Nvidia’s new G-Assist AI assistant is now available on the Nvidia app, ready for GeForce RTX desktop users to try out. The concept first appeared in 2017 as an April Fool’s joke before becoming a real tech demo last year, and now, a real-life product.
The assistant is designed to take care of the ever-growing selection of settings PC users need to deal with, including system settings, game settings, and charting performance statistics.
The idea is to help you optimize your PC settings so you can make the most of your Nvidia GPU and the games you play with it. Rather than finding a perfect all-round configuration, the assistant is perfect for switching between different settings depending on what you’re doing.
Say, for instance, the optimal settings for Cyberpunk 2077 are different from the optimal settings for Assassin’s Creed Shadows — with G-Assist, you can switch between the two more easily. Instead of remembering everything you need to configure and doing it manually, you can simply send a prompt to G-Assist through text or a voice command.
The tech works right on your PC, without even connecting to the internet, and there are plugins that will let you access peripheral apps and control them through G-Assist. Nvidia has some official plugins through partnerships with brands like Corsair and Logitech, but it has also published a GitHub repository to help people create their own community plugins for different products.
You can download G-Assist by heading to the Discovery section of the Nvidia app and learn more about how to use it on Nvidia’s website.
The absolutely absurd idea of putting a touchscreen display on a mouse isn't exactly new. Turtle Beach already did it with its Command Series MC7, which features a 2.25-inch control screen. But apparently, even that wasn't ridiculous enough for Arctic Fox Technologies. Its new Super Mouse looks like someone took the chunky old Atari ST mouse, slapped a touchscreen and scroll wheel on it, and called it an upgrade.
The result is a rather unusual-looking mouse that is now on Kickstarter, starting at $199. And as ridiculous as it looks, some of its features are genuinely intriguing.
Apple is less than a day away from launching its highly anticipated OLED MacBook Pro with a touch-sensitive screen. But it appears that the upgrade is going to cost a pretty penny. According to a report by Bloomberg, Apple is reportedly eyeing a starting price of $2,899 for the 14-inch MacBook Pro, while the 16-inch version could start at $3,399 in the US.
"At $2,899, the 14-inch model would mark the highest starting price for a new MacBook Pro model, surpassing the $2,799 Apple charged for a 17-inch version introduced in 2006," says the report. The report claims that Apple is targeting a minimum price hike of $400 for its upcoming redesigned 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro models.
I've spent a good amount of time digging into the spec sheet of the new M6 MacBook Pro (14-inch), and for all intents and purposes, this is a classic Apple "chip and connectivity" refresh. It's not a full redesign. The chassis, Liquid Retina XDR panel, speakers, ports, and battery, all of them carry over unchanged.
However, the M6 brings more cores, stronger on-device AI, higher memory bandwidth on the larger configs, and modern wireless. Here’s the practical rundown of what actually improved, and whether those gains are worth your money.