Minitaur ‘Ghost Minitaur’ is a 4-legged robot that can traverse tough terrain, jump, climb stairs, open doors, and even climb fences. The company hopes it could be used as a platform for “developing commercial unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), advanced gait and locomotion research, and machine learning and training applications.” It’s crazy how far robotics has come, and the thing is apparently powered by a Raspberry Pi (see 0:45). ...

Actually, the iPhone X is a real bargain. Source: @lukew The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense.

HomeKit is supported by an increasing number of IoT manufacturers. Until now, though, it hasn’t been easy to find out which devices specifically rely on HomeKit. With Projekt HomeKitty you can now get a nice overview of all HomeKit-enabled devices on the market. HomeKitty is a crowdsourced website that collects all accessories that support the HomeKit protocol. — HomeKitty Because it’s maintained Wikipedia-style — by users for users — new products are usually added quite quickly. Great project. ...

The iPhone 7 is the first iPhone without a headphone jack. In the first few months, there was a lot of complaining and joking in the media and on social networks. Now there is a huge selection of wireless headphones, so the lack of connectivity should no longer be a problem. Scotty Allen, an American engineer, has managed to bring back the jack. He documented the development in the following video. I really enjoyed watching him do it. ...