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Alex Cranz

Alex Cranz

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Alex Cranz is the Deputy Editor at The Verge. Before that she spent five years overseeing the consumer tech coverage at Gizmodo and whacking gadgets with a machete. Her work has also appeared in Wall Street Journal, Wired, and Laptop Mag and she has trained at least two dogs to do fist bumps.

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It looks like iPadOS 18 has a drive formatting tool.

Given how badly Apple would like people to edit video on iPads it makes sense. This year Final Cut Pro for iPad introduced support for external drives too.

It all sort of feels like iPadOS is becoming a proper computer OS—but as with FCP there are caveats. There’s only three drive formats to choose from and other tools, like First Aid, are still missing.


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Just how complicit is Mark Zuckerberg?

Because we often wonder how much a CEO actually knows about the goings on of their company—particularly when a large company like Meta has is being sued by dozens of Attorneys General over its policies around underage users.

It turns out Zuckerberg may have had a very direct hand in crafting policies that targeted children and exacerbated issues with body image on Meta’s platforms, at least according to a new report from the New York Times


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8K on the PlayStation 5 is no more.

If you want to be technical about it, 8K was never especially viable on the PS5 to begin with, but when the system launched in 2020 TV makers were heavily pushing 8K as the next big thing and Sony wanted to futureproof its pricey platform.

With a PS5 Pro coming soon, and likely supporting more robust 8K, removing 8K claims off the PS5 box isn’t a surprise.


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Even iPhone thieves and scammers can have a tough day at work.

Journalist Veronica de Souza had her phone stolen and immediately replaced it, but the thieves very much wanted her to unlock her old iPhone as it was effectively useless without her password.

So they asked her to unlock. Repeatedly.


Microsoft isn’t gatekeeping real time translation on Windows.

Instead of being stuck in Teams or another Microsoft app the new translation feature will be “available across any video calling app, any entertainment app, translated locally across the NPU.”

That’s great because in the one demo we’ve seen so far it seemed to do a very impressive job of translating everything said in real time, no human translator required.


We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem

AI might be cool, but it’s also a big fat liar, and we should probably be talking about that more.

Streaming is cable now

Seventeen years after Netflix and Hulu kicked off a streaming revolution, it’s looking more like cable than ever.