Jellyfin and Plex Media Server are two options for cataloging all your media to stream it to supported hardware. Plex is the more popular option and is heavily marketed to consumers but Jellyfin is making waves in the self-hosted community. Both have advantages and drawbacks, but I'll show you some ways Jellyfin is the better media streaming platform.

If you're looking for a new smartphone, you can go the usual iPhone or Android routes, but a foldable is the exciting choice, especially the Pixel 9 Pro Fold. But foldable phones are expensive, so you'll need to make sure yours is protected with a solid case.

Image: NASA NASA administrator Bill Nelson announced today that US astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore will return next February with the SpaceX Crew-9 mission after spending more than 80 days aboard the International Space Station (ISS).According to NASA Commercial Crew Program manager Steve Stich, “As we got more and more data over the summer and understood the uncertainty of that data, it became very clear to us that the best course of action was to return Starliner uncrewed.” He said NASA found “there was just just too much uncertainty in the prediction of the thrusters.” “If we had a way to actually predict what the thrusters would do, for the undock, and all the way through the de-orbit burn, and through the separation sequence, I... Continue reading…

The Shokz OpenFit Air are a lightweight pair of open-ear buds that use air conduction. The bass is pretty good for open-ear fitness buds, but alas, my glasses foiled the ear hook design. Continue reading…

If you arent familiar with them, hypervisors are incredible tools that let you run virtual instances of actual operating systems. Whereas the more powerful hypervisors like Proxmox and ESXi have to be installed on top of the bare hardware, their Type-2 counterparts are far more accessible as they can be set up without wiping out your operating system.

Illustration: The Verge Android users participating in a pilot program can now add their California driver’s licenses to Google Wallet. The “mobile driver’s license” program is currently open to 1.5 million Californians, and previously only allowed digital IDs in the state’s “CA DMV Wallet” app for iOS and Android.“It’s never been easier to keep a digital driver’s license and identification card in California,” said Governor Gavin Newsom in a statement yesterday, “The state continues to work to offer convenience for those opting into the mobile driver’s license program, now with the option of using Google Wallet.”California announced earlier this month that it will also allow Apple Wallet digital IDs soon. Those in the pilot will still have to carry their... Continue reading…

Plenty of people upgrade their phones yearly or every two years. Some people upgrade less frequently than that, but the point is that chances are, you've had an old phone lying around that you weren't sure what to do with. While there are a ton of great projects that you can use for your phone, Nextcloud is one that I personally found a lot of interest in. You can basically turn an old phone into a NAS, but in a more robust way than just remotely accessing it and copying files back and forth.

The Era 100 might resemble a roll of paper towels, but it remains our default smart speaker. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Sonos’ Labor Day sale is bringing discounts to a variety of smart speakers and soundbars until September 2nd, many of which are on sale elsewhere for the same price. Both the Sonos Era 100 and portable Move 2 are 20 percent off, which means you can get the Era 100 from Amazon, Best Buy, and Sonos for $199 ($50 off) or the Move 2 for $359 ($90 off) via the same retailers (Amazon, Best Buy, and Sonos).The Era 100 is an easy recommendation for a Sonos-connected Wi-Fi speaker, regardless of where you’d like to put it in your house. It’s compact enough to fit in most places but offers robust volume and quality sound, which gives your music some depth without getting too bassy. The Move 2, on the other hand, is kind of like an Era 100 that... Continue reading…

Image: Pokémon A new all-Pokémon FAST channel is bringing the first 22 seasons of the original Pokémon anime, courtesy of Canadian distributor WildBrain. The channel will kick off its availability in the US, with Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand to follow, according to WildBrain’s announcement this week.Melissa Pearce, senior director of media licensing at The Pokémon Company International, called FAST TV is “an ideal platform” to connect with audiences and offer “accessible and curated content in a family-friendly environment.” WildBrain distributes other ad-supported channels that include properties like Super Mario Bros., Sonic the Hedgehog, and Inspector Gadget, and its channels exist on platforms like Tubi and Pluto. The announcement... Continue reading…

Image: The Verge AI audio startup ElevenLabs has now made its text-to-speech Reader app available across the world, adding support for 32 different languages — including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Mandarin, and Hindi.The app, which is available on both iOS and Android, was first released in June in the US, UK, and Canada. It allows users to listen to PDFs, articles, newsletters, ePub files or “any other text content” according to the developer, but that support seemingly doesn’t extend to files from Kindle or Apple Books. There’s a good selection of AI-generated voices available for the text-to-speech tool, including deceased celebrities like Judy Garland, James Dean, and Burt Reynolds. The few I’ve listened to are impressive enough to avoid... Continue reading…

There are plenty of things to consider when assembling a PC from old server parts. If youre going for a budget Xeon build, youll need to decide whether you want a single or dual CPU motherboard. Depending on your workload, you may also need to pick out plenty of ECC memory modules to avoid getting bottlenecked on the RAM front.

Valve has finally, officially announced Deadlock, in the most minimal way imaginable. The game now has a Steam page that lists Valve as its developer and publisher, and a simple notice: Deadlock is in early development with lots of temporary art and experimental gameplay. Access is currently limited to friend invite via our playtesters.Valve provides no other details, just an animated teaser image. (You can see a still screenshot of it above.) The system requirements only mention that the game requires a 64-bit processor and operating system.While the game has ostensibly been a secret until now, details about it have been trickling out for months. Information started to emerge from closed playtests in May. By August, tens of... Continue reading…