Technology

Mercedes reveals pricing for new T-Class MPV

This week, Mercedes has revealed the pricing for the new T-Class, which is one of those van/MPV type vehicles, many of which seem to be launching. The T-Class will be coming to the UK, but Mercedes yet revealed the pricing for this region, instead the company has revealed the price in its home country of Germany. The new T-Class will be €29,314 which is the equivalent to around £24,000 in […]

UK Government is investing £300k to help detect loud and illegal exhausts

The UK Government is planning on investing around £300,000 in new technology to help it crack down on any illegally modified exhausts, generally meaning they’ll be too loud. This new investment comes from the Department for Transport (DfT) and will involve an initial test first. The DfT will choose four areas in England Wales to test out the noise detection tech. The new devices can automatically work out whether a […]

YouTube Go will be discontinued in August

YouTube announced YouTube Go back in 2017, when it was released to India and Indonesia as a light weight version of the main desktop and mobile app versions. It was designed to run better on devices with less processing power, such as entry level laptops and smartphones. It also had an easy way to control how much data would be used, useful for expensive plans or slow carrier networks. In […]

Elon Musk says that the Apple 30% tax on the App Store is “definitely not ok”

Elon Musk has come out this week on Twitter and said that the 30% tax Apple enforces on the App Store is “definitely not ok.” This was in reply to an article from Slashdot talking about how PayPal had helped make sure an antitrust complaint against Apple was pushed forward. Apple has long charged companies an extra 30% on any app payments customers make and on any in app purchase […]

Ubiquiti announces stacking for multiple UNVR devices

Today, during its latest ‘Ubiquiti Insider’ video, Ubiquiti revealed that very soon UNVR stacking is coming soon for the UniFi Protect UNVR. Currently, if you need more than around 50 cameras on one deployment using UniFi Protect, you would either need to use a different brand of cameras or get two or more UNVR units. The big downside to this is having to change interfaces every time you need to […]

Apple Music is now available on Roku devices

Starting today, Apple Music will be available to users who have Roku devices, including built-in Roku TVs from TCL and Hisense. The support will be rolling out to devices worldwide, later today Roku has said.  Subscribers will have access to their existing music libraries as well as the playlists, radio stations and 90 million songs. The app will be available on the Channel Store. Apple Music, like the Apple TV app […]

Ineos reveals specifications and the pricing for the new Grenadier 4×4

This week, Ineos finally revealed some more information about the upcoming s Grenadier 4×4 which will go on sale in the UK later next month on 18th May. The car will be priced from £49,000 and will be available in a wide range of options with both passenger and commercial versions. For the base price of £49,000 the Ineos will be available as a more utilitarian version with only two […]

Ubiquiti ES-8-150W vs US-8-150W

Ubiquiti launched the US-8-150W in around 2016 and was the first eight port UniFi switch available at the time. It has very flexible PoE options, supporting 802.3af/at as well as 24v passive PoE. The addition of 24v passive was especially important at the time, as Ubiquiti had multiple UniFi AP models on sale that were powered by different types of PoE. At that time, Ubiquiti had the UniFi AC Pro […]

Toyota announces GR Supra with manual gearbox

Today, Toyota has announced the much requested manual version of the GR Supra which will have a six speed manual gearbox, coming three years after the Supra was originally launched. The new six speed manual has been engineered by Toyota specially for the 335bhp 3.0-litre straight-six engine. This also means that the manual box is not available for the entry level 254bhp 2.0-litre flat four version of the Supra. However, […]

Nonfiction film about the life of Michael J. Fox in production for Apple TV+

This week it has been reported that there is a nonfiction feature film currently in production, which will document the life of actor Michael J. Fox. The film is yet to be titled, but Apple Original Films has obtained the rights to the film and it will be released on Apple TV+. Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim is producing and directing the film and it’ll focus on Michael’s story of his time […]