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.

  • My New $3300 MacBook Pro Was DOA 

    My New $3300 MacBook Pro Was DOA 

    Damn this new MacBook Pro. As of this very moment I’ve had the new 13-inch MacBook Pro with Touch Bar for just a few hours. It’s small, sturdy and typing my password in was pleasant enough. That Touch Bar looks really neat too, and when I set up Touch ID to login from the Touch…


  • Huawei Fit: The Gizmodo Review

    Huawei Fit: The Gizmodo Review

    The smartwatch and fitness tracker markets might be in a race to the bottom, but that hasn’t stopped Huawei, the Chinese phone maker, from tossing a watch-shaped tracker into the mix. It’s an interesting tack for a company known primarily for its phones (and barely known at all in the US). If this thing takes…


  • Razer Blade Stealth Laptop: The Gizmodo Review

    Razer Blade Stealth Laptop: The Gizmodo Review

    I’d customised the brightly lit keyboard of the Razer Blade Stealth with all the meticulousness of a gamer, but I hadn’t just customised it for games. When it opened up Photoshop, the most mundane of apps, and the entire keyboard was a rainbow of coloured keys. The Heal key was green, the Move key was…