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.
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  • The Nerdiest Debate Ever May Finally Have A Winner

    Alex Cranz

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    If you aren’t a programmer, you’re probably not going to know this, but there’s a vicious rivalry lurking in the code of every app you use. If code isn’t written consistently — using either the tab or the space button to create indentations — the format can get all wonky, making it difficult for multiple…

  • Everything You Need To Know About AMD Ryzen

    Alex Cranz

    Sometimes it feels like computers have reached peak speed. Often times, when trolling YouTube or playing a quick round of Overwatch the limitations on performance seem tied to something else. Your internet is too slow, or you need a new graphics card. Computer processors have gotten faster – every year Intel unveils a microarchitecture with…

  • Everything You Need To Know About HDR

    Alex Cranz

    If you followed the news out of CES closely this year, you probably heard the word HDR tossed around a lot. In 2017 we’ll see TVs for under $700 with the feature, and fancy monitors for over $1300. But what does HDR even mean?

  • Intel’s New Kaby Lake Processors: What You Need To Know

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    Kaby Lake, Intel’s latest processor family, wasn’t supposed to exist. Earlier this year Intel announced the end of its well-known tick-tock release schedule, whereby it trots out a new processor every September. The tick is the shrinking and improvements of the current microarchitecture, while the tock is a whole new architecture. Instead last year’s “tock”,…