Launch
In its ongoing mission to create the world’s most baffling subscription model, YouTube has just introduced Premium Lite—a new, “more affordable” way to watch most videos ad-free for the low, low price of $7.99 per month.
Satire
Samsung’s Galaxy S25 and its AI companion features deserve some poetic treatment. Here’s a sonnet capturing the spirit of the latest device.
Satire
If an iPad remains unchanged in form but receives a new chip, is it truly "new"?
Mobile World Congress
While most companies are content with a single press release at Mobile World Congress, Huawei decided that March 4, 2025, deserved not one, not two, but four celebratory announcements.
Funding
Ramp, the “leading financial operations platform” (as they humbly describe themselves), announced with great fanfare that their valuation has ballooned to $13 billion.
Mobile World Congress
Phone Calls are back at Mobile World Congress! First Orion reinvents a technology we've all been using for over a century.
Mobile World Congress
When one fold isn’t enough, and two folds feel passé—introducing the tri-foldable phone! The ultimate way to confuse your pockets, your hands, and your sense of what a smartphone should be.
AI
Deutsche Telekom & Perplexity just dropped the AI Phone—because regular smartphones weren’t AI enough.
AI
Lenovo’s new laptops fold, flip, soak up the sun, and probably do your taxes. We braved their 10,000-word press release so you don’t have to. Here’s what actually matters.
This Week in Snark
We say a glitchy goodbye to Skype, watch Sony desperately insist VR isn’t dead, marvel at Amazon’s bold attempt to make Alexa a paid privilege, chuckle as Brex discovers enterprise money is actually real, and witness Apple throw a casual half-trillion at AI just to stay relevant.
Satire
It is with a mix of nostalgia and profound indifference that we gather here today to mourn Skype's slow, painful, and utterly predictable demise.
VR
Starting in March, you can grab a PS VR2 for the low, low price of $399.99—which is still somehow more than a PlayStation 5 costs on sale.