President Trump has basically been banned off of every social media platform going, Facebook banned him first last week, followed by Twitter, YouTube and now Snapchat. Other non-social media platforms such as Shopfiy have stepped in to ban the president too. This all stems from the widely spread news from last week and the group of Trump supports which stormed the US Capitol building. Twitter banned him for invoking violence and […]
Apple has chosen to close all of its five Apple retails stores in the Washington area in the US at least until near the end of this month in order to keep employees safe as well as the physical store. This is following on from the issues last week, where protesters stormed the US Capitol building. Ahead of the Inauguration Day on the 20th January, the US Capitol building is […]
According to a report from Canalys Apple managed to ship 16% more Macs in 2020 than it did in 2019, but as the report point out it is still behind its main PC rivals, such as Dell, HP and Lenovo. The fact they are behind isn’t surprising, there isn’t a lot of companies willing to shell out over £900 per machine for an employee when it can tick the same box […]
Just wanted to take the time to thank everyone who comes to the A&T Tech site to read what we do, it means a lot. Also wanted to provide an update, as we have changed the way we run the week a little bit. Since the site was started, Monday to Friday has been news days, Friday evening was the Week in Tech newsletter and then on a Saturday the […]
This week, Volkswagen has issues a voluntary update of over 56,000 models of the new eighth generation Golf 8, with 7,400 of them being here in the UK. The update will update the software on the cars that were made before July 2020 and it addresses issues with the infotainment system and reversing camera. Volkswagen has had some issues with software QA lately, on the Golf 8 itself and on […]
Today, Citroën has announced the all new e-Berlingo, the first small all electric van from the PSA group so far and it is actually the fist of three new electric vans the group is planning on launching in this year alone. PSA, which also owns DS, Peugeot, Opel/Vauxhall and Citroën is planning on completely making the van line up fully electric by the year 2025. Like the other larger vans […]
Tesla’s latest model, the mid size SUV Model Y is now a five star rated car for safety, as awarded by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA). The NHTSA looks at crash safety, with regards to impacts from the side, front and what happens if the car rolls over. The Model Y has come out on top in the whole test. The Model 3, Model X and Model S […]
Bakery chain in the US, Panera Bread has said out some marketing messages this week to customers with a new Apple Pay promotion located in the official Panera Bread app. If you sign up to the MyPanera+ Coffee subscription, which is $9 per month you’ll get et your first four months of coffee at no charge. The campaign is called “stay warm this winter with Apple Pay” is only availble […]
Ubiquiti has an issue today with its remote access cloud broker, which enables remote access to on premise devices, such as NVR video recorders and application servers managing enterprise networking devices, such as the Cloud Key line of products and the UniFi Dream Machines. The issue only seems to be affecting UniFi OS devices, meaning Cloud Key Gen2 devices running the most recent software, the UNVR, UDM Pro and the […]
BMWs new M3 and M4 have now gone on sale, starting at £74,755 for the top of the line Competition spec. Both cars are available to order now with initial deliveries starting in March this year. The most expensive M3 with all the options can reach over £100,000. Both cars have a six-cylinder engine with 503bhp and for the first time in the 3 Series and 4 Series, the option […]
