Author: Alex Lowe

New Mazda MX-5 Recaro has won the World Car of the Year 2016

The latest generation of Mazda MX-5 may have been initially criticised for the looks but the new forth generation incarnation does look good and it’s actually a good car as the MX-5 has just picked up the World Car of the Year 2016 award at the New York Motor Show. The plucky little sports car beat the likes of the Mercedes GLC SUV as well as the Jaguar XE, a car […]

Welcome to Home Networking Month

For the entirety of April, A&T Tech will be publishing helpful tips on home networking, suggesting significant upgrades for your router, cabling and some ingenious systems to work out how much data is really being used in your home. This isn’t just what we want to post or write about, there will also be a F&Q section where if any readers have any questions about home networking we will do our best to […]

Google’s Nik photo editing suite is now completely free

A few year back in 2012, Google acquired Nik Software, the company behind Snapped but Google didn’t just want it for the app, Nik also made a selection of powerful plunge for Photoshop and Apple’s now discontinued Aperture software. Google has now decided to make Color Efex Pro, Analog Efex Pro, Silver Efex Pro and more completely free to download. The tools used to cost $150 and allow you to easily turn photos […]

Poll: Would you buy the iPhone SE?

With the new smaller iPhone SE released earlier this week and pre-orders also opened just a few days ago, here at A&T Tech we were wondering if people are actually going to buy the new 4-inch iPhone over the bigger iPhone 6s.   Vote below [pollcaster widget=”poll” id=”GyVgHuS8A6F7FSxfoZaTg6c7iuf” width=”100%” height=”auto”]

Microsoft’s Surface Hub is now on sale, starts at $7,000

Last year at the Microsoft event in January, the company mainly focused in the release of Windows 10 and the beta process for the release in July, but a few other tidbits and interesting new products were announced along side the operating system news. One was the ‘HoloLens’ headset and the gigantic Surface Hub display, which supports the use of a stylus pen to draw on various pages or diagrams. […]

iPhone SE and 9.7-inch iPad Pro pre-orders now open

Earlier this week Apple announced the new smaller and faster iPhone SE as well as the 9.7-inch edition of the iPad Pro. Also the company revealed a few extras such as software, accessories and Apple Watch bands. iOS 9.3 was a big upgrade in it’s own right introduced a new feature called ‘Night Shift’ which automatically manages the amount of blue light that your device is emitting at night time to help […]

iOS 9.3 is now available to download

Along with the new smaller iPad Pro, smaller iPhone and new Apple Watch goodies – Apple has just released a slew of software updates for iOS, OS X, watchOS and tvOS. In this post we’ll focus on iOS 9.3, separate posts will be released containing information about the other updates. What’s new? After a few months in beta testing, Apple have now released the final version of iOS 9.3 for […]

Apple launches new smaller iPhone SE

As heavily rumoured all this year, Apple has launched a new smaller iPhone called the ‘iPhone SE’ today at the Town Hall located at Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino. In design the entire phone looks exactly the same as the older iPhone 5s but adds most of the internals from the current iPhone 6s which has the 64-bit A9 chip with M9 co-motion processor for hands-free Siri. Apple stated in the keynote […]

New 2017 Ford Escape in the US will have CarPlay

Ford announced earlier this week that the first car in the US to support Sync 3 will be the brand new 2017 Ford Escape, the model is one of the company’s best selling models and the newest edition focuses more on refinement and quality. The addition of Sync 3 also makes Apple CarPlay and Android Auto available for users, bringing Siri, Apple Music, Apple Maps and more to your dashboard. […]

Google is offering $100,000 to anyone who can hack a Chromebook

It’s long been known that Chromebooks are very secure for users and so far no one has hacked the system even with some serious incentives from Google in the past. Google has just increased the cash reward to any hacker or anyone willing to try who can “persistently compromise” a Chromebook and the software on it, until a few days ago the offer stood at $50,000 and still unclaimed so […]