Smart home market growing
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Light bulbs getting more intelligent

Figures from Grand View Research show that the global smart home market size is expected to reach USD 537.01 billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of 27.07 per cent in seven years.

Apple AR/VR headset will have an external battery
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Streamlined, they have heard of it

In a move which will surprise many who are impressed by Apple's design chops, news has emerged that its coming VR headset will need an external battery pack which is the size of an iPhone. If you want to use it for longer than two hours you will have to plug it in -- defeating the product's portable purpose. 

Breached VPS’s are giving DDoS attacks teeth
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Botnets less interested in IoT

Hyper-volumetric distributed denial of service attacks in the first quarter of 2023 shifted from compromised IoT devices to using breached Virtual Private Servers.

US teens don’t see the point of Virtual Reality
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Better things to do

A new survey from Piper Sandler shows that US teens find Virtual Reality silly.

Apple staff fear that new headset will be expensive flop
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VR headset depends too much on non-existant hype

Apple employees are apparently warning their managers that the company's inbound VR headset, is going to be an overpriced flop.