Technology

Ford reveals new 2023 Mustang, still with V8 and manual box

Ford has today revealed the all new seventh generation Ford Mustang, which will come to the UK in 2023. Ford unveiled the car at an outdoor event in Detroit today and will go on sale in the UK and other territories in 2023. However, this could be the last model in its entire 58 year history, with the push the electrification stronger than ever. The new model is essentially a […]

Dark Sky is reminding users that it’s app will shutdown on 1st January

Apple acquired Dark Sky over two years ago and the wind down process of it being merged into the Apple Weather app has been a relatively slow one. Apple has basically finished the process this year with the release of iOS 16, macOS 13 and iPadOS 16. Last year Apple majorly overhauled the Weather app last year with iOS 15 and now it seems the process is now finished. Shortly after […]

DigitalOcean outage in the UK caused UISP Cloud controllers to be intermittent

Earlier today, cloud hosting provider DigitalOcean experienced a large scale outage in its London UK LON1 region, affecting services hosted there. Ubiquiti’s cloud offering of UISP is hosted in DigitalOcean and from 16:10-18:35 BST it was experiencing poor connectivity, latency issues and packet loss. UISP users would have experienced lack of access to servers and if e-mail alerts were set up, countess reconnection events as devices struggled to connect to […]

Netatmo debuts new white option for the Smart Outdoor Camera with Siren

A few weeks ago, Netatmo launched a new white version of its Smart Outdoor Camera with Siren device, to make it blend better in more places. Netatmo has had this device on sale for a little while and works natively with a lot of smart home systems, including Amazon Alexa, Hey Google, HomeKit and crucially, HomeKit Secure Video. Netatmo is offering the camera is a new white finish and its […]

Volkswagen Golf R 20 Years sets new benchmark at the Nürburgring

Late last month, Volkswagen took the new Golf R 20 Years around the iconic Nürburgring racetrack in Germany. The new car was announced back in June of this year and is a special edition to celebrate 20 years of the R-badged cars. The Golf R 20 Years gets more power and a new drivetrain calibration, to allow it to be much more efficient on tracks. All of these improvements helped […]

Apple Stores in the UK will close on Monday 19th September for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II

Apple Stores in the UK will be closed nationwide on Monday 19th September for the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II. Apple informed UK staff yesterday about the closure and the day is a national bank holiday. King Charles III has announced that the day is to be a bank holiday for the whole country and it is up to the individual businesses if they want to close their doors on […]

The iPhone 5 was announced ten years ago today

Ten years ago today, Apple revealed the iPhone 5 to the world. Back on the 12th September 2012, Phil Schiller was responsible for announcing the new hardware at Apple’s iconic keynotes, following the death of Steve Jobs the year before. The iPhone 5 was significant, because this marked the first time the iPhone had changed in screen size since the original iPhone in 2007, just five years prior. The iPhone […]

Triumph is telling its customers not to update to iOS 16 because their app isn’t ready for it yet

Triumph bikes, a British motorcycle manufacturer is asking its customers to not update iPhones to iOS 16, due to incompatibilities between its app and the latest operating system from Apple. Triumph has an app for connecting a smartphone to its motorcycle to customise the tachometer/ speedometer on the bike. iOS 16 was released to the public today and is available for the iPhone 8 and newer. The irony of this […]

Apple releases iOS 16 for iPhone‌ 8 and later

Apple has today released iOS 16 for iPhone‌ 8 and later. This year, Apple has dropped support for the iPhone‌ 6s, ‌iPhone‌ 7, and the 1st generation Phone SE. iPadOS 16 hasn’t been released today, as it is delayed until October. Apple is working on Stage Manager and according to reports, it isn’t working correctly, hence the delay. Due to high demand for the new operating system, initial downloads could […]

Apple releases iOS 15.7 and iPadOS 15.7, both address security issues

As well as releasing iOS 16 today, Apple has also released a security update for iOS 15 and iPadOS 15, with the release of iOS 15.7 and iPadOS 15.7. This is available for those customers not able to upgrade to iOS 16, whether the phone doesn’t support it like the iPhone 7 or people are holding off for various reasons. iPadOS 15.7 is available now and will be worth upgrading […]