Technology

Apple posts trailer for new Apple TV+ unscripted show, ‘Long Way Up’ – starring Ewan McGregor

Yesterday, Apple has shared the first trailer for its new show which is coming soon, called ‘Long Way Up’ – an unscripted travel show starring Ewan McGregor Star Wars and Charley Boorman, where the pair drive 13,000 miles from Ushuaia in South America to Los Angeles in North America. Can you believe it on Apple TV #LongWayUp premieres September 18 on Apple TV+ @AppleTV pic.twitter.com/oRyYAt0y4B — Charley Boorman (@charleyboorman) September […]

Have Spotify Premium? You could get a free Google Nest Mini

Spotify Premium users here in the UK are able to grab themselves a free Google Nest Mini speaker as of yesterday. A new partnership between Google and the streaming service allows premium users to get a Google Nest Mini free of charge (usually retailed at £49.99), and even the shipping is free! You can choose from four colours – Chalk, charcoal, coral or sky. Both existing and new premium users […]

Tesla’s can now detect and react to speed limit signs

Tesla’s have always been one of the most advanced cars on the market, in terms of electronics and on board assistance system and now the company is pushing further ahead with recent enhancements to the way Autopilot detects signs. Last week, Tesla starting releasing a new update which would allow any Tesla with Autopilot to detect and react to speed limit signs, using the onboard cameras. This is an improvement […]

LIFX introduces new ‘LIFX Clean’ range of WiFi light bulbs

A few days ago, LIFX introduced a new line of their WiFi smart light bulbs which can emit germicidal antibacterial light to disinfect the area around the bulb and the surfaces too. LIFX Clean has passed the safety testing it needs to and according to the company, will help get rid of any harmful bacteria. The new LIFX Clean bulbs come in the original A19 and A60 bulbs and work […]

Ubiquiti launches the Professional Wall Mount for the G3 Flex

Today Ubiquiti has launched a new mounting solution for the G3 Flex camera, it has been in the Early Access store for a number of months and has now been made generally available on Ubiquiti’s own store at store.ui.com for $12 in the US and a pack for 3 for $35. This new mount houses the G3 Flex in an all in one container and allows the camera to be mounted […]

Ubiquiti UniFi Protect cloud access is down, again

Earlier this week on Tuesday around 15:00 UK time, we reported that Ubiquiti had a global outage for UniFi Protect which affected remote access and due to how the mobile app works, local access too. The service came back up again around 12-13 hours later and the root cause was put down to “usually high load” and extra servers were deployed to cope with the demand. However at about 8:30am […]

Google is planning on adding Nest Hub units to hotel rooms

This week, Google announced that it is going to be partnering up with a selection of hotels in the US to bring the Nest Hub to hotel rooms to provide voice assisted information to guests. Guests will be able to ask it for more towels and other questions about the hotel. But more importantly, during the current pandemic and the need to touch things less, you’ll be able to control […]

Range Rover Evoque and Land Rover Discovery Sport gain new mild-hybrid diesel option

This week, Land Rover has updated the Range Rover Evoque and the Land Rover Discovery Sport with a new hybrid engine choice as well as improved infotainment to bring it up to date with the new Defender. The new engine is a 2.0-litre four cylinder diesel with a mild-hybrid add on, which is 48V. The new engine comes in two versions, the D165 with 161bhp and the D200 with 201bhp, […]

BMW to cut 400 jobs at Mini factory in Oxford

This week it has been reported by the BBC, that BMW is planning on axing around 400 jobs at the Mini factory in Oxford which currently produces the new Mini E all electric car. The employees in question are not employed directly by BMW however, out of the total 4000 people working at the Oxford factory, 950 are employed by the Gi Group, a third party agency and the cuts […]

Ubiquiti UniFi Protect cloud access came back up yesterday, was due to ‘unusually high load’

A few days ago, we reported that Ubiquiti’s UniFi Protect cloud servers were experiencing an outage, one which lasted about 12-13 hours on the 25th August up until the early hours of yesterday. As the recordings are not stored in the Cloud as with offerings from Nest and Ring, the recordings were not affected and this only affected the access to protect.ui.com and access to the mobile app, UniFi OS […]