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Despite the frequent face plants, connected gadgets aren’t going away. There’s an argument to be made for going slow in adopting this technology, www.jonhaylett.co.uk Adidas ZX 750 Femme particularly when it offers trivial benefits. But connectivity is already becoming standard on new cars, speakers, thermostats and doorbells — some of which are quite useful. The world will have nearly 19 billion connected “things” by 2020, triple the number from 2016, the Gartner research company Nike Air Max 90 Mujer estimates.There’s a ton at stake for our security and privacy, not to mention sanity and money. So how do we get the good connected things and avoid the ones that are going to end up on the Internet of S--- list? Nike says it has now fixed its shoes, but we Nike Air Max 270 Mujer can learn a few Nike Air Max 90 Femme things about staying in control from how it bricked them in the first place.