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Key Takeaways Public domain movies are free, diverse, and fascinating additions to your Plex library, offering classics and historical films. Reliable sources like the Internet Archive, Public Domain Torrents, & the Library of Congress provide Plex-compatible formats. By organizing movies in MP4 or MKV, you can add them to your Plex media collection. Plex is … Read more

Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ROSCon 2024: 21–23 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK ICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARK Cybathlon … Read more

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Just in time for Halloween 2024, Meta has unveiled Meta Spirit LM, the company’s first open-source multimodal language model capable of seamlessly integrating text and speech inputs and outputs. As such, it competes directly with OpenAI’s … Read more

Amazon/ZDNET It appears to be streaming device season, as Amazon joins Google and Roku in launching a new product. Amazon has unceremoniously introduced the Fire TV Stick HD to simplify its offering of Fire TV streaming devices, replacing both the Fire TV Stick and Fire TV Stick Lite.  Though Amazon didn’t formally announce it, the … Read more

It’s been over a year since Peter Parker and Miles Morales joined forces for their epic crossover adventure game on the Sony PlayStation 5. Now they are swinging their way to PCs early next year. Sony announced at New York Comic Con today that Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is getting a PC release on January 30, … Read more

The world of 3D printing has been gaining much interest and popularity in recent years. But if you’ve already dabbled in 3D printing, you know it can turn into a pretty expensive hobby. Not only are the materials often priced at a premium, but the popularity of the art has also increased demand, which means … Read more

For months we’ve known that senseis played by Ralph Macchio and Jackie Chan would be teaming up for a new film set in the Karate Kid universe. But, in a world where the Netflix show Cobra Kai exists, what exactly is this movie? Well, today at New York Comic Con, Sony finally pulled the curtain … Read more

Twenty years ago, MySpace and Facebook ushered in an inspired age of social media. Today, the sticky parables of online life are inescapable: Connection is a convenience as much as it is a curse. A lot’s changed since those early years. In June, the US surgeon general, Vivek H. Murthy, called for a warning label … Read more

Well, they’ve taken it to the next level. Oscar-nominated actor and Elmo confidante Andrew Garfield has finally gone on a “date” with Amanda Dimoldenberg, the creator and host of the 10-year-old YouTube chat show, Chicken Shop Date. And, yes, they are very cute together. Garfield and Dimoldenberg have generated a fair amount of buzz thanks … Read more

A smart lock is an easy solution to some common problems. Locked yourself out? Need to let a friend in to water the plants? Your latchkey kid lost their key? Hands are full, and it’s raining cats and dogs? A smart lock solves all of these problems and more.  One of the best smart home … Read more