By Siôn Geschwindt BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, has launched its first Bitcoin product in Europe, a move that industry experts say will help legitimise cryptocurrencies in mainstream finance.  “This is a landmark development for crypto, displaying confidence in Bitcoin for mainstream investments,” Meryem Habibi, chief revenue officer at London-based cryptocurrency trading platform Bitpace, told TNW.  “Through this first in Europe, BlackRock is not only legitimising the asset class but also paving the way for increased institutional and retail participation,” she said. BlackRock’s product is called an “iShares Bitcoin ETP” (exchange-traded products). ETPs let investors buy and sell Bitcoin without directly owning…This story continues at The Next WebOr just read more coverage about: Bitcoin

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By Siôn Geschwindt San Francisco-based 23andMe, which sells at-home DNA testing kits, has filed for bankruptcy in the US and is looking for a new buyer — heightening concerns about the personal data of millions of people.     23andMe experienced a major data breach in 2023, which exposed personal information like family trees, birth years, and geographic locations of approximately half of the company’s 15 million users.    Now, with the company sinking, 23andMe customers are considering deleting their accounts amid fears of another hack or changes to the company’s privacy controls under a new owner.  In the EU and the UK, 23andMe users are…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Siôn Geschwindt The Netherlands has ranked 10th in a global index of tech competitiveness, ahead of the entire G7 group of the world’s largest so-called “advanced” economies. The country was praised for its thriving digital economy, mature biotech and semiconductor industries, and strong digital skills underpinned by “engineering excellence.” London-based Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) and consultancy SThree produced the index, which ranks 35 countries based on economic indicators such as level of high-tech exports, number of software developers, and patent filings related to AI.  Several European countries joined the Netherlands near the top of the rankings. Ireland placed second…This story continues at The Next Web

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Beneath the hyperbole around Apple Intelligence and intensifying regulation, you might have missed that Apple recently introduced a new MacBook Air equipped with an M4 chip. It’s a compelling upgrade to the world’s best-selling laptop, and I’ve had time to put it through its paces.

It’s an important Mac, given that the Air is probably Apple’s biggest-selling computer. Its journey began back when Apple’s then-CEO,Steve Jobs drew the first ever model out of a brown paper envelope, stressing the power and portability of the system. “We think that this is the future of notebooks…. All notebooks will be like this someday,” he said at that time. 

He was right, and also wrong, because I don’t think there’s anything else quite like the MacBook Air at this price.

You see, these (from) $999 computers deliver almost equal computational performance when measured in Geekbench 6 to the M1 Max Mac Studio Apple introduced three years ago.  

I don’t know how you see that, but to me, given the extent to which everyone was blown away by just how powerful those Studio Macs were, the fact that you can now put near-equivalent performance under your arm for less than $1,000 should make the M4 MacBook Air popular with consumers and business users alike. 

Ready for an upgrade?

That’s something that matters as Microsoft ends support for Windows 10 later this year, giving lots of PC users a really good opportunity to upgrade to the Mac. Many already are Canalys recently reported that US Mac shipments in Q4 2024 increased 25.9%, year-on-year, even as the PC industry as a whole grew just 5.7%.

“The Windows refresh cycle provides fertile ground for Apple to target both consumers and businesses that may be open to switching operating systems,” Canalys said.

The fertility of that ground cannot have been far from Apple’s mind when it decided to add a 10-core M4 chip to the MacBook Air — especially given the speed and energy efficiency that defines the range of every single M-series Mac released. That it managed to reduce the entry-level price by $100 just adds to the appeal.

Performance comes at lower cost

Let’s roll out the Geekbench 6 benchmarks. They show that, iteration by iteration, Apple is delivering compelling performance improvements that cement its reputation as the leading PC maker.

M1 MacBook Air: 2,346 single-core; 8,356 multi-core.

M2 MacBook Air: 2,588 single-core; 9,691, multi-core. 

M3 MacBook Air: 3,065 single-core; 11,959 multi-core.

M4 MacBook Air: 3,833 single-core; 14,871 multi-core. 

Look at that data. 

Not only does it illustrate the extent to which Apple Silicon has transformed the Mac, it also shows us just how solid the company’s processor development road map has turned out to be. Seeing is believing, and since the first M1 machines appeared, Apple has managed to deliver compelling upgrades on a near-annual basis. It will continue to do so, even as competitors flail in their attempts to catch up on machines that can match Apple on performance, price, and energy consumption.

Thanks for the memory

One big upgrade in this iteration is that Apple doubled the memory inside these systems. Ostensibly to run artificial intelligence in the form of Apple Intelligence, the inclusion of 16GB as the base memory makes for improved performance in everything else you do on your Mac. Don’t underestimate the grunt here — not only can it handle existing Apple Intelligence operations, but it is plain that once Apple does deliver contextual smarts in Siri, the new Air will be able to handle it, in part thanks to that memory. 

I also think the combination of a better processor with more built-in memory makes this model a compelling upgrade proposition, even if you are running an M2 MacBook Air, and certainly for M1 users. Of course, if you are using an Intel-based Mac of any kind, then any M-series Mac is a significant upgrade. (You also get a 12-megapixel Center Stage camera for those inevitable video meetings that punctuate most days.)

What’s like blue, but not as heavy?

Light blue is the new color to show off. It’s quite a subtle blue — nothing like a sky blue — but pleasing all the same. To my mind, it’s more a blue-tinged silver. But the votes in my house are broadly positive for the new shade, which will no doubt appear in student halls, coffee shops, meeting rooms, and offices near you in the coming months.

However, every silver lining comes wrapped up in its very own cloud, and the M4 MacBook Air is no different. The design hasn’t shifted one iota — it’s still aluminum, still beautiful, and now features more than 55% recycled content, including a 100% recycled aluminum enclosure. It also means a 13.6-in. display in my test unit, a 2,560×1,664-pixel resolution, two Thunderbolt 4, headphone, and one MagSafe 3 port.  If you want more display space, you’ve got it: the M4 Air will run up to two external displays in addition to the built-in Mac display.

Once again, this means it can be the heart of all kinds of complex professional tasks; if you want even more performance you’ll choose a MacBook Pro. 

So, is this a Pro Mac at a consumer price? 

Yes, and no. First, it is worth noting that Geekbench currently lists the current M4 MacBook Pro as delivering 3,750 single-core and 14,707 multicores, which basically means the new Air offers close to pro performance, but there are some compromises. 

Those compromises include a smaller display (compared to a 14.2-in. display), a slightly slower chip with significantly fewer CPU, and GPU cores than in the Pro, less memory and storage upper capacity, and battery life that is four hours shorter. (You’ll get 22 hours from a 14-in. M4 MacBook Pro compared to 18 hours from the new Air.) The MacBook Pro also offers much higher memory bandwidth, which means it can handle tougher tasks.

The differences basically come down to this: If you are doing computationally intensive work in any profession, you’ll want to go pro. But if you occasionally need to do something demanding you’ll be able to achieve it on a MacBook Air, though it might take a bit longer.

So, if you have a need for the most robust professional tasks, you should go up the scale, and if you want something that’s equal to most challenging tasks, and more than equal for most of the things most people use their computers for, then this is it. It is faster than other PCs in its class with outstanding battery life and speakers smart enough to wrap your ears in a cocoon of spatially balanced sound when you need it.

That focus on the user has always been a hallmark of the Air line-up, and the experience of using this one remains just as compelling as it was when that first one jumped out of that brown envelope back in 2010 — one of the best in its class.

Buying advice

We’re running out of superlatives. This is a significant upgrade to an already excellent machine and the addition of an M4 chip just means the world’s best-selling notebook is an even better value than before. I don’t believe a PC that offers the combined appeal of these Macs really exists, which means that if you are in the market for a computer upgrade, you should certainly take a look at this. The M4 MacBook Air maintains Apple’s tradition of notebook excellence. 

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Two new studies from ChatGPT developer Open AI and MIT show that increased use of the chatbot correlates with increased loneliness and less social time with other people, according to Bloomberg.

ChatGPT users in the study also reported feeling increasingly emotionally dependent on the chatbot the more often they used it — and they perceived their use as increasingly problematic.

The first study followed close to 1,000 people for more than a month with varying levels of experience with ChatGPT. They were either given a text version of the chatbot or one of two voice-based versions, which they used for at least five minutes a day.

Some were instructed to have open conversations about anything, while others were instructed to have either non-personal or personal conversations with the service. The researchers reportedly saw no difference in results between text-based and voice-based chatbots.

The second study analyzed 3 million user conversations from ChatGPT and surveyed how users interacted with the AI tool. The results show that very few people use ChatGPT for emotional conversations.

None of the studies have yet been reviewed by other researchers.

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By Siôn Geschwindt Last week, Elon Musk’s Starlink internet service was installed at the White House. A week before that, Donald Trump promoted Tesla on the White House front lawn, after rallying people to buy the company’s cars and stock.  The Trump administration’s endorsements of Musk’s companies are attracting growing scrutiny. Critics argue that they’re breaking laws and threatening democracy. For the world’s richest man, the relationship is also causing business problems. One involves Italy’s plans for Starlink. The country has halted talks for a proposed €1.5bn contract with the service, defence minister Guido Crosetto said in an interview Saturday.   “Everything has come…This story continues at The Next Web

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Researchers at the University of Cambridge, together with the Alan Turing Institute, Microsoft Research, and the European Center for Medium Range Weather Forecasts, have developed a new AI-based weather forecasting system — Aardvark Weather — that could revolutionize the field of meteorology.

Aardvark Weather can apparently provide weather forecasts that are tens of times more accurate, while requiring dramatically less computing power than modern systems. “Aardvark is thousands of times faster than all previous methods of weather forecasting,” Professor Richard Turner of Cambridge’s Department of Engineering, who led the research, said in a statement.

The AI system achieved this by replacing the entire process of weather forecasting with a single machine-learning model; it can take in observations from satellites, weather stations and other sensors and then generate both global and local forecasts.

In the past, a forecast required several different models, each of which relies on a supercomputer and a support team to run. With Aardvark Weather, the same work can be completed in just a few minutes and with a standard desktop computer.

The results were published in the journal Nature.

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We’re now in the century sci-fi writers made their fortunes writing about — and hardware manufacturers seem keen to explore new products and processes that make some of those predictions a reality. Just as Minority Report comes pretty close to predicting visionOS and Spatial Computing, so too will a whisper of Ringworld be reflected in the hard but soft metal substance Apple might use in future devices, principally the folding iPhone.

Liquid Metal has been around in the Apple-verse for a long time. It’s a zirconium- and titanium-based alloy stronger than steel and more flexible than aluminium; the company has licensed it since around 2010 for use as the SIM card removal tool that looks like it wants to be a paper clip and once found in the box with iPhones. While it doesn’t share all the same qualities as Larry Niven’s “Unobtanium” used to make the Ringworld space station, it does at least deliver resilience and flexibility and it’s the latter that matters according to Apple analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo.

He says Apple will use liquid metal to make the foldable hinge in the so-far-unannounced or confirmed folding iPhone it hopes to introduce next year. 

Pour me another

Kuo explains that Apple wants to use the substance to build a folding device that is flatter and more durable than existing devices of its type, as well as having a hardly discernible crease. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has previously told us that Apple really wants to build a fold mechanism that isn’t visible when unfolded and does not deteriorate in use.

To achieve this, key iPhone fold components including hinges will be crafted from liquid metal. The analyst predicts Android device makers will soon follow suit, which is good news for exclusive liquid metal supplier, Dongguan EonTec, the analyst said. Apple’s 21st-century take on a folding device is likely to be thin, like the iPhone 16e, and almost certainly built to the high-end design aesthetic Apple maintains across its product range. It will also have a high-end price to match, which implies this will be the device to slam ostentatiously on the table during board meetings. 

Et tu, Siri?

While the hardware seems to be coming into view, it’s clear that one essential component isn’t yet in place, and that’s Siri. Only two weeks ago, Kuo told us Apple wants to position the device as a true AI-driven iPhone, with the power of artificial intelligence artfully combined with the large display. The snag? Siri isn’t ready yet, which has made for big staffing changes within Apple’s Siri team. Reflecting the strategic importance of AI to Apple, CEO Tim Cook has put Apple’s best product designers in to sort Siri out, moving former Siri boss John Giannandrea aside to make way for genius engineer Mike Rockwell, who led Vision Pro development. (Giannandrea hasn’t left the company, incidentally, but seems to have been given a more limited sphere of responsibility and is no longer reporting directly to Cook, who has lost confidence in his ability to execute on product development.)

Apple’s Game Of Thrones is interesting, but what it truly represents is the importance the company attaches to Siri on iPhones — and not just iPhones. Apple has a number of additional products in the pipeline, including a home control device, some of which have allegedly also been delayed due to contextual Siri’s no-show. In that light, the fact that a folding iPhone is expected to become a poster child for AI on a mobile device depends on what the new Siri team can build.

No pressure, then.

What else do we know about the folding iPhone? In development intermittently since at least 2014, Apple’s hardware engineers now seem to feel the tech and the time is right for the device. Kuo tells us to expect a 7.8-in. display when unfolded and a 5.5-inch display at rest. You’ll have rear and front camera, eSIM, Apple’s C2 5G modem,  and Touch ID as a side button. The device should be as slim as 9mm when closed but isn’t expected to appear until next year’s main iPhone refresh cycle in late 2026. Final specifications will be set in stone later this year. Apple will likely follow this up by developing and optimizing the manufacturing process in preparation for mass production next year.

But a lot depends on getting those Siri improvements in place.

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By Siôn Geschwindt Fuelled by $15bn in financing, Northvolt was supposed to be Europe’s great battery success story — a homegrown champion capable of competing with Asian and American giants.   So when Northvolt filed for bankruptcy last week, after months of job cuts, restructuring, and multiple failed attempts to raise more money, it dealt a massive blow to Europe’s ambitions to ramp up domestic production of lithium-ion batteries, which power everything from EVs to smartphones.  In the wake of Northvolt’s precipitous fall from grace, everyone from politicians and investors to the company’s own employees has voiced their opinions on what went wrong. Among…This story continues at The Next Web

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By Robert Brull The United States has long understood a simple truth: war is won not by size alone, but by speed and creativity. Indeed, innovation has always been crucial in conflict. Armour made knights safe until the crossbow came along. High walls protected cities until cannons emerged. Trenches were made obsolete by fast-moving mechanised forces. The lesson: a military that cannot innovate is one that falls behind. Yet Europe remains stuck with an outdated model of defence procurement – one that favours a handful of bloated contractors doing the same old thing over the fresh ideas of startups and entrepreneurs. Against a…This story continues at The Next Web

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Adobe is working with Microsoft to develop an AI agent that can generate graphics and design content from within the Microsoft 365 interface.

The Adobe Express Agent, still under development, will allow users to create and embed graphics directly within productivity applications such as Word and PowerPoint, according to Aubrey Cattell, vice president for Adobe’s Creative Cloud Developer Platform and Services.

The company touted the move during this week’s Adobe Summit, but has not said when the generative AI (genAI) tool would be released; it will ultimately be available to Microsoft 365 customers as a Copilot plugin. 

“We’re building it in partnership with [Microsoft] as they kind of build out their strategy for all third-party agents,” Cattell said.

The agent can create an image for the document, suggest options to generate images, or ask questions. Users can specify within the 365 chatbot interface what images they want  to embed in documents, and the tool will then generate them.

Adobe already has a cloud-based Adobe Express app, which uses generative AI (genAI) to create content for documents, flyers, social media posts and resumes. The tool runs in browsers and mobile devices. 

The Adobe Express Agent is different, as it takes cues from a Word or PowerPoint document and can understand user intent, allowing it to create “something that’s more visual here to express ideas,” Cattell said in an interview.

“You can draw the context from what’s in the document to help you generate something that’s more germane,” Cattell said.

Once users request an image, the agent relies on Adobe’s Firefly text-to-image and text-to-design generative AI model to create content. For example, users might have a concept of a social media post or an ad campaign, which can be described to the Adobe Express Agent.

“It would generate that image and you could just drag it right into your document or into your PowerPoint presentation,” Cattell said.

A basic version of Adobe Express is already available for free. (Adobe has also integrated it  into Wix for website creation, and in Box to store and edit images.)

Adobe has also shipped an Adobe Express custom GPT for ChatGPT where users can request an image using the conversational interface. But there’s an advantage to integrating the agent with the Microsoft 365 interface.

“It’s literally a Copilot to the artifacts that knowledge workers are creating — [it] is super powerful and definitely levels us up,” Cattell said.

She stressed that Adobe’s platform strategy is to “be where our users are in the places where they’re getting work done.”

Besides creating more engaging content, Adobe’s tools are designed to be safe, understanding that organizations or creators can’t afford “oops” moments, said Liz Miller, vice president and principal analyst at Constellation Research.

“These are truly agentic additions to a worker’s day,” Miller said. “For Adobe, agents are interactive, they reason, they are autonomous, they take action. This definition is wildly important, not just for Adobe but for their customers as well.”

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Signal is standing its ground to protect its app’s security, threatening on Wednesday to leave France if encryption backdoor requirements are enacted, just as it said it would do in Sweden.

“Those hyping this bad law have rushed to assure French politicians that the proposal isn’t breaking encryption. Their arguments are as tedious as they are stale, as they are laughable. For those catching up, let’s review the basics: end to end encryption must only have two ends—sender and recipients. Otherwise, it is backdoored,” wrote Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker in a post on X.

“Whatever method is devised to add a third end—from a perverted PRNG in a cryptographic protocol, to vendor-provided government software grafted onto the side of secure communications that allow said government to add themselves to your chats—it rips a hole in the hull of private communications and is a backdoor.”

The Signal CEO added: “This is why, as always, Signal would exit the French market before it would comply with this law as written. At this moment especially, there is simply too much riding on Signal, on our being able to forge a future in which private communication persists, to allow such pernicious undermining.”

Whittaker shared similar thoughts when government officials in Sweden last month attempted a similar end run around encryption. 

Like all legislative bodies, the French legislators are debating various approaches to encryption and it’s not yet clear whether they will end up demanding an encryption backdoor. 

But even setting aside the French authorities’ ultimate decision, Whittaker’s argument about the cybersecurity disaster that will result from undermining encryption is valid.

“Communications don’t stay within jurisdictional boundaries, which means a hole created in France becomes a vector for anyone wanting to undermine Signal’s robust privacy guarantees anywhere,” Whittaker wrote. “Instead of contending with unbreakable math, they only have to compromise a French government employee, or the vendor-provided software used to sideload government operatives into your private chats.”

This encryption backdoor argument is also hitting many other governments globally. Apple, for example, is currently appealing an encryption backdoor demand from the UK, and the United States is chiding those same UK officials for even trying to demand an encryption backdoor. 

The underlying issue here is not limited to government encryption backdoors. If either side of an encrypted conversation is intercepted, the same problem occurs. The Ukrainian military, for example, is now fighting an aggressive phishing campaign that plants malware, oftentimes a keylogger, that bypasses the encryption even more effectively than would a backdoor.

Endpoint interception has also turned around and bitten the cyber crooks themselves. Europol officials in December stumbled on a cyberthief that cleverly used an app that made messages disappear a few minutes after being read. But, given that experienced thieves know enough to not trust other thieves, one of the recipients screen-captured a discussion about money-sharing with his colleagues. That act made all of his encrypted messages readable for law enforcement. 

Many issues with backdoors, say analysts

Analysts are concerned about the growing demands for backdoors. Aisling Dawson, digital security industry analyst at ABI Research, saw Whittaker’s post and said that many government encryption proposals “fail to display an understanding of the technical implications of such a backdoor” and that these governments “face the prospect of increasing numbers of organizations exiting their marketspace, triggering economic losses and reducing the number of security vendors within the ecosystem, or creating the potential for legal and judicial challenges to proposed regulatory action.”

Dawson also saw the encryption backdoor attempts as dangerous. 

“The use of terms like ‘side-client scanning’ within these proposals are complicating and perhaps deliberately obfuscating governments’ intentions with regard to these new proposals which is, at its core, a desire for more backdoors into vendors’ secure communications,” Dawson said. “Piercing through vendors’ cryptographic wall to create a governmental backdoor creates a hole, and it seems fantastical to believe cybercriminals and malicious attackers won’t also attempt to exploit that hole.”

Dawson also argued that there are legal issues raised by backdoors, above and beyond cybersecurity and privacy concerns.

“France’s proposal raises challenges when it comes to prospective defendants challenging any evidence obtained via surveillance through an encryption backdoor, given that the bill inhibits disclosure of any surveillance operations to defendants,” Dawson said. “This fundamentally runs against defendants’ right to hear and challenge evidence placed against them per their ECHR [European Convention on Human Rights] Article 6 fair trial rights.”

Other analysts shared similar concerns.

Fred Chagnon, principal research director at Info-Tech Research Group, said the encryption backdoor approach being debated by the legislators in France is somewhat different than what some other governments are considering.

“France wants to take a different approach with a ‘ghost participant,’ which would allow government entities to silently join encrypted conversations, basically creating a backdoor in real time,” Chagnon said. “Governments need to engage with these [encryption] providers to find a solution that doesn’t fundamentally weaken security instead of pushing for regulations that force companies to break their own encryption.”

And Anshel Sag, a principal analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, has more general concerns about the government activities throughout Europe around encryption.

“I think this is an unsettling trend we’re starting to see from European governments, the UK’s request of Apple being a similar issue. Backdoors are inherently problematic because they simply give bad actors opportunities to take advantage of those backdoors as well,” Sag said. “Additionally, they create a false sense of security and safety that is no longer there because of the backdoor. Backdoors are simply antithetical to the security and safety that so many of these companies have built their reputations on.”

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By Siôn Geschwindt Finnish startup Distance Technologies emerged from stealth last year with a technology it claims can turn any transparent surface into a mixed reality (MR) display. Now, it has teamed up with Patria to trial the tech on the defence firm’s armoured vehicles. The partners will jointly develop a heads-up display for Patria’s six-wheel drive armoured personnel carrier. The system will display 3D tactical data, terrain mapping, and AI-driven military insights directly onto the windshield, allowing military personnel to see in low-visibility environments like darkness and smoke.  The MR technology promises to eliminate the need for additional screens or clunky headsets.…This story continues at The Next Web

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An industry generative artificial intelligence (genAI) alliance, the AI Infrastructure Partnership (AIP), on Wednesday announced that xAI, Nvidia, GE Vernova, and NextEra Energy were joining BlackRock, Microsoft, and Global Infrastructure Partners as members. But given that the announcement specified no financial commitments or any other details, analysts doubted it would make much of a difference.

Still, even though the massive global momentum behind genAI is unlikely to be changed by the announcement, the addition of the two energy companies to the group was an implicit acknowledgement that the ever-increasing power requirements of genAI data centers need serious attention.

Scott Bickley, advisory fellow at Info-Tech Research Group, said that the massive resources behind this initiative, including Blackrock, which reported in January that it held assets worth $11.6 trillion, making it the world’s largest money manager, can make the difference.

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Sales of virtual reality (VR) headsets fell by 12% in 2024 compared to the previous year, according to a new report from analyst firm Counterpoint. The decline markers the third year in a row sales have fallen — and it is mainly on the consumer side that demand is low.

The best performer is Meta, which has a 77% market share, followed by Sony, Pico, DPVR, and Apple.

When it comes to Apple, interest in the pricey Vision Pro has increased among business users. But the headset, which went on sale just over a year ago, is still only available in 13 countries and territories.

Counterpoint expects demand for VR headsets to remain low this year, though interest in smart glasses with augmented reality (AR) capabilities is expected to increase significantly.

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