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Aston Martin has reportedly canceled plans for the Rapide E

Aston Martin has been promising and promising us an all electric version of the Rapide saloon car, which was and still is the company’s only four door model. The Rapide E has been on the cards since as early as 2015, with the original plan to make 155 of them for an undisclosed price. This week, car magazine Autocar has been told from a source close to Aston Martin that the Rapide […]

Apple begins replacement program for iPhone XS battery cases

Last week, Apple has started a new replacement program for its official battery cases for the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and iPhone XR. The program covers cases which were manufactured between January 2019 and October 2019 and the issue was that the case would either not charge at all or only charge sometimes. Apple said it will replace any cases for up to two years after they were sold. […]

Volkswagen T-Cross range gets new more powerful engine in the lineup

The Volkswagen T-Cross is the company’s smallest SUV and now it has a new more powerful engine option, which is its most powerful yet. The new engine is a 1.5-litre petrol engine with 150bhp, paired with a dual clutch 7-speed automatic gearbox, Before this new engine, the most powerful option was a 1.0-litre petrol with 115bhp. The new engine takes the T-Cross from 0-60 in 8.5 seconds, which is just […]

Amazon says Honey browser add on is a ‘security risk’

On the internet, nothing is free. Whether you actually have to hand over money for a service, or if you become the product. And one of the supposed next risks is Honey, the ‘free’ browser add-on for every browser out there and which has been appearing on YouTube adverts for the past year. According to Wired, shortly before Christmas last year Amazon started showing pop-up warnings to say that the […]

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, CES dominated the news, but other things happened too, we had HomeKit support finally added to the IKEA smart blinds, we learnt that the Apple TV app will be added to some Sony and Vizio TVs later this year, Rivan and Lamboghini vehicles will […]

Twitter will add new ‘Conversation Participants’ option so you can limit replies

This week at CES, Twitter announced a few new upcoming features to the platform and the head of product management spoke about some new features related to conversations. Suzanne Xie, the product management head said that Twitter will be adding a new setting for controlling the people who can reply to certain conversations with the option for “Global, Group, Panel, and Statement.” Twitter has become a bit toxic in places, […]

Apple now has a photo challenge for iPhone 11 Night Mode photos

This week, Apple announced a new challenge for iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro customers to take part in, a new ‘Night Mode Photo’ challenge which invites users to take their best photos using the new smarts of latest iPhone models. The iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro models have a feature called ‘Night Mode’ which allows the phone to detect low light and adjust accordingly, the feature is very […]

Samsung Galaxy Home Mini will be launching early this year

Samsung at CES this week has finally announced when its Bixby smart speaker will be launching, with the first version being the Galaxy Home Mini. This is actually different speaker to the one we saw around 18 months ago at the Samsung Note 9 event, this one being a smaller version and it’ll go on sale early this year. Samsung spoke to Bloomberg this week who said, the Galaxy Home […]

New Volkswagen Up! GTI for 2020 is now available to order

Volkswagen discontinued the Up! GTI here in the UK eight months ago due to the way emissions are tested with the new WLTP testing procedure and also the allocation of cars for the UK had already been allocated. Volkswagen’s baby hot hatch received many highly praised reviews by car magazines such as Top Gear and is loved by owners all over, so as of today Volkswagen has updated the entire […]

Fiat Panda and 500 have new mild hybrid options

Today, Fiat has introduced two new electrified versions of the existing 500 and Panda city cars and while this isn’t Fiats first electric vehicle as the Fiat 500e was introduced to the US market back in 2013 and hasn’t been updated since, it is at least some good steps towards the brands electrification plans. Both cars are going to launch in a few months time, the 500 in February and […]