Nvidia App reaches version 1.0 milestone and exits beta — GeForce Experience and Control Panel now deprecated

TheNvidia App has been in open betasince February 2024, but today marks the official 1.0 release of the full product. The Nvidia App has officially left beta status and represents a full replacement for both GeForce Experience and the Nvidia Control Panel. It’s alsomuchfaster to install than GFE, and it links to your browser for user login, perhaps saving an extra step and authentication.For the time being, GFE and the Nvidia Control Panel will continue to exist, but only in a legacy state....

July 15, 2025 · 1 min · 208 words · Sandra Henry

Nvidia confident that RTX 50 series power connectors unlikely to melt despite higher TDP

Nvidia says that its flagship RTX 5090 GPUs will not experience themelting 16-pin connectors that plagued RTX 4090graphics cards. Company representatives made this announcement during Nvidia RTX AI Day 2025 in South Korea, as reported byQuasar Zone(machine translated). Nvidia is confident that the changes it made to the connector design will avoid the issue, despite the RTX 5090 having a higher TDP of 575 watts (versus the 4090’s 450 watts)....

July 15, 2025 · 3 min · 438 words · Joseph Bradley

Nvidia introduces G-Assist plug-in builder, allowing its AI to integrate with LLMs and software

Nvidia is adding customizable plug-ins to Project G-Assist, enabling users to modify Nvidia’s AI to suit their needs. The trillion-dollar company has launched a newChatGPT-based G-Assist Plug-In Builderthat allows G-Assist to work with various LLMs and software. The plug-in builder is designed to expand G-Assist’s functionality by adding new commands and connecting external tools. “With the plug-in builder, users can generate properly formatted code with AI, then integrate the code into G-Assist — enabling quick, AI-assisted functionality that responds to text and voice commands....

July 15, 2025 · 2 min · 415 words · Jeremy Williams

Nvidia reportedly raises GPU prices by 10-15% as manufacturing costs surge — tariffs and TSMC price hikes filter down to retailers

A new report claims that Nvidia has recently raised the official prices of nearly all of its products to combat the impact of tariffs and surging manufacturing costs on its business, with gaming graphics cards receiving a 5 to 10% hike while AI GPUs see up to a 15% increase. As reported byDigitimes Taiwan(translated), Nvidia is facing “multiple crises,” including a $5.5 billion hit to its quarterly earnings over export restrictions on AI chips, including a ban on sales of its H20 chips to China....

July 15, 2025 · 3 min · 467 words · John Cobb

Nvidia's newest top-tier AI supercomputers deployed for the first time — Grace Blackwell Ultra Superchip systems deployed at CoreWeave

Dellon Thursday said that it had delivered industry’s first systems built on Nvidia’s GB300 NVL72 platform to CoreWeave, a leading AI cloud service provider (CSP). CoreWeave said that it had deployed the Blackwell Ultra-based cluster with its data center hosting provider Switch. Dell’s and CoreWeave’s initial rollout involves Dell Integrated Racks equipped with 72 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra GPUs, 36 Arm-based 72-core Grace CPUs, and 36 BlueField DPUs per rack. Each GB300 NVL72 rack delivers 1....

July 15, 2025 · 3 min · 525 words · Morgan Turner

Open AI plans to steal Google’s thunder by announcing an AI-powered search engine one day before Google I/O 2024 — report

According toReuters, OpenAI is planning a May 13 announcement about its AI-powered search engine that will take onGoogleSearch. Open AI’s statement is expected to occur one day before Google I/O 2024, when many anticipate that Google’s own Gemini AI model will take center stage. OpenAI took everyone by surprise by launching ChatGPT in November 2022. And sinceMicrosoftwas its financial backer, the company planned to announce ChatGPT’s integration with Bing to create Bing Chat on June 02, 2025....

July 15, 2025 · 3 min · 448 words · Jason Bell

Original Prusa XL Review: Huge Bed, Five Toolheads at Once

Tom’s Hardware Verdict Prusa’s XL is a pricey multi-material tool changer that keeps the emphasis on quality over speed. Multi-Material without waste Large size Direct drive Auto bed leveling PEI Steel flex plate All metal hotend Does not need to be online Expensive Bulky Why you’re able to trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test....

July 15, 2025 · 14 min · 2939 words · Jeremy Fowler

Passive M.2 SSD heatsink features a dual ultra-thin vapor chamber — Cooler Master Kaze cools double-sided M.2 drives

Cooler Masterlaunched a passive heatsink called Kaze for cooling M.2 2280 SSDs. It uses a dual vapor chamber design and a long heatsink array while maintaining a low profile. It provides cooling for double-sided M.2 SSDs. Cooler Masterpromises that its Kaze M.2 cooler provides an ultra-thin vapor chamber made in a way that maintains the low-profile design to complement the SSD and the area in which it is mounted. Further, the cooler is designed to accommodate double-sided M....

July 15, 2025 · 3 min · 467 words · Richard Orozco

Philips Evnia 27M2N8500 360 Hz QD-OLED review: Unmatched speed and response

Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you.Find out more about how we test. Grayscale, Gamma and Color The 27M2N8500 ships with a calibration data sheet that shows reasonable accuracy. It doesn’t need adjustment, but a few tweaks will improve the picture. Grayscale and Gamma Tracking Our grayscale and gamma tests use Calman calibration software fromPortrait Displays....

July 15, 2025 · 4 min · 764 words · Elizabeth Bentley

Qualcomm reportedly explores buying portions of Intel's PC client business

Qualcomm is allegedly exploring the possibility of taking over parts of Intel’s design business, particularly the PC client segment, to expand its product offerings, reportsReuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter. While no formal discussions have occurred, the report says that Intel is considering selling off business units due to financial challenges, including a decline in its PC division’s performance. Qualcomm has long eyed the PC business with its Snapdragon processors, but its attempts with always-connected PCs in 2017 – 2020 were unsuccessful....

July 15, 2025 · 3 min · 436 words · David Hoffman

Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Review: Plenty of memory

Tom’s Hardware Verdict So much power, and now with the RAM to back it up, but the $120 price tag makes this a considered purchase for all but the most die-hard fans. Compatible with all Raspberry Pi 5 add-ons You really need a project to maximize the RAM The price Why you can trust Tom’s HardwareOur expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and services so you can choose the best for you....

July 15, 2025 · 11 min · 2262 words · Matthew James

Raspberry Pi Pico powers $75 PicoCalc portable programming handheld

Building aRaspberry Piproject from scratch is always a satisfying experience and one of the best ways to scratch that itch is to invest in an all-in-one kit. Today we’ve got a really cool one to share with you from ClockworkPi known as thePicoCalc kit. It uses our favorite microcontroller, theRaspberry Pi Picoto drive a gorgeous calculator. This calculator offers much more than the ability to handle advanced mathematical calculations (but it does that really well)....

July 15, 2025 · 3 min · 529 words · Lauren Williams

Raspberry Pi powers creepy one-eyed, head-swiveling stuffed koala assistant with ChatGPT

TheRaspberry Picommunity never ceases to amaze us when it comes to creating custom AI assistants. We’ve seen amazingholographic companionsand even interactiverotary phones. However, this is the first one-eyed stuffedkoala bear assistantwe’ve seen, and we absolutely love it. This strange bear was created by a maker known as Spiritual_Aside_7859 on Reddit and is still technically a work in progress. However, there’s quite a bit going on, and we wanted to share the work completed so far....

July 15, 2025 · 2 min · 424 words · Christopher Hampton