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Baseus’ car charger with retractable USB-C cables is now available.

We called the Baseus PrimeTrip VR2 Max car charger the best charger at CES 2025, and now nearly five months after it was first announced it’s finally available with a small price bump to $49.99.

The charger connects to a vehicle’s auxiliary power outlet and provides up to a total of 240W of power (up to 105W to a single port) across two retractable USB-C cables, plus an additional USB-C and USB-A port.

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<em>The PrimeTrip VR2 includes a pair of 31-inch long USB-C charging cables that fully retract.</em>
<em>That charger includes a USB-C and USB-A port in its base, in addition to its two integrated cables.</em>
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The PrimeTrip VR2 includes a pair of 31-inch long USB-C charging cables that fully retract.
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Emma Roth
DeviantArt’s co-founder made a digital art display... and it’s $22,000.

Angelo Sotira’s display, called Layer, is designed to house a kind of “generative AI art,” which TechCrunch explains involves artists writing their “own software to create digital AI artworks that change over time.” The display comes with a dedicated GPU capable of rendering “infinite variations” of generative art in full resolution.

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Elizabeth Lopatto
Are we watching a public breakup?

Yesterday I wrote about Elon Musk’s fall from power. Today he is beefing with the president on X, instead of picking up his phone to make a call. Hm!

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Emma Roth
Apple Arcade is adding Kingdom Rush 5: Alliance TD.

The tower defense game is headed to Apple Arcade on July 3rd, along with the spinoff Angry Birds Bounce, which swaps the classic slingshot gameplay for arcade-style brick-breaking.

As previously announced, What the Car? for the Apple Vision Pro and Uno: Arcade Edition are available starting today.

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Listen to Nothing in July.

That’s when the company’s first over-ear headphones are launching, on July 1st at 1PM ET, the same time it plans to launch the flagship Phone 3.

Image: Nothing
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Andrew Liszewski
The Switch 2 is also more expensive to repair.

Nintendo Japan’s support site has shared how much it’s going to cost to fix the Switch 2 and, not surprisingly, repairs and replacement parts are more expensive. Replacing the Switch 2’s mainboard costs 27,500 yen (~$192) compared to 14,300 yen (~$100) for the original Switch.

Screen replacements are 15,400 yen (~$108) while a battery swap will set you back 9,900 yen (~$69). Nintendo is also charging a flat rate of 3,960 yen (~$28) for individual Joy-Con repairs.

A screenshot of how much it costs to repair the Switch 2 in Japan.
Nintendo Japan has revealed how much it costs to repair the Switch 2 there. (Translated by Google.)
Screenshot: Nintendo Japan
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Anthropic’s CEO wrote an op-ed against the proposed 10-year moratorium on AI regulation.

Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s co-founder and CEO, writes in The New York Times that though he understands the motivations behind the proposal, “a 10-year moratorium is far too blunt an instrument. A.I. is advancing too head-spinningly fast.”

He’s advocating for a federal transparency standard instead: “Without a clear plan for a federal response, a moratorium would give us the worst of both worlds — no ability for states to act, and no national policy as a backstop.”

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Andrew Liszewski
Joy-Con teardowns confirm the Switch 2 doesn’t have Hall effect or TMR joysticks.

As most Switch 2 owners eagerly dive into Mario Kart World, some are instead dissecting their consoles to reveal its secrets. Following the first teardown yesterday, someone on Reddit has disassembled the new Joy-Cons, as spotted by Nintendo Life.

Confirming what Nintendo of America’s Nate Bihldorff already said, the joysticks in the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons don’t appear to feature any magnets, which means they’re unfortunately not using drift-resistant Hall effect or TMR technology.

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Digimon returns with another story in October.

It’s been years since we saw an entry in Digimon’s Story series, and now it’s returning with Digimon Story Time Stranger on October 3rd, 2025. The game’s description says it tells an “epic story that unravels the mystery of the world’s collapse” as you carry out turn-based battles with a variety of Digimon collected throughout the game.

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