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Cristina Alexander

Cristina Alexander

Gaming/Mobile Writer

Cristina Alexander is a gaming and mobile writer at Digital Trends. She blends fair coverage of games industry topics that matter the most to her with heart and sharp wit.

Cristina's favorite video game series is Sonic the Hedgehog. She was first introduced to the franchise when she played Sonic Adventure 2: Battle on the Nintendo GameCube as a demo in Circuit City at the age of 8. Her cousin reintroduced her to the game a year later, and she's played almost every Sonic game ever since. Before she fell head over heels for the blue hedgehog over 20 years ago, she loved playing other games on PlayStation and Nintendo, including Yoshi's Island, Mario Kart 64, Super Mario 64, 007 GoldenEye, Spyro the Dragon, Sly Cooper, and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater.

While attending Florida Atlantic University, Cristina contributed Sonic stories to Mega Visions Magazine, covering everything from gaming news to merchandise related to the. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in Multimedia Studies in 2018, she used this degree to work as a digital journalist at a local news station in Miami, writing local news stories and cutting videos on behalf of field journalists through the COVID-19 pandemic. From there, she freelanced for various gaming and tech sites, including TheGamer, SlashGear, Gamepur, IGN, and Digital Trends — the last of which she also writes mobile articles.

Cristina lives in South Florida. In her spare time, she loves to shop at Hot Topic, work out at the gym, travel to Disney World and other places with her partner, attend anime conventions in cosplay, play on her PS5, and create videos on TikTok.

OnePlus 13T

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Ray-Ban Meta Glasses’ live translation feature is like a personal Babel Fish

Meta is rolling out live translation to every Ray-Ban Meta Glasses owner around the world.
Leaked render of Google Pixel 10 angled view from front and back.

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Pinterest logo appears on phone screen.

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The Foto and Instagram app on an Android phone.

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Instagram is using AI-powered age detection technology to enroll young users lying about their age into Teen Accounts.
Instagram on the Samsung Galaxy A54.

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Instagram launched a new feature for users to create custom Reels feeds for their friends.
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A white X on a black background, which could be Twitter's new logo.

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The Google Pixel 9a on a table showing the screen.

Android phones get new security feature that iPhone owners already have

Google is adopting an iOS security feature that makes Android phones restart after three days of inactivity.
Activity Rings on the Apple Watch Series 10.

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The Nintendo Switch 2 is being held in a pair of hands.

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WhatsApp app icon appearing on a phone.

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WhatsApp is testing advanced chat privacy to prevent people from exporting chats that include sensitive information.
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Text box in Google Docs on a laptop.

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Video playing on Substack.

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The Instagram mobile app.

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Take Maps offline

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Interests AI on Amazon app.

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Demonstration of Parental Insights on Character.AI.

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Napster logo

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Pixel 9a display

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Concerts Near You playlist on Spotify.

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A person holding a smartphone with the Discord app displayed.

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The Apple iPhone 16 Pro Max's charging port.

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The European Union confirmed that Apple can make portless iPhones without USB-C.
AI-powered robot arm pouring a cup of coffee.

University students create AI-powered coffee-brewing robot arm

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Person holding a phone with Google Wallet opened showing the new Everything Else feature.

Google Wallet is now kid-friendly with latest update

Google has updated Google Wallet to allow kids to use Tap to Pay with parental consent.
WhatsApp logo on a phone held in hand.

WhatsApp makes move to cut the number of spam messages you get

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