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Apple announces new HomePod mini and it’s only £99

Today at its event, called ‘Hi, Speed’ Apple unveiled the new HomePod mini a really quite small smart speaker with integrated Siri. The current full size HomePod is £279 and the new HomePod mini is $99 in the US and £99 in the UK. The HomePod mini, as the name suggests is quite a bit smaller than the full size HomePod at just 3.3-inches tall whereas the larger one is […]

Apple will be offering free AirPods in India with an iPhone 11 purchase

Apple has only just recently starting selling in India directly on its own online store last month and according to MacRumors Apple will be offering a free pair of AirPods with the purchase of an iPhone 11 in India. The offer has not yet been fully outlined by Apple but will be starting from 17th October and while not mentioned it is bound to include the iPhone 11 Pro too. This deal […]

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 […]

Quick Review: Top Gear Series 29 Episode 2

The second episode of Top Gear Series 29 has just finished. This is the second episode in this series and once again the team are back outside on the airfield at Dunsfold, with socially distanced guests in their own cars with a drive in cinema type feel. In the episode last week, there was a new car that was reviewed and the Stig also took it for a lap round […]

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. In the news this week, Apple announces an event for next week, likely to see the iPhone 12, Amazon announces a new all electric delivery van, Ford launches the ‘Fiesta ST Edition’, Apple is rumoured to launch the ‘HomePod’ mini for under $100 and Google has recently updated the […]

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 […]

Top Gear Series 29 Episode 2 is back this Sunday

Top Gear Series 29 is well underway, last weekend saw the trio testing new company cars around Paddy’s home town of Bolton, you can read our review here. This week sees Harris, McGuiness and Flintoff testing old supercars from the 80s and 90s, Harris in the Ferrari F40, Flintoff in the Jaguar XJ220 and McGuiness in the Lamborghini Diablo of which he crashes, something we found out earlier this year […]

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 […]