Will Apple introduce AR glasses this month?

Apple may or may not hold an October Apple event& where it may or may not introduce its long-in-development augmented reality (AR) glasses. That's the current sense of the company's plans based on new claims from TF Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo.

First therethe rumor…

Kuo now says Apple will ship its long-awaited AR glasses during the second quarter of 2020; his report does seem to cast a little shade over expectations of another Apple event this month.Thatbecause he also says we shouldn&t expect new iPad Pros until Q1 2020, when Kuo also expects us to see some form of replacement for the iPhone SE.

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Patch Tuesday preliminary report: Looks like the fourth timea charm

All we had to do was wait.

If you recall, on Sept. 23 Microsoft posted manual patches for the CVE-2019-1367 Internet Explorer zero-day hole, and the blogosphere went wild with warnings of imminent doom. Predictably, we haven&t seen any real-world attacks, but the bugs those patches introduced were very real.

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Wayback Wednesday: Twice as nice

Itthe 1990s, and PCs are coming into the workplace, much to the dismay of some workers. This net admin pilot fish at a big manufacturing plant sees it all firsthand because shebeen given the extra duty of chief PC troubleshooter.

For example, the manager whose secretary calls fish to complain that his drive mappings aren&t working. Fish knows that nothing has changed in the login script, and it looks like the manageraccount isn't locked out, so she makes a deskside visit.

Where fish successfully logs on to the managerPC, no troubles. So the manager gives it a go. He types his username and password, then hesitantly hits the Enter key. This time the drive mappings don&t work.

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Here's why there won&t be a quick enterprise blockchain revolution

While billions of dollars are being spent on blockchain, and that spending is expected to grow exponentially over the next five years, the distributed ledger technology will never spark a technology revolution in the enterprise where preference always favors centralized control.

"I don't think we will ever see a revolution in the enterprise," said Avivah Litan, a vice president of research at Gartner. "No one wants to give up authority. Think about it. It goes against an enterprise's ability to control their own destiny. Full, complete blockchain is about no central authority. It's just peer-to-peer."

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Apple Removes Police-Tracking App Used In Hong Kong Protests From Its App Store
The tech company said the app violated its rules because it was used to ambush police and by criminals who used it to victimize residents in areas with no law enforcement.

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Verily, Alphabetother money-making, non-Google business, partners with Color on genetic analysis

Color Genomics, the genetics testing company, is partnering with Alphabethealth technology focused subsidiary, Verily Life Sciences, to provide information from its genetic tests to the companyBaseline Health Study participants.

The emphasis from both companies is on providing &actionable& results.

While genetic testing services have caught the publicimagination for their ability to provide insights into an individualancestry, the technology has proven to be less effective in providing insights on health that accurate enough to be clinically relevant.

Through the partnership, Project Baseline Health participants will be able to access Colorphysician-ordered genomics testing services and the companyboard-certified genetic counselors and pharmacists to help them understand what their genetic tests indicate about their risks for certain cancers, heart disease, and genes that can effect medication responses, the company said.

Offering the Color genetic testing services is another way Verily is trying to entice people into its attempt to provide a map of overall population health using the latest in data science and testing technologies.

Colorgenetic tests can be ordered online with participants taking their own samples at home. Users then receive counseling over the phone and tests are done . in a matter of weeks, according to the company.

By offering Colorconsultation services, Verily is hoping to ensure that the genetic information that participants in its &Baseline& study are providing benefit individuals as well as the studyarchitects.

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