Technology

Ford drops diesel Fiesta from the UK lineup due to low sales volumes

There is slowly a steady decline on diesel cars here in the UK, with the preference becoming mild hybrids and fully electric vehicles. Earlier this year Skoda dropped the diesel versions of the Kamiq due to poor demand and Seat did the same with the Ibiza and Arona as customer demand for the diesel versions was low. Now this week, Ford has axed all diesel versions of the Fiesta in […]

Amazon has a new all electric delivery van it built with Rivian

Amazon is working towards making delivering its goods more environmentally friendly and one good way to do that is remove combustion based delivery vehicles. Enter the new all electric delivery van from Amazon, built with Rivian – a company best known for their upcoming electric pickup and SUV. The new van doesn’t actually have a name that we could find from Amazon, weirdly. “Amazon is excited to reveal its first […]

Leaker suggests that new smaller HomePod is due in November for under $100

We all know the HomePod is quite a bit more expensive than the rest of the smart speaker market, which has seemed to effect its sales but its sound quality more than makes up for it, however Apple seems to want to cater to more of the market than the current model does with a rumoured upcoming smaller model, dubbed ‘HomePod mini’ which would retail for $99. The current HomePod […]

Apple will be providing extra free trial time for Apple TV+ subscribers

According to Rene Ritchie on Twitter, Apple will be providing extra free trial time for current subscribers of Apple TV+. The service launched last year on 1st November and to go alongside the launch, Apple started offering a free 1 year trial of the service and that offer is actually still on as of today. If you purchase a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac or iPod touch the free […]

Netflix will be raising prices in Canada in a few weeks

Netflix is planning on raising prices in Canada in the next few weeks, but the new prices will be immediately available if someone signs up today for example, but will be rolling out to current subscribers in the next couple of weeks. The standard HD plan which supports two screens is going up by $1 from $14CAD to $15CAD. The pricer 4K plan, which allows four screens is going up […]

Dickinson on Apple TV+ is back for Season 2 in January

Back in November last year, when Apple TV+ was launched Dickinson was one of the original launch shows along with The Morning Show, For All Mankind and See. Now Dickinson has already filmed the second season as well as being renewed for a third one. Dickinson stars Hailee Steinfeld, who plays Emily Dickinson, a famous poet. The new season will be available on Apple TV+ on Friday 8th January 2021 and like most new Apple TV+ shows, […]

Google Pixel 2 will be getting its last update later this year

The Google Pixel 2 and Pixel 2XL were introduced at the end of 2017 and just last month, both phones received an update for Android 11 and this week they also had a new security update but come December this year they’ll be one last update and that’s it for these devices, after that they’ll be considered end of life and will have no more bug fix updates or security […]

Microsoft has rebranded Bing to ‘Microsoft Bing’

This week, Microsoft has announced that Bing is being rebranded to sit under the Microsoft name, with a new name of Microsoft Bing. The company has said that this change is part of “the continued integration of our search experiences across the Microsoft family.” Microsoft Bing has a new logo, new look home page and the Microsoft logo is now more present too. Source: Microsoft

Tesla accounts now support 2FA

Considering how important your Tesla account is and what can be controlled if someone had access to it, the fact that Tesla hasn’t support two factor authentication (2FA) until now isn’t great, but at least they have it now. Even Elon Musk said Tesla is “embarrassingly late” to have support for it. Musk said back in August that 2FA would be coming soon and today we have it. At the […]

Ford announces new Fiesta ST Edition

This week, Ford has announced a new limited edition version of the existing Fiesta ST with the ‘ST Edition’. Only 500 units are to be produced, with 300 coming to the UK. Changes include gloss black detailing on the diffuser, spoiler and new more vibrant ST badges. New alloy wheels which are 8kg lighter than the standard wheels and the Edition has the same adjustable suspension that came on the […]