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.
  • To Make Its Awesome TVs Better, LG Is Looking Deep Inside

    To Make Its Awesome TVs Better, LG Is Looking Deep Inside

    I’ve been dreading this moment for the last few years. The moment a company would tell me all about its new TV and spend more time on the processor than the display itself. That moment finally came last month when I sat in on a call for LG’s 2018 line up of televisions. While the…


  • Google’s Whole Hardware Thing Is Confusing The Hell Out Of Me

    Google’s Whole Hardware Thing Is Confusing The Hell Out Of Me

    Compiling the best and worst gadgets list this year I took note of a very sad fact: Google was on both lists. In its second year thoroughly devoted to the hardware game, Google managed to create earbuds so bad that storing them in their charging case requires a video explanation, and a laptop so fantastic…