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.
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  • Steven Spielberg Got Old

    Steven Spielberg Got Old

    Alex Cranz

    You might have missed it, basking in the glow of entertaining masterpieces such as Jurassic Park, Jaws and E.T., but Steven Spielberg, the architect of your childhood, is old. The director turned 71 in December and that does not, by itself, indicate he is old. Jane Fonda, for example, is 80-something and talks about social…

  • Microsoft Wants You To Touch The VR World With A Giant CLAW

    Microsoft Wants You To Touch The VR World With A Giant CLAW

    Alex Cranz

    What Microsoft Research lacks in cinematography skills, it’s making up for with super-fun solutions to virtual reality’s biggest problem: The lack of real-world feedback. In a blog post published late last week, Microsoft detailed four different experimental methods for delivering haptic feedback, including a cane that would allow the visually impaired to “see” in VR,…

  • This Guy Is Selling A Whole Mess Of Apple Prototypes On eBay

    This Guy Is Selling A Whole Mess Of Apple Prototypes On eBay

    Alex Cranz

    Steve Wozniak’s name may be on the shipping label for one of the devices, but it isn’t the Woz selling it or more than a dozen other Apple prototypes currently available on eBay. Seller Hap Plain just happened to pick up the Cinema Display with Woz’s name on the label while on the hunt for…