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Weekends with A&T Tech – Best stories of the week

Another week has gone by and its time, once again to go over the best stories we covered here on A&T Tech. Disney is raising prices for Disney+ Disney announced that prices will be increased from March next year by a few pounds/dollars per month. The justification is that the content library is being doubled in the next few years. Read more Apple announces AirPods Max Apple’s new over ear headphones […]

Apple is launching Fitness+ on Monday

Apple announced earlier in the week that Apple Fitness+ will be launching next week on Monday 14th December. The new service was announced back in September along side Apple One, the new bundle service, iPad 8th gen, new Apple Watches and iPad Air. Apple Fitness+ is included in the Premium plan of Apple One which is £29.95 per month / $29.95 or on its own for £9.99/$9.99 per month. Apple […]

Jaguar launches new Heritage edition F-Type

This week, Jaguar announced a new special edition of the F-Type sports car to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the E-Type, which was launched back in 1961 and the new car will launch in 2021 in an exclusive Sherwood Green paint, a colour which was last used in the 1960s on the E-Type. When the new edition does launch, it’ll be available worldwide, but not in China. It will be […]

Disney is raising prices for Disney+

This week, Disney announced that prices for Disney+ are being increased marginally, starting from March 2021. Here in the UK the prices per month will be £7.99, an increase from £5.99, in the US it’s going up from $6.99 to $7.99 and in the rest ofEurope, up from €6.99 to €8.99. In the US, Disney also offers Disney+, Hulu and ESPN Bundled in to one fee, this is now up […]

Cambium Networks settles a lawsuit with Ubiquiti Inc for selling hacking firmware

A number of years ago, Cambium Networks starting selling a version of its ePMP PtMP platform called Elevate which would allow users to connect other third party wireless equipment to it in order to provide better claimed performance, one of the main companies was Ubiquiti airMAX M radios, a company which offers very similar PtMP solutions. To get the system to work, Cambium would sell you an licence per airMAX […]

Government launches new green numberplate for EVs

Starting this week, the new number plates for EVs only, are being rolled out and they have green badges to the left, where the usual country flag goes. The plates will make electric vehicles to be much easier to recognise, but they are only optional at this stage, rather than mandatory. Nissan and Yougov conducted some research which suggested that 32% of people that were surveyed would be more likely […]

Honda has stopped production at its Swindon factory due to parts shortage

Yesterday, Honda announced that production at its UK based plant in Swindon has stopped due to a shortage of parts, or more specifically the parts can’t get here due to transport issues at the ports. The “transport-related parts delay” refers to congestion at ports in the UK at Felixstowe, Southampton and London Gateway and it isn’t just affecting car production, its everything from lockdown backlog to Christmas gifts. Like how […]

New Amazon Fire TV interface rolling out

Amazon today has started to roll out the new redesigned interface for Fire TV which is coming to the third generation Fire TV Stick and TV Stick Lite first and then later on down the line, other Fire TV devices will get the update. The main dashboard has been redesigned with a brand new look and user profiles system wide have also been added, similar to Apple TV. Up to […]

Facebook outage today affected Instagram DMs and Messenger

Facebook has had some issues today relating to DMs on Messenger and Instagram, which caused message to send to fail and as of writing, everything is back up and running but it was down from 09:30AM BST / 04:30AM ET and came back up this afternoon. Facebook spoke to The Verge today and said: “Earlier today, some people have experienced trouble sending or receiving messages on Messenger, Instagram or Workplace Chat. The […]

Nintendo releases version 11.0.0 for Switch and Switch Lite with lots of new features

Nintendo recently released a new system update for the Switch and Switch Lite, bumping it up to version 11.0 and unlike the last handful of updates, Nintendo has made a lot of improvements and added new features. Save Data Cloud has been improved to better supports users with multiple switch units, as the cloud data backed up the cloud will now automatically download on other consoles. Nintendo says that this […]