Technology

Microsoft has added CarPlay support to Teams

Today, Microsoft has updated its video conferencing app, Teams to now support Apple CarPlay, as well as a few other improvements. The CarPlay addition will allow drivers to make and take calls on Teams, while in the car which is useful for people always on the road needing to talk to people at the office in a group call style. Microsoft has also added support for the way the app […]

Mariah Carey has a Christmas special launching on Apple TV+ this week

This Friday on Apple TV+, a new holiday special from Mariah Carey is coming, titled Mariah Carey’s Magical Christmas Special and starring Carey herself as well as guests such as Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, Misty Copeland, Snoop Dogg, Jermaine Dupri, Billy Eichner, Tiffany Haddish and Mykal-Michelle Harris. Carey has a new single out, called “Oh Santa!” which will make its debut on the show as well as on Apple Music this […]

UK will be banning the use of Huawei equipment for 5G rollout next year

From September 2021, the UK will be banning the installation of any Huawei 5G equipment due to the company being a “high risk vendor” and this is stemming from pressure from the US. The news came today from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport section of the UK government, and they are looking to remove Huawei from any future network rollouts and going forward, equipment from Nokia and […]

Deal: Netatmo Weather Station has £59 off today on amazon.co.uk

The Netatmo weather station is a good gift for you or for your family at Christmas, smaller indoor unit can monitor the temperature outdoors, plus humidity and air quality and the larger unit can measure CO2 levels in door, temperature and much more. The system is modular, so can easily add a rain collector, wind monitor and up to three additional room sensors in the home. Usually it is £149.99 […]

LIFX working on Adaptive Lighting feature for HomeKit

When Apple launched iOS 14, a new feature called Adaptive Lighting was introduced and the support for it is down to the light manufacturers to update their lights, so far Philips is the only company who has added support and it seems LIFX is working on it, according to a thread on Reddit. Adaptive Lighting will allow the lights to adjust the temperature over the course of the day with […]

Apple TV app is now coming to more Sony TVs

The Apple TV is yet again rolling out to more TVs, this time Sony is acting on its promise from 2019 to add to the app to its line of smart TVs, the app was started to roll out, but as it happens only one line of TVs received the app, the X900H line of TVs. Apple TV app, when on non Apple platforms provides access to Apple TV Channels, […]

Apple is moving some MacBook and iPad production to Vietnam from China

Apple has asked its contractor Foxconn to move some production of iPads and MacBooks to Vietnam instead of China due to some trade tensions between the US and China lately and it would make sense as Apple already assembles the AirPods in Vietnam. Foxconn is building assembly lines for Apple’s ‌iPad‌ tablet and MacBook laptop at its plant in Vietnam’s northeastern Bac Giang province, to come online in the first […]

Ubiquiti introduces new airFiber 60GHz LR

Ubiquiti has recently introduced the new long range version of the airFiber 60 enabling up to a claimed range of 12km. Ubiqiuti has developed a new ‘WaveTechnology’ beaming forming allowing the devices to connect to each other when they are not quite aligned perfectly. There is a separate 2.4GHz chip for connecting a phone to and using the UISP app to set up the device, but there is no 5GHz […]

Google TV app is not showing Netflix content anymore

Google TV which is the company’s new app on Android and the new Chromecast is designed as a one stop shop for looking for new shows, films to watch as well a keeping track of current shows you’re watching across multiple different services. However when the app launched recently, it was surprising as it had access to Netflix content which is something the company is famously not happy in partaking […]

Volkswagen ID.3 was the best selling electric car in Europe last month

Here in Europe, electric car sales have been increasing by a lot, based on the numbers of October 2020 which saw an increase of 153% compared to October 2019. Last month, 1,127,624 cars were registered and 26.8% of those cars were electric with the best selling car being the brand new Volkswagen ID.3, which sold 10,475. Earlier this year in April, Tesla saw success as the best selling overall car […]