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Goodwood Festival of Speed has been postponed

Goodwood Festival of Speed this year has been postponed, like many larger events and car shows has been postponed to a later date, due to the current outbreak of the coronavirus. Originally the festival was due to take place in July, between the 9th and 12th. Goodwood has said that the new date will be revealed soon. “Over the last few weeks, we have been working together with everyone involved […]

Contactless payment limit raised to £45 from £30 in the UK

What with all the news and issues happening right now with coronavirus, the importance of not touching cash and physical buttons on a keypad is more important than ever. This could be part of the reason why the contactless card limit has been increased from £30 to £45. The increase will take place in a few days on the 1st April. However, while it sounds like a good idea health […]

Sony to limit PlayStation download speeds

Sony has reduced the download speeds between you and its servers, but only for game downloads in the US and Europe. Sony is hoping this will help reduce the amount of bandwidth used to help stabilise the network for users, as a lot more people are using the the PSN network during the coronavirus outbreak, with a lot of people now staying home and self isolating. Sony is only reducing […]

Ubiquiti releases 1.5.6 for the UniFi Dream Machine

A few days ago, Ubiquiti released a new update for the UDM-Base, otherwise known as the UniFi Dream Machine. Version 1.5.6 includes the UniFi Network Controller, version 5.12.60 which itself has a lot of bug fixes. The release notes are below, but most notable is the stability improvement for PPPoE connections and also the fix for the insights page, where before it would not display any information. Release Notes Improvements […]

Seat has now taken the Alhambra MPV off sale

Seat is planning on stopping production of the Seat Alhambra MPV at the end of March, and it has already pulled the car from sale. Seat introduced the Alhambra back in the late 90s and it was based on the Volkswagen Sharan at the time and now after over two decades on the market, Seat has decided to pull the car. This is just a sign of the times, MPVs […]

What is the difference between contactless payments and Apple Pay?

Apple Pay has been available in the UK for nearly five years now, when it launched in July 2015 and unlike other countries where Apple Pay has launched since, here in the UK we have had contactless cards for a while too – since 2007, which on the surface seems very similar to Apple Pay and Google Pay. What is a contactless card? To understand the difference between Apple Pay […]

Amazon Prime Video now has user profiles

A few days ago, Amazon updated its Prime Video apps on multiple platforms to now support multiple users, a feature which has been a long time coming. Netflix has had this feature for many years and the newly launched Disney+ service already has this feature. Prime Video now has multiple profiles for users as well as Kid’s profiles too. Amazon is launching the feature in only a few countries so […]

Google I/O was cancelled, but now it won’t even happen online

In early March, Google announced that its annual I/O developer was cancelled due to the ongoing coronavirus health concerns and that it would be looking to host it differently this time but a few weeks ago, Google announced that the entire event has been cancelled in order “to prioritize the health of everybody who is a part of our community.” Google has said in order to help protect the health […]

Weekends with A&T Tech – Best stories of the week

Another week has gone by and it’s time, once again to go over the best stories we covered here on A&T Tech. In the news this week, Apple has said at the end of the year, the App Store will come to twenty more countries, Apple released iOS 13.4 and iPadOS 13.4, with support for iCloud Drive Folder Sharing and full cursor support on iPad. Apple also released tvOS 13.4 was […]

Seat had a record breaking year in 2019, thanks mainly to SUV sales

This week, Seat announced that it had a record breaking sales year in 2019, thanks mainly to the increase of SUV sales. The company now offers a wide array of SUV models, from the smaller Arona, mid-size Ateca and the larger Tarraco. The Tarraco is one of the company’s newest SUV models. Also, the Cupra brand sits under Seat and offers the Cupra Ateca as a high performance alternative. Seat […]