Technology

Volkswagen launch new Polo Match to replace the SE

This week, Volkswagen has updated the Polo range to include a new trim level, the Polo Match which will now take the place of the SE in the line up. Starting at £16,465, you now get 15-inch alloy wheels, front fog lights, rear tinted-windows, and front and rear parking sensors. All of those options were optional extras on the SE. All the other trim levels of the Polo still remain, […]

The first generation Philips Hue Bridge hub will lose access to the internet in April

Phillips introduced the original Hue Bridge back in 2012, at the same the company released the Hue line of light bulbs and now eight years later, Phillips has announced that on the 30th April 2020 the first generation hub will lose access to the internet and to any connected services that it works with currently. The first generation hub currently works with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa but not Apple […]

Lamborghini temporarily closes Sant’Agata plant due to coronavirus

Lamborghini has had to temporarily close its Sant’Agata plant due to the recent coronavirus outbreak, the factory will be closed from the 13th March to the 25th March to help contain the spread of the virus in Italy. Lamborghini is also based in Northern Italy, where most of the cases of coronavirus are in the country. “This measure is an act of social responsibility and high sensibility towards our people. […]

Windows 10 is now installed on over one billion devices, world wide

Windows 10 was introduced nearly five years ago, the five year anniversary will be this July and Microsoft has now achieved what it set out to do originally. Get Windows 10 installed on a lot of devices. Windows 10 is now installed on over one billion devices, world wide. Windows 10 is on everything from games consoles, laptops, tablets to desktop PCs in homes, businesses and schools. Microsoft has also hinted […]

All Apple retail stores outside of China are now closed until 27th March

Late last week, Apple announced that every physical retail store outside of China will now be closed until the 27th March due to the coronavirus outbreak. In weeks prior, the stores in China were closed for a number of weeks, and those have recently reopened. Apple has also announced that it is donating $15 million to help reduce the impact of the virus. Apple’s committed donations to the global COVID-19 […]

Apple has said WWDC this year will be a ‘digital-only event’

On Friday last week, Apple announced that for this year the annual WWDC developers conference will take place online only, due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Usually at WWDC a few thousand devolpers from all around the world spend a few hours together in one huge room for the Keynote on the Monday morning and then spend all week talking to Apple engineers and with the ongoing coronavirus issues, it […]

Suzuki New Zealand has made and is selling Jimny pick-ups

In Australia and New Zealand, the ute is a very popular vehicle to own – its basically a saloon car or a small 4×4 converted into a pickup with generally only two seats. Holden in Australia will be closed down next year, but currently it makes some interesting ute models, the Holden Commodore has a model which has a V8. Suzuki New Zealand has done something pretty interesting with 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, we’ve got rumours about an upcoming OnePlus 8 lineup, Disney has revealed the content lineup for Disney+ when it launches here in the UK at the end of the month, the New York motor show has been postponed to August and much more. Here […]

Tesla has now built one million electric vehicles

This week, Tesla achieved a pretty large milestone. It has now produced over one million cars and the one-millionth one was a Model Y, the company’s latest model which is due to be shipping to customers very soon. Elon Musk (Tesla CEO), shared some photos on Twitter. Congratulations Tesla team on making our 1,000,000th car!! pic.twitter.com/5M99a9LLQi — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) March 10, 2020

Ubiquiti releases UniFi Protect 1.13.2 & 1.14.8, includes new motion features

UniFi Protect, from Ubiquiti Networks has been updated in the last few days to version 1.13.2 on the UniFi CloudKey Gen2 Plus and to version 1.14.8 on the UniFi Dream Machine Pro, both versions are identical but due to UniFi OS reasons, the Protect version is different on the UDM-Pro. Ubiquiti has added a few new features, bug fixes and changes with the new update. We’ll provide a link to […]