Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Thursday August 30th 2018. I'm Brian McCullough.

Today, an Apple acquisition suggests they're serious about AR.

Uber is serious about e-scooters.

Google lets Kubernetes leave the nest.

Your IP address is no longer enough to finger you for a crime, and a fully functional

Bugatti made out of Legos.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Reuters reports that Apple has acquired Aconia Holographics, a Colorado

based company that makes hollow mirror lenses for augmented reality glasses and owns a pile of

patents in the space. Last year Bloomberg reported that Apple is developing

AR glasses that might ship as early as 2020, so one would assume that this is related

to that.

Using its traditional no comment style response, though, Apple said, quote, Apple buys smaller companies from time to time and we

generally don't discuss our purpose or plans end quote. Well even if Apple won't talk

about it everybody else is trying to read the tea leaves. Reuters says that Aconia's hollow mirror technology would allow for,

thin transparent smart glass lenses that display vibrant full color wide field of view images end quote

a Konia's technology is different from current AR headsets on the market from magic leap

and Microsoft which use darkened lenses designed for indoor use only.

Quoting again from writers, the Aconia acquisition is the first clear indication

of how Apple might handle one of the most daunting challenges in

augmented reality hardware,

producing crystal clear optical displays thin and light enough to fit into glasses similar to everyday frames

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