Alex Cranz

Senior Consumer Tech Editor. Trained her dog to do fist bumps. Once wrote for Lifetime. Tips encouraged via Secure Drop, Proton Mail, or DM for Signal.
  • The Big Thing Facebook Didn’t Say About Oculus Quest

    The Big Thing Facebook Didn’t Say About Oculus Quest

    “This is it,” Mark Zuckerberg said to a crowd of developers and press at Facebook’s annual VR developers conference, Oculus Connect. “This is the all-in-one VR experience that we have been waiting for. It’s wireless, its got hand presence, six degrees of freedom, and it runs Rift-quality experiences.”


  • Is $1,900 Nvidia 2080 Ti Graphics Card Actually Worth It?

    Is $1,900 Nvidia 2080 Ti Graphics Card Actually Worth It?

    Nvidia wants you to spend about the same as an entirely new computer on its latest top-of-the-line graphics card, the GTX 2080 Ti. You could get a great laptop or a very solid desktop for the same price Nvidia’s new card commands. You could get a couple of PS4 Pros or Xbox Ones! You could…


  • Acer’s Latest 14-Inch Swift Is Super Dang Tiny

    Acer’s Latest 14-Inch Swift Is Super Dang Tiny

    At CES way back in January, Acer announced the Swift 7, claiming it had produced the thinnest 14-inch laptop ever. But sometime over the course of the last eight months, Acer has taken a chisel to the Swift 7, because while the guts are ostensibly the same, the Swift 7 announced yesterday at a press…