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The free streaming app everyone ignores has a better film catalog than Netflix

Alongside a wealth of paid TV and movie streaming apps, there are also FAST services. This stands for free ad-supported streaming television, and each such service offers a rotating selection of live and on-demand movies and TV shows. The catch is that you must watch ads throughout the movie or episodes. Considering it costs nothing to access, the short interruptions from these free streaming channels are a welcome bathroom or snack-refill break. FAST services typically don’t have up-to-date content, focusing more on older library classics. But you might find some movies that are less than five-to-10 years old. Content changes…

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These 7 sci-fi movies and shows actually have more science than fiction

Generally speaking, doing actual scientific research is slow and somewhat dull. You have to be very methodical and precise, and there are few to no opportunities for you to outrun alien bounty hunters or jump into the air dramatically as something explodes behind you. Sci-fi movies and TV show fix this problem by introducing all kinds of pulse-pounding antics, even if they have to bend the rules of science to do it. But there are some that try to have it both ways and mostly succeed. For All Mankind One small step for scientific accuracy, one giant leap for TV…

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Do this before adding anything to Plex or Jellyfin and you’ll thank yourself later

Setting up a media server feels straightforward until you import your first batch of files and Plex or Jellyfin hands you back a wall of missing posters, wrong titles, and episodes scattered across five different shows. The problem isn’t the software. Both platforms work exactly as designed, but you still have to put in your part. When your files don’t follow the naming patterns those scanners expect, the whole process falls apart, and so you should fix it before doing your first scan. Related This Plex plugin made my library perfect It’s all about the finishing touches, and this app…

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7 reasons we still need mechanical watches in the age of the Apple Watch

Sure, an Apple Watch can track your VO2 max, take an ECG and ping you the second your Uber arrives. By any sensible measure, it’s a more useful tool than a mechanical watch. And yet mechanical watches aren’t going anywhere. If anything, the high-end watch industry is having one of its strongest stretches in years. Here are seven reasons why I think tiny metal machines with no battery and no app stores still deserve a place on your wrist. 1. They can mark the moments that matter This is the most important point for me. A smartwatch is a gadget…

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I tested four free streaming apps for a month and one crushed the rest

Most of my TV happens on free, ad-supported apps. They run on my Samsung Frame sets in the main rooms, the TCL Roku TV in my basement, and my Hisense Canvas, and once I’d sorted out a setting buried in the TV that mattered more than any HDMI cable, the picture held up across all of them. What I still hadn’t settled was which free app actually had the stuff I wanted to watch. So four got a month of real use: Tubi, Pluto TV, The Roku Channel, and Plex’s free tier. Anytime I wanted to watch something, I jotted…

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I got to watch House of the Dragon Season 3 early — It’s bigger, bolder, and won’t please everyone

The third season of HBO’s Game of Thrones prequel series House of the Dragon is off and running on HBO. It’s the biggest fantasy event of the month, and expectations are high. Season 3 has to make up for the dip in energy at the end of Season 2, mollify fans angry that the show is straying from the source material, and ramp things up ahead of the big finish in the fourth and final season. Does it do those things? In order: yes, not really, and hopefully. There are NO SPOILERS in this advance review of House of the…

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