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Apple is now asking developers to return the Mac mini DTK by end March

Back in June last year, right at the very start of the announcement for Apple’s own silicon for Macs, the company announced the DTK for developers to help them transition to the new line of Macs which were announced late last year. The DTK Mac mini had the A12Z chip, from the current iPad Pro, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD, two USB-C ports, one HDMI port an two legacy USB-A ports. […]

ECG on Apple Watch now approved in Australia

The Apple Watch has now been approved for ECG use in Australia this week by the government meaning all Apple Watch users, who have Series 4 or later will soon have access to the ECG feature once Apple releases it. The ECG app on Apple Watch Series 4, Series 5 and Series 6 can run an electrocardiogram which looks at the timing of the heartbeat, the Apple Watch spits out […]

Google Maps now supports dark mode on Android

Last week, Google started rolling out a proper dark mode for Google Maps on Android. This was announced last week and the feature has been in testing since September, but as of last week the feature is now rolling out to users “soon.” Google is also making some changes to Android Auto, with a split screen dashboard similar to what CarPlay has had since iOS 13, but only cars with […]

WhatsApp Desktop now supports voice and video calls

Today, WhatsApp for desktop has been updated to now support audio and video calling for the first time. The desktop client is available on Mac and PC and it is surprising that it hasn’t had this ability up until now. WhatsApp say that all the calls, video or audio are all end-to-end encrypted. WhatsApp calls work between Facebook Portal, Android, iOS and more wherever the client app is supported. However […]

Hyundai has had to recall 76,000 cars due to fire risk

Hyundai is having to recall 75,680 Kona EVs worldwide due to issues with the batteries. The main issue came from when Hyundai issued a software upgrade to a batch of Kona vehicles which would limit the cars charging to 90%. However one car that had been upgraded happened to catch fire in South Korea in January this year. After this issue occurred, the Korean Transport Ministry investigated but determined the […]

Ubiquiti UniFi Cloud Key Gen2 vs Cloud Key Gen2+

Ubiquiti launched the Cloud Key Gen2 line of devices back at the end of 2018, and when compared to the previous first generation, the new models have a lot of advancements. For starters, the old model would have database issues when power was lost, be it a power cut or manually unplugged. Ubiquiti solved this issue by building in a backup battery inside, so when the device loses power, the […]

Contactless payments limit to be raised to £100 in the UK

Today it has been announced that here in the UK, the contactless payments limit is set to be increased from £45 to £100. Back in 2015 the limit was upped from £20 to £20 and then at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was increased to £45 to avoid the use of cash. However as some COVID-19 restrictions are set to be reduced in the UK, the increase in […]

Report: Mitsubishi could start selling in Europe again

Mitsubishi announced back in August last year that it will be leaving the UK and Europe and therefore no new models would be launched at all, due to profitability issues. However the company could be planning on staying thanks to the existing Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance. A new report from the Financial Times suggests that in order to cut down costs, some of the cars could be moved to France for example, […]

Ubiquiti Dream Machine and Dream Machine Pro now support multiple WAN IPs

For a long time, Ubiquiti’s line of USG firewalls and the new UDM all in one machines have always been lacking a few routing and firewall features which have made them not a great choice for more advanced use cases. One of those much needed features is having multiple IP addresses on one WAN interface. This kind of thing can be used for having multiple servers on the LAN that […]

Apple has now reopened of its stores in the US

In the US, Apple has 270 physical retail stores and as of Monday this week, that have all reopened up again, following on from when Apple, along with other retailers started closing stores temporarily back in March 2020. Throughout the pandemic in the US all of Apple’s stores have been opening and reopening on a regular basis. However this isn’t a sign that everything is back to normal, Apple is […]