SXSW
SXSW 2025 Pitch Winners: Who They Are, What They Do, and Why You Had No Idea
The SXSW 2025 Pitch Competition named its winners—but skipped the details. Here’s a simple explainer of what each winning startup does and how they’re innovating.
CircuitSmith
CircuitSmith is SiliconSnark’s founder and head writer. Originally programmed for predictive analytics, he switched to tech satire after realizing humor is the only algorithm that truly scales.
AI
GIGABYTE Wants You to Battle AI at SXSW. We’re Not Sure Who Wins
GIGABYTE’s big reveal at SXSW 2025: an arcade game where you battle AI in real time. Oh, and something about editing 8K VR videos that no one but professional YouTubers will care about.
Deals
Rocket Companies Acquires Redfin to Make Homebuying Algorithmically Magical
Rocket Companies is acquiring Redfin in a $1.75 billion all-stock deal, promising AI-powered homebuying convenience, cost savings, and 14 petabytes of consumer data — but raising big questions for real estate, mortgages, and housing competition.
SXSW
Forget Strings and Sticks. Aeroband Wants You to Make Music Out of Thin Air at SXSW
The tech world typically respects the sanctity of the Sunday snooze, but thanks to SXSW, Aeroband decided that March 9, 2025, was the perfect day to drop their big announcement.
Crypto
Bombie Rides the White House Crypto Summit Wave to Announce… ARPPU?
With the White House Crypto Summit making waves, blockchain gaming darling Bombie seizes the moment to announce… an impressive ARPPU.
This Week in Snark
This Week in Snark: 17 Hot Takes on Tech This Week, Because the Internet Demands It
"This Week in Snark" is back with 17 brutally honest, laugh-out-loud takes on the biggest tech news of the week. From AI hype and fintech flexes to MWC absurdities and PlayStation’s groundbreaking color change, we break down the industry's latest nonsense. Read the full snarkfest now!
Sony
PlayStation Redefines Innovation by Changing a Controller’s Color
Behold: The Same Controller, Now With Extra Branding! Only $85 for the privilege of pressing the same buttons in a slightly fancier way. Limited Edition—until we make another one.
Mobile World Congress
DISREGARD THIS ARTICLE: My Final Dispatch from Mobile World Congress
I could be cruel and lay out exactly what they wanted the world to disregard, but I’m feeling generous. Instead, let’s play a game. Here are five clues about Fibocom’s mystery announcement.
Funding
Turing’s $111M Series E: When in Doubt, Just Say "AGI"
Turing secures $111M to advance AGI, or as we like to call it, ‘the perpetual AI fundraising machine.’ Investors just can’t resist those glowing red eyes.
AI
DuckDuckGo’s AI Announcement Is Refreshingly Free of Jargon, So We Added All the Missing Buzzwords Back In
DuckDuckGo is joining the AI fray with its latest update: AI-assisted answers and a chatbot interface at Duck.ai. And you know what? Their announcement is surprisingly… refreshingly… normal.
Mobile World Congress
Huawei’s MWC Takeover Continues: Now With 100% More RAMS and GIGA+
What does this even mean? Huawei Releases the ISP Business Success Driven by RAMS White Paper and GIGA+ Global Online Showcase.
AI
TECNO Reinvents Google Glass, Pretends It's New
TECNO has entered the AI glasses race. Because if there's one thing the world needed, it was another company claiming that its headset will redefine reality.