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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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Max’s hospital drama The Pitt is accused of being an ER ripoff.

And not even from the press! Besides Westworld and Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton created ER and his widow is now claiming that everyone involved in a potential reboot or sequel to the series instead boxed Crichton’s estate out and gathered to make The Pitt instead — including lead actor Noah Wyle.


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Paramount will NOT be sold to the Seagram gin heir.

Edgar Bronfman Jr. did have some of the credentials to run Paramount. That’s why the heir turned film producer, music mogul, and chairman of FuboTV plus a group of investors made a last minute bid. Now that he’s withdrawn Skydance and David Ellison, son of Oracle’s Larry Ellison, are all but assured to be the new owners of CBS, MTV, and crucially to me — Star Trek.


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My favorite tech skeptics may be back with a legal drama set in Silicon Valley.

Robert and Michelle King’s last two shows, Evil and The Good Fight were both pretty clearly skeptical of Big Tech by the end. Presumably this show will be slightly more grounded with fewer snipers and demons involved in the next big tech moment. And given how much the Kings have to say on how tech is transforming our culture, I can’t wait to see what they do focusing their sites on Apple and its ilk.


Arc is coming to Android... soon.

If you just got a Pixel 9 and you want to do more than potentially break the long held social contract we all shared around photos than soon you’ll be able to put the excellent Arc browser on it!

Now to patiently wait for extension support in the mobile version of Arc. I’ve been using it on my Mac and iPhone for months and cannot wait to put it on my Pixel and Boox Palma too.


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I hope the next CEO of Disney is just Bob Iger with a fun mustache.

Disney just created a committee to find Iger’s replacement as he’s repeatedly said he doesn’t plan to stay CEO long. But he also said that before his last replacement, Bob Chapek, was terminated and Iger returned. So maybe it will be someone new! Or maybe it will just be Bob with a mustache.


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The Pixel Watch 3’s pulse detection mode could be incredible.

But it could also lead to a lot more unnecessary calls to 911. We’ve got a lot more reporting to do to figure out just how game-changing this new feature for Google’s wearable is in its current iteration, but this could lead to an exciting and less scary future for people with sick relatives or folks who live alone.


Keke Palmer????

Keke Palmer just interrupted the event to hype an after-event event and her book. All I could think about was how the guy from “Hot Ones” said she’s the most charming person he ever interviewed on the show.


Brian Rakowski says RAM is the name of the game for the Pixel 9.

Yup, it’s 2024 and we’re talking about the importance of phone RAM. I’d roll my eyes that this is still a conversation, but after trying a lot of different Android E Ink tablets with different amounts of RAM, I can confirm — RAM is very important!


No compromise!

Both the XL and regular Pixel Pro will have the same features. Thank you for not gatekeeping cool features to big phones. Some of us have tiny hands and pockets.