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Ubiquiti launches airOS 8.7.0 for airMAX AC devices

Earlier today, Ubiquiti launched a new update for the airMAX AC line of products, with airOS 8.7.0 which is for the PowerBeam AC, NanoStation AC, NanoBeam AC, Bullet AC, Rocket AC and more. This release comes a full five months from the last version, airOS 8.6.2 which was released back in August 2019. The main highlights of airOS 8.7.0 are that the performance for PTP connections are up to forty […]

Volkswagen launches new Taigun SUV in India

Earlier this week, Volkswagen launched a new smaller SUV in India, called the Taigun – the company says it has been ‘specifically’ designed for the Indian market and is a very similar size to the T-Cross SUV we get here in the UK and Europe. The new Taigun will go into production next year in 2021, and is part of a large investment Volkswagen has made into India. It has […]

Facebook is sixteen today

Facebook is 16 today, way back in 2004 on the 4th February Mark Zuckerberg launched the very first version of what is known today as ‘Facebook’ but at that time it was named ‘thefacebook’. We covered the history of Facebook back in 2018 when the website turned fourteen, but its worth lookign how huge the company has now become, today in 2019 Facebook runs and owns Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus […]

AWS alone, generated two thirds of Amazon’s profit for Q4 2019

We mentioned earlier today that Amazon had hit 150 million Prime members worldwide during the fourth quarter of 2019 and also, the lesser known side to Amazon, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has generated a lot of profit for the company in the last financial quarter. AWS is Amazon’s cloud platform which businesses and customers can host websites, services, storage and much, much more. AWS generated two thirds of the profit […]

Microsoft Teams was down earlier, due to a certificate issue

Earlier today, Microsoft Teams wad down for a couple of hours and while it caused some disruption for users, the actual reason behind the issue was more interesting – especially as it is coming from such a large company. According to the 365 Status Twitter account, the SSL certificate had expired for allowing the Teams app to talk to Microsoft servers. We've determined that an authentication certificate has expired causing, […]

Amazon now has 150 million Prime members

In the past week, Apple released its earnings and had an amazing Q4 quarter, as did Tesla and now Amazon has some subscriber news regarding Prime, its subscription service which offers Prime Video, free one day delivery and much much more. Amazon Prime now has 150 million members, worldwide. Assuming all 150 million people pay the $119 yearly fee, that’s $30 billion a year, just from Prime. Back in 2018 Amazon […]

Elon Musk: ‘It won’t be long’ until the Model S can go 400 miles on one charge

During Tesla’s most recent earnings call, CEO Elon Musk revealed that the Model S could have a 400 mile range before long, when the Model S and Model X switch to using the new battery cells which are currently in use with the Model 3. “We’re rapidly approaching a 400-mile range for Model S. So, it won’t be long before Model S has a 400-mile range” Elon Musk – Tesla […]

Nintendo has sold over 52 million Switch consoles

Over the holiday quarter it seemed most companies did pretty well with sales, Apple had record sales of the iPhone 11 and revenue and profit was up too. Now Nintendo has revealed its sales figures for the most recent period. Nintendo sold 10.81 million Nintendo Switch units over the holidays which is now a total of 52.48 million in total, up to the end of last year. The company is […]

New 2020 Maxda MX5 has Apple CarPlay as standard

The latest version of the Mazda MX-5 for 2020 is launching soon and it now has Apple CarPlay and Android Auto integrated as standard across all the model versions. The model is fairly unchanged from the 2019 version, it now has sport-tuned suspension off the Grand Touring versions as standard, new colour options and also Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as standard. Inside the car is a 7-inch touchscreen, two […]

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, the iPad turned ten years old, Apple had an amazing quarter for Q4 and now has 1.4 billion active devices worldwide, Volkswagen could be fined £110 million by Canadian prosecutors, The Beastie Boys have a new documentary on Apple TV+ coming soon and the […]