PowerA recently debuted its first Switch 2 gamepad, a wired one with Hall effect joysticks (no rumble, motion controls, or Amiibo support, though) that costs $39.99. It’s available to preorder at Best Buy, launching June 9th. PowerA’s model seems like a better value than Hori’s, which will cost $10 more.

For those who’ve been toying with the idea of subscribing to The Verge, it’s a great time to join. For developer conference season, we’re discounting the cost of monthly subscriptions from $7 per month to just $4 for new subscribers.

Pokémon TCG Pocket’s Alolan era is set to continue with Extradimensional Crisis, a new expansion featuring the (technically not legendary) pokémon known as Ultra Beasts. Following the set’s launch on May 29th, there will also be new Drop, Wonder Pick, and Mass Outbreak events running throughout June to help add even more beasties to your collection.

Do you mourn the old world dying? Will you celebrate the new world’s struggle to be born? Write (or, in a few months, read) about it.

Following the addition of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe scenes (what Nintendo calls its alarm clock’s wake up experiences) last December, Alarmo is getting another free update with a collection of seven new Animal Crossing: New Horizons scenes. Samples of the new alarm sounds are available on Nintendo’s Japanese site and include Isabelle doing morning exercises and K.K. Slider singing the game’s theme song.

After outdoing Tesla’s global revenue last year, Chinese auto manufacturer BYD just outsold it in Europe for the first time too.

Universal is opening its latest theme park expansion in Orlando today, which includes the third iteration of Super Nintendo Land, following locations in Osaka and Los Angeles. The park comes at a busy time for Nintendo, which is just about to launch the Switch 2 — but it’s also part of a larger plan to turn it into more than a games company.

So says Lenovo CEO Yang Yuanqing in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, arguing the company can “adjust quickly” to tariff changes, but only if it knows “what the end game is.”

After last month’s acquisition of Runna, mostly to get at its running plans, Strava is repeating the trick in cycling. It just acquired The Breakaway, an iOS biking app with a focus on... AI training plans.

The Find My Device rebrand announced during last week’s I/O Android Show has rolled out to the Play Store, and with it Google has taken the “beta” tag off the people-tracking half of the app.

DJI said it wouldn’t, but it weirdly did anyhow. Now, the company won’t answer our questions about the launch at all. How did Adorama obtain a shipment of drones? Will DJI honor the preorders at B&H? Does any other retailer have a shipment? Will DJI honor its warranty on those sales?

Fry’s is gone, CompUSA is gone, Radio Shack is a zombie, but Micro Center is finally coming back. On May 30th, the store will host its grand opening at 5201 Stevens Creek Blvd in Santa Clara — and it tells me it’s bringing 4,000 GPUs to mark the occasion! (It might not put them all on sale right away.)

Researchers at Johns Hopkins claim to have developed a solid-state refrigeration tech that could increase efficiency by 70 percent compared to traditional thermoelectric materials.

The excellent Data & Society pulled together a report on the impact of generative AI on scamming. (No surprise: not good.) Its conclusion makes an interesting comparison to the once-pressing scourge of spam:

AT&T says its acquisition of Lumen, previously known as CenturyLink, will allow it to “significantly expand” its fiber internet service across major cities, like Denver, Las Vegas, Orlando, and others. The deal is expected to close in the first half of 2026 and includes “substantially all” of Lumen’s fiber-to-home business.

Apparently we’ve got some prospective cast members for a new Street Fighter movie, so it’s time to revisit Polygon’s classic Chris Plante feature about the 1994 film’s production trainwreck. RIP Raul Julia.

In addition to two new entry level models that use traditional carbon filters, Dyson is launching three upgraded air purifiers in the US on June 3rd featuring its “K-Carbon filter technology.”

After about four days of witness testimony in its case-in-chief, and on the sixth week of trial, Meta concludes its defense. The FTC plans to put on its rebuttal case on Tuesday, where it plans to call back its economic expert Scott Hemphill to respond to Meta’s experts.

Spotify now lets iOS users pay how they want following the big ruling in Epic Games v. Apple, and per an amicus brief: