This week, Chevrolet has revealed some updates for the Corvette with some minor updates, new colours and some engines enchainments. First off, the car is getting three new colours, with Hypersonic Gray, Caffeine and Amplify Orange Tintcoat. The large 6.2-litre V8 is getting some minor tweaks too, Chevrolet say that the engine calibration has been improved and the fuel injection system has been upgraded. The level of power is the […]
Apple announced its new operating systems for 2021 this week at WWDC and a few tidbits have come out in the past few days, one of them is the addition of Lower Power Mode to macOS Monterey and iPadOS 15, marking the first time the feature has moved beyond the iPhone since the feature was introduced. Low Power Mode came to the iPhone in 2015 with iOS 9 and throttles […]
Ford put its new all electric truck, the F-150 Lighting up for pre-order around three weeks ago and the company gained 44,500 pre-orders in 48 hours. By comparison, when the Cybertruck went up for pre-order, Tesla had 250,000 orders in the first five days. Jim Farley, CEO of Ford spoke to the New York Times this week about the F-150 Lightning and said that the pre-orders had already hit 100,000. […]
Apple purchased popular weather app, Dark Sky little over a year ago now and has slowly been picking away at the pieces and integrating them into the stock iOS weather app. Last year with iOS 14, Apple added support for seeing the precipitation forecast fo the immediate future, which would show on a widget if it was going to rain soon. Then this week, when Apple previewed iOS 15 at […]
Skoda has recently announced the Kodiaq which has received a redesign in certain areas as well as some new technology and the return of the vRS performance model, this time with petrol powering it rather than diesel. The new Kodiaq, like its smaller Kamiq and Karoq siblings are all based on the MQB platform from the VW Group and this is shared between Seat, VW and Skoda. The new Kodiaq […]
Vauxhall has released some preview images this week of what the new, upcoming Astra is destined to look like. The new hatchback, which is similar in size to the Ford Focus and Peugeot 308 is due to be fully revealed in the UK later this year. This will be the eighth-generation of the car and this is the first time it’ll based on the Stellantis platform, of which Vauxhall came […]
Jaguar updated the I-Pace here in the UK last summer, with faster charging and the company’s new infotainment screen, Pivi Pro – which features an eSIM for internet access for the mapping system. Jaguar has now updated the I-Pace for the US market with most of these changes, with the Pivi Pro infotainment screen, featuring over the air updates and the new faster 11kW AC charger. This now means an […]
Internet access on planes isn’t usually very good and Starlink from SpaceX is looking to potentially help some of those issues. Starlink has been rolling out in the US and the UK over the past few months and it seems like a good solution for those users who live in remote areas and have poor and expensive infrastructure. The Starlink dish is powered by PoE, with a single injector and […]
Mercedes has announced recently that it is partnering with Apple to have native integration into its new MBUX infotainment system for Apple Music. Other companies have done this recently, with Porsche adding native Apple Music and Podcasts support last summer. The MBUX system comes on the C-Class, S-Class, and the all electric EQS and the Apple Music integration is different to CarPlay which needs a phone connected all the time, […]
Apple announced iOS 15 and its other software plans for this year at WWDC earlier this week and notable feature is that AirPods are getting supported in the Find My network. Currently, AirPods and Beats headphones do show up in the Find My app, but their location only updates when they have been connected to another device, if you lose them it is essentially game over. However, in iOS 15 […]
