A couple of weeks ago, Microsoft held an event where it introduced Copilot+ PCs. They are set apart from the competition by the Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chipsets which sport a rather powerful NPU capable of delivering 40 TOPS (Trillion Operations Per Second). To demonstrate the NPU’s capabilities, the software giant also introduced Recall – an app that automatically takes snapshots and builds a timeline of your daily PC workflow. This timeline can then be searched for text that directly appears in snapshots, or perhaps more impressively, one can search using simple visual descriptions. Thanks to the NPU, all indexing and data processing can be done locally.
Recall quickly became the talk of the town for a variety of reasons. Some see it as a game changer, allowing people to go back to a previous activity with unparalleled ease. Others see it as a privacy risk. After all, Recall ends up creating a rather convenient database of your computer usage history and habits, supercharged with screenshots.
