The Morning After: Microsoft pauses its creepy Recall AI feature

Microsoft has belatedly cottoned on to the whole “using AI to watch someone’s screen might be a bit creepy” thing. It has announced it will limit the launch of Recall, which was due to arrive alongside the first batch of Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs on June 18. Instead, it will limit previews to just members of its Insider program to better focus on their feedback. We all know what that means, right? It’s just going to fade into the ether until everyone forgets it ever happened. — Daniel Cooper The biggest stories you might have missed Tesla shareholders have approved Elon Musk’s ‘unfathomable’ pay package Overwatch 2 resurrects Pink Mercy cosmetic for a charity fundraiser WhatsApp rolls out enhanced video calling So long, Jabra earbuds, it’s not your fault How Messages via Satellite will work on iOS 18 and how much it will cost LinkedIn’s AI job coach can write your cover letters and edit your resumé Skate Story hands-on: Kick, push, shatter ​​You can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here! Samsung’s Galaxy Watch FE arrives on June 24 It’s a $200 cut-down version of the flagship. Samsung Samsung’s Galaxy FE lineup offers a lot of what’s available in its flagship products with a much lower price. The latest to join the gang is the Galaxy Watch FE, which gets much of the same health tech as the Galaxy Watch in a more modest package. The tradeoffs are sensible enough to make the price of $200 pretty darn compelling for some people. Continue Reading. Segway’s robot mower spared me from my least favorite chore The Navimow i105 means my lawn has never looked better. Photo by Daniel Cooper / Engadget Robomowers are expensive, require a lot of effort to install and aren’t exactly the set-and-forget dream you expect. Or at least, they used to be: Now, Segway’s Navimow i105 uses GPS instead of a fiddly ground wire, removing a lot of the hassle of installation. It’s not perfect by any means, but it’s an easy way to turn a patch of ground into a manicured lawn without much effort on your part. Continue Reading. This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-microsoft-pauses-its-creepy-recall-ai-feature-111539438.html?src=rss

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The Morning After: Microsoft pauses its creepy Recall AI feature

Microsoft has belatedly cottoned on to the whole “using AI to watch someone’s screen might be a bit creepy” thing. It has announced it will limit the launch of Recall, which was due to arrive alongside the first batch of Windows 11 Copilot+ PCs on June 18. Instead, it will limit previews to just members of its Insider program to better focus on their feedback. We all know what that means, right? It’s just going to fade into the ether until everyone forgets it ever happened.

— Daniel Cooper

The biggest stories you might have missed

Tesla shareholders have approved Elon Musk’s ‘unfathomable’ pay package

Overwatch 2 resurrects Pink Mercy cosmetic for a charity fundraiser

WhatsApp rolls out enhanced video calling

So long, Jabra earbuds, it’s not your fault

How Messages via Satellite will work on iOS 18 and how much it will cost

LinkedIn’s AI job coach can write your cover letters and edit your resumé

Skate Story hands-on: Kick, push, shatter

​​You can get these reports delivered daily direct to your inbox. Subscribe right here!

Samsung’s Galaxy Watch FE arrives on June 24

It’s a $200 cut-down version of the flagship.

Promotional image for the Galaxy Watch FE
Samsung

Samsung’s Galaxy FE lineup offers a lot of what’s available in its flagship products with a much lower price. The latest to join the gang is the Galaxy Watch FE, which gets much of the same health tech as the Galaxy Watch in a more modest package. The tradeoffs are sensible enough to make the price of $200 pretty darn compelling for some people.

Continue Reading.

Segway’s robot mower spared me from my least favorite chore

The Navimow i105 means my lawn has never looked better.

Image of Segway's Navimow i105 robo mower
Photo by Daniel Cooper / Engadget

Robomowers are expensive, require a lot of effort to install and aren’t exactly the set-and-forget dream you expect. Or at least, they used to be: Now, Segway’s Navimow i105 uses GPS instead of a fiddly ground wire, removing a lot of the hassle of installation. It’s not perfect by any means, but it’s an easy way to turn a patch of ground into a manicured lawn without much effort on your part.

Continue Reading.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-morning-after-microsoft-pauses-its-creepy-recall-ai-feature-111539438.html?src=rss

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