Technology

UK Government doubles funding for new EV infrastructure

Here in the UK electric cars haven’t had the instant growth of new take ups that Norway has had or that the US has had with the Tesla Model 3, but the UK government is planning on doubling the funding for new electric charging infrastructure, the Department for Transport (DfT) will be focusing on new residential chargers on the side of streets as most places in shared housing or flats […]

Google is now supporting new Chromebooks for 8 years

Google has said this week that it is now extending the support for any new Chromebooks purchased in 2020 for the Chrome Education Upgrade program. The Chrome OS Automatic Update program ensures devices are kept up to date with automatic updates. When Google first introduced the automatic updates program, devices were only for three years after purchase but since then, it has slowly been increased to the now eight year […]

YouTube TV is now available on the PS4

In the United States, YouTube TV is a pretty big deal now and it is making its way to more and more devices and PlayStation 4 owners can now get access to it. But at the same time, PlayStation Vue has now been cancelled, Sony’s own live TV service had most of the same features which YouTube TV does. YouTube TV is $50 a month and has a wide offering […]

Disney+ will be launching in the UK a bit earlier than originally planned

Disney+ has been available in the US for a few months now and here in the UK we are due to get the new streaming service at the end of March, on the 31st but today Disney has announced that the release date has been bought forward by a week to the 24th March. Pricing for the UK and European market has also been released, Disney+ is £5.99 / €6.99 […]

Ubiquiti’s LTU range of custom silicon wireless products is now available

Ubiquiti Inc is most known for its UniFi line of enterprise access points, switches, firewalls and IP cameras but what got the company started in the early days was the airMAX line of point-to-point and point-to-multipoint wireless radios. These are used for building to building situations as well as rural broadband in emerging markets and parts of the United States and New Zealand where the land is so stretched out […]

Ford Galaxy and S-Max MPVs to go hybrid next year

Over in the US, Ford has famously stopped producing any regular passenger cars which means the Focus, Fiesta and any other smaller cars have been dropped. But here in the UK and the rest of Europe, we have favoured estate cars, small hatches and back in the 90s, MPVs were all the rage. Lately, people carriers or MPVs have dropped in a bit in popularity in favour of more trendy […]

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, What Car? Magazine had their annual awards for the car industry and Ford won ‘Car of the Year’ this year with the brand new Ford Puma, Bose announced that it is closing retail stores in US, Europe and other areas, Facebook is rolling out […]

Bose is closing down all of its retail stores in Europe and the US

In a report from The Verge this week, we have learned that Bose, premium audio brand is planning on closing all of its retails store locations in Europe, UK all of the US, Japan and Australia. These four areas amount to a total of 119 stores which are to be closed down. Bose stores in China, UAE, India, South Korea and Southeast Asia will remain open – totalling to 130 stores. Why […]

Fortnite on iOS now supports 120FPS gameplay

This week, Epic Games released a significant update for Fortnite, the hugely popular multiplayer game which is on iOS, Android, Xbox and every platform you can think of. The newest update, amongst other updates now supports 120 frames per second on the latest generation of iPad Pro, which is the 2018 model. Fortnite for iOS is now on version 11.40 and this now includes better support for controllers as well […]

Apple will be releasing ‘The Banker’ film after all

In November last year, Apple released a trailer for and upcoming film ‘The Banker’ which was supposed to be released on Apple TV+ this month after its debut in cinemas in the US in December. It would have been shown in cinemas in order to be eligible for nomination for awards. But later that month, the film didn’t go ahead and the theatrical release was delayed too. At the time, […]