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Microsoft Recall Finally Rolls Out to Copilot+ PCs; New AI-Powered Productivity Tools Announced

Microsoft Recall Finally Rolls Out to Copilot+ PCs; New AI-Powered Productivity Tools Announced

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Microsoft unveiled three new artificial intelligence (AI) features for Copilot+ PCs on Friday. These new features are part of the company’s preview update for April 2025, with a plan to be rolled out to all users next month. Among them, the Redmond-based tech giant is finally rolling out Recall, an AI feature that takes periodic screenshots of the device to help users recall what they were doing during their last session. The company is also rolling out an improved version of Windows search and a new Click to Do feature. Microsoft Is Adding Three New AI Features to Copilot+ PCs In a Windows blog post, the tech giant announced the release of Recall, improved Windows search, and Click to Do to Copilot+ PCs. These features will be made available to all Copilot+ PCs branded computers, powered by Snapdragon, Intel, and AMD. To begin with, these features are being released as a part of the April 2025 Windows non-security preview update. The company plans to ship the features to consumers widely in May. Recall was first …

What Went Wrong This Year?

What Went Wrong This Year?

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In the fast-paced world of innovation, every breakthrough carries the risk of missteps, miscalculations, or under-delivering promises. The biggest tech story of 2024 — the CrowdStrike outage that affected businesses and consumers nationwide — was also one of the year’s most notable failures. But the CrowdStrike story is more than just a tale of failure — it’s also a testament to resilience and recovery. TechRepublic has compiled the most significant tech flops of the year, exploring how they were addressed — or left unresolved. SEE: These are the hottest cybersecurity news stories of 2024. CrowdStrike bug strands travelers amid mass blue screens of death On the morning of Friday, July 19, the CrowdStrike cloud security platform released a content configuration update for Windows. A bug in the Content Validator used in the update caused a cascade of errors that spread across CrowdStrike’s customers. That customer group included about 8.5 million Windows devices in businesses, airports, and emergency services departments. CrowdStrike fixed the problem on their end 78 minutes after the update. However, affected machines needed …

TechRepublic’s 10 Biggest AI Stories That Dominated the Year

TechRepublic’s 10 Biggest AI Stories That Dominated the Year

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Generative AI became ubiquitous in 2024, becoming a fixture in laptops, smartphones, and everyday tech. With the rise of multimodal models, generative AI broke new ground, processing text, video, images, and audio — and even delivering outputs seamlessly combining these formats. As 2024 approaches, TechRepublic revisits the biggest generative AI stories of the year. 1. NVIDIA AI architecture sold out NVIDIA was a clear winner in the AI space this year. Introduced in March, the Blackwell chip became the gold standard in GPU microarchitecture for processing large amounts of information. Blackwell enables AI training, research, and computing for Amazon Web Services, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and xAI, among others. As of October, Blackwell chips sold out through the following year, as these processors were popular purchases among companies. In March, sales of NVIDIA’s Hopper chips helped the company reach $2 trillion in market capitalization. NVIDIA became one of the three most valuable companies worldwide, alongside Microsoft and Apple. AMD and Intel also provide AI accelerator chips, although their businesses haven’t experienced the same explosive growth …

Microsoft’s Recall is an opt-in feature that you can remove | Technology News

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Microsoft’s AI-powered Recall feature, which takes screenshots of everything you do on your Windows machine and makes your actions searchable, has been scrutinised by security experts since its announcement earlier this year. However, in the last few months, Microsoft has been working on making Recall more secure and user friendly. In a blog post, the tech giant said that unlike the previous implementation, users will now have to manually opt-in to enable the feature, and that they will have to use Windows Hello authentication to confirm user presence. Earlier this month, some users said they could uninstall Recall, but in a statement, Microsoft had clarfied that it was just a bug and not a feature. However, the tech giant seems to have changed its mind. Recall is now more secure than it was a few months ago. (Image Source: Microsoft) Microsoft also said that in response to feedback from users and security experts, Recall now automatically filters sensitive content like passwords, credit card numbers, and allows users to choose apps they want to exclude. “If …