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.
  • In 2017 The TV Is Just A Fancy Arse Computer Display

    In 2017 The TV Is Just A Fancy Arse Computer Display

    We’ve seen some incredible TVs at CES this year: Stunning screens that practically melt your eyeballs. But the real stars of the show haven’t been the displays. Instead, the TVs are remarkable for their designs. The coolest TVs of CES 2017 pulled all the guts of the TV out of the display hardware, and in…


  • This Refrigerator Has Windows Inside

    This Refrigerator Has Windows Inside

    Last year, Samsung embedded a giant tablet in the front of a fridge and called the fridge smart. People kind of bought it, and there was much hype. This year Samsung is hoping that some software updates to that fridge tech will set it apart. But it won’t. Instead, the Samsung smart fridge must suffer.…


  • Sony’s New OLED TV Is Both The Screen And The Speaker

    Sony’s New OLED TV Is Both The Screen And The Speaker

    True to rumours, Sony revealed a new OLED TV yesterday at CES. The display itself appears to be just as thin as LG’s new 2.5mm-thick OLED W7, but where the LG OLED puts the speakers in a giant soundbar you can position anywhere near the TV, the Sony set uses the display itself as the…