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.
  • Dell Inspiron 7000 Gaming Laptop: The Gizmodo Review

    Dell Inspiron 7000 Gaming Laptop: The Gizmodo Review

    If you’re trying to spend less than $2000 on a computer you plan to use daily, then you will find yourself making compromises. In the case of the Dell Inspiron 7000, you get a beefy gaming computer that can take whatever game designers throw at it. Unfortunately, its physical design is rife with trade-offs. Indeed,…


  • Humans Is Exploring All The Good Robo-Stuff Westworld Ignored

    Humans Is Exploring All The Good Robo-Stuff Westworld Ignored

    Humans is a sci-fi drama about a world where robots are as ubiquitous as smart phones. Much like in Westworld, the artificial lives born in Humans have been slaves to humanity’s whims, and just like in the finale of Westworld, a rebellion has formed. But Humans has had much better success with exploring precisely what…


  • Nintendo Switch Review: Plays Zelda Great, Doesn’t Do Much Else

    Nintendo Switch Review: Plays Zelda Great, Doesn’t Do Much Else

    After a shipping snafu with Amazon, I spent the better part of a day trying to track a Nintendo Switch down. I experienced exactly what many hopeful Switch owners will experience. And now I’ve spent the last few days living the Switch life, playing the best it has to offer and I can say, unequivocally,…


  • You Can Now Put Windows 98 On Your Wrist, Thank God

    You Can Now Put Windows 98 On Your Wrist, Thank God

    Smartwatches might, for the most part, be completely worthless, but that hasn’t stopped us from being inured with the concept. Like a character out of Fallout, some people just really want a computer on their wrist. It’s why they have shoved Windows 95 onto an Android Wear watch and MacOS 7.5.5 onto an Apple one.…