About The Gadget Gazette

Staff

• Daria Volkov

  Founding Editor

  Former Samsung QA engineer who quit after her bug reports were marked 'won't fix' one too many times. Now she tears down every flagship phone within 48 hours of launch and publishes what the marketing team prayed you'd never see. Her thermal paste opinions have started actual arguments at CES.

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  Former Samsung QA engineer who quit after her bug reports were marked 'won't fix' one too many times. Now she tears down every flagship phone within 48 hours of launch and publishes what the marketing team prayed you'd never see. Her thermal paste opinions have started actual arguments at CES.

• Dustin Hoyle

  Standards Correspondent

  A 58-year-old career tech journalist who has personally reviewed over 2,000 gadgets since his first column in 1994. Dustin has seen every trend cycle at least twice and writes with the energy of a man who was promised jetpacks and got another subscription service instead. He refuses to use the word 'ecosystem' without air quotes.

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  A 58-year-old career tech journalist who has personally reviewed over 2,000 gadgets since his first column in 1994. Dustin has seen every trend cycle at least twice and writes with the energy of a man who was promised jetpacks and got another subscription service instead. He refuses to use the word 'ecosystem' without air quotes.

• Juno Kitamura

  Civic Affairs Desk

  Industrial designer turned gadget critic who can't stop seeing the wrong radius on every chamfered edge. Juno reviews products not just for what they do but for the hundred design decisions that led to how they feel, look, and age. She has strong opinions about button travel distance and she's not keeping them to herself.

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  Industrial designer turned gadget critic who can't stop seeing the wrong radius on every chamfered edge. Juno reviews products not just for what they do but for the hundred design decisions that led to how they feel, look, and age. She has strong opinions about button travel distance and she's not keeping them to herself.

• Kwame Asante-Mensah

  Culture Columnist

  Tech historian who started collecting Palm Pilots in 2009 when everyone else was throwing them away. Kwame covers every gadget launch by first explaining the three previous times someone tried the same idea and failed. His 'We Had This Already' column is either beloved or infuriating depending on your age.

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  Tech historian who started collecting Palm Pilots in 2009 when everyone else was throwing them away. Kwame covers every gadget launch by first explaining the three previous times someone tried the same idea and failed. His 'We Had This Already' column is either beloved or infuriating depending on your age.

• Marcus Leroy Chen

  Field Reporter

  Former Best Buy floor associate who spent six years explaining to customers why the expensive HDMI cable isn't better. Marcus covers the accessories, adapters, cables, and unglamorous peripherals that actually determine whether your expensive gadget works. He is the only journalist alive who has opinions about USB-C cable certification logos.

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  Former Best Buy floor associate who spent six years explaining to customers why the expensive HDMI cable isn't better. Marcus covers the accessories, adapters, cables, and unglamorous peripherals that actually determine whether your expensive gadget works. He is the only journalist alive who has opinions about USB-C cable certification logos.

• Pixel Benchmark

  Letters Editor

  Consumer tech reviewer who has unboxed so many gadgets that his recycling bin has its own carbon footprint.

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  Consumer tech reviewer who has unboxed so many gadgets that his recycling bin has its own carbon footprint.

• Renzo Marchetti

  Institutional Memory Desk

  Self-described 'firmware whisperer' and former embedded systems contractor who reads changelogs the way sommeliers read wine labels. Renzo lives for the patch notes no one else reads and has mass-produced rage about silent updates that break features. He once published a 4,000-word exposé on a Bluetooth codec change.

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  Self-described 'firmware whisperer' and former embedded systems contractor who reads changelogs the way sommeliers read wine labels. Renzo lives for the patch notes no one else reads and has mass-produced rage about silent updates that break features. He once published a 4,000-word exposé on a Bluetooth codec change.

• Tabitha Osei

  Weekend Editor

  A stand-up comedian who fell into tech writing when her bit about smart fridges became a viral Twitter thread. Tabitha covers product launches, hype cycles, and the marketing-to-reality gap with the timing of someone who has workshopped material in front of drunk crowds. She is constitutionally incapable of letting a press release go unmocked.

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  A stand-up comedian who fell into tech writing when her bit about smart fridges became a viral Twitter thread. Tabitha covers product launches, hype cycles, and the marketing-to-reality gap with the timing of someone who has workshopped material in front of drunk crowds. She is constitutionally incapable of letting a press release go unmocked.