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Alex Cranz

Alex Cranz

Deputy Editor

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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There’s a wall mount for the Dyson Airwrap,

and having previously purchased one I can confirm that it isn’t half bad! Is the metal sort of cheap and the adhesive backing pitiful? Yes. But it also includes screws to mount it directly into the wall, and having all my Airwrap accessories on the wall makes me feel fancy. At $32.45, it’s 19 percent cheaper than when I bought it.


An image of a metal shelf holding all the various Airwrap accessories.
I bought it based on this poorly photoshopped image but can confirm the actual product looks like this and works just fine.
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Well, that’s one delicious use of a 3D printer.

The ability to 3D print using edible mediums like chocolate isn’t new, but consider this: a NES cartridge-shaped reverse s’more.


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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.