WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.120 How would you feel about a PC that can remember 00:00:03.120 --> 00:00:06.800 everything you do? And I'm not just talking about browser history 00:00:06.800 --> 00:00:10.400 or old messages. I mean a PC that keeps an eye on everything 00:00:10.400 --> 00:00:14.840 displayed on your screen, every app you have open, how long you spent looking at a picture, 00:00:14.840 --> 00:00:17.920 all of your credit card transactions, everything. 00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:21.000 Microsoft is hoping this will make you feel empowered 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:24.320 and not spied upon once the newest Windows 11 update 00:00:24.320 --> 00:00:29.920 called 24H2 drops with the feature we just talked about, dubbed Recall. 00:00:29.920 --> 00:00:33.560 The idea is relatively simple. Windows 11 will take snapshots of your screen 00:00:33.560 --> 00:00:38.400 every few seconds and save them to disk. Using AI, these snapshots will become 00:00:38.400 --> 00:00:42.840 easily searchable using natural language. So if you need to ask it a question like, 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:48.080 show me every message where I discussed Canadian maple syrup futures, Recall can locate those for you 00:00:48.080 --> 00:00:52.400 even if you completely forgot when the message was sent or even what program you were using. 00:00:52.400 --> 00:00:56.940 Happens to me all the time. It's pretty easy to see how this would be extremely useful 00:00:56.940 --> 00:01:02.960 for quickly finding an important piece of information but it's also obvious that Windows has to collect 00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:06.200 lots of information for the feature to work properly. 00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:10.080 Recall uses a minimum of 25 gigabytes of space 00:01:10.080 --> 00:01:13.280 if you have a rather small 256 gigs SSD 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:16.640 and the default amount that's allocated increases 00:01:16.640 --> 00:01:20.160 with larger disk sizes. And of course, Microsoft is aware 00:01:20.160 --> 00:01:25.120 that this sounds like a privacy nightmare. According to them, all of the data used by Recall 00:01:25.120 --> 00:01:31.520 never leaves your device and is processed by the neural processing unit or NPU in your PC. 00:01:31.520 --> 00:01:36.340 So the data doesn't need to be sent to the cloud. Of course, this still reinforces the importance 00:01:36.340 --> 00:01:41.880 of making sure your machine is secure as Recall won't do things like hide account numbers 00:01:41.880 --> 00:01:45.780 or passwords. Microsoft says that Recall data is gonna be secured 00:01:45.780 --> 00:01:50.720 the same way as other data on your PC. But seeing as you're probably not used to thinking 00:01:50.720 --> 00:01:54.000 of any random ephemeral thing that just happens 00:01:54.000 --> 00:01:57.320 to be on your screen is becoming part of a semi-permanent record. 00:01:57.320 --> 00:02:01.640 We're interested to see if Microsoft will beef up security around Recall as time goes on. 00:02:01.640 --> 00:02:05.460 In the meantime, it is possible to exclude certain programs 00:02:05.460 --> 00:02:08.680 and web browsers from Recall if you'd like. 00:02:08.680 --> 00:02:12.080 Thank goodness for that. But here's the thing, there's a very good chance 00:02:12.080 --> 00:02:15.640 you won't be able to even get Recall on your home PC anyway. 00:02:15.640 --> 00:02:22.000 Recall is intended to be a feature on PCs that Microsoft is labeling with co-pilot plus. 00:02:22.000 --> 00:02:26.980 Branding not to be confused with just co-pilot, the Windows AI assistant that has already been out 00:02:26.980 --> 00:02:31.500 for a while, co-pilot plus PCs must have 16 gigs of RAM 00:02:31.500 --> 00:02:35.900 and 256 gigs of storage, but also importantly, 00:02:35.900 --> 00:02:39.220 have to have an NPU rated for at least 40 trillion 00:02:39.220 --> 00:02:43.980 operations per second. Right now, there aren't any current consumer grade 00:02:43.980 --> 00:02:48.060 x86 CPUs out there that include an NPU this powerful. 00:02:48.060 --> 00:02:54.340 By comparison, current Intel and AMD products are capable of less than half of the number of operations. 00:02:54.340 --> 00:02:58.500 This means the first product certified for co-pilot plus will instead be laptops 00:02:58.500 --> 00:03:02.860 that contain Qualcomm Snapdragon X elite and X plus chips, 00:03:02.860 --> 00:03:08.480 which are ARM based and will serve as something of a competitor to the M series chips found in Apple devices. 00:03:08.480 --> 00:03:13.700 Although there has already been one Tinkerer who has gotten at Recall working on lower spec systems 00:03:13.700 --> 00:03:18.500 that don't have an NPU, most folks will either need to buy one of these new laptops, 00:03:18.500 --> 00:03:24.220 which will be out later this month, or wait until late 2024 when the 24H2 update drops 00:03:24.260 --> 00:03:28.300 for x86 PCs and when we're expecting to see CPUs 00:03:28.300 --> 00:03:31.760 from Intel and AMD that feature compatible NPUs. 00:03:31.760 --> 00:03:36.740 Are you looking forward to having a search feature this powerful or does it seem too creepy for you 00:03:36.740 --> 00:03:39.860 to be interested? Let us know down in the comments and thanks for watching. 00:03:39.860 --> 00:03:44.900 Be sure to check out our other video on NPUs. If you wanna find out more about how they work.