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Peugeot 208 wins the European Car of the Year award for 2020

The brand new Peugeot 208, which also shares its platform with the latest Vauxhall Corsa has won the award for European Car of the Year today beating the Porsche Taycan, Ford Puma (which won What Car? Car of the Year back in January) and the Tesla Model 3. Whether or not a car wins or not is based on how many points it has been given, the Tesla Model 3 […]

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, Volkswagen announced that it will be shutting down its coal power plants at Wolfsburg soon, Instagram responded to questions about an iPad app, saying: “we only have so many people” and Tesla updated the Model S with more range, as well as a few extra […]

Rockstar introduces F1 racing to GTA Online

This week, Rockstar has introduced another new mini game into GTA Online, this time with something called Open Wheel Races’ which is essentially F1 car racing. New cars have also been added to GTA Online as part of the new update, the Ocelot R88 and Progen PR4. Open Wheel Races is available now on GTA Online Source: Rockstar

Geneva Motor Show 2020 has been cancelled due to the coronavirus

The coronavirus is hitting the tech world hard and the car world hard now too, earlier in February Mobile World Congress was cancelled due to fears over the coronavirus and now the Geneva Motor Show for this year has now been cancelled too, the annual car show in Switzerland was supposed to take place next month between the 5th and 15th March. Many car manufacturers use the event to debut […]

Apple launches new Anime style ad in Japan for “Behind the Mac”

Apple has launched a new advert in Japan titled “Behind the Mac” which isn’t a new campaign Apple has been doing, but the ad for Japan is anime themed and shows such characters from “The Wonderland,” “Yama No Susume” and others. What’s also interesting is that on the back of the laptops, the Apple logo is never perfect, it’s always a weird shape but never the Apple logo itself. Ad […]

Google Earth now works on other browsers, not just Chrome

A few years ago, Google stopped supporting the desktop version of Google Earth and instead just had a web based version of Google Earth which had a lot of features, but not everything. It also said at that time that support would not just be for Chrome, but for other browsers too. As of this week, Google Earth web version now works on Firefox, Microsoft Edge and Opera. Google has […]

First Vodafone 5G site in Australia to be live in a few weeks

Vodafone Australia is planning on switching on its first 5G mast “within weeks,” despite a drop in customer base and drop in revenue. Vodafone Australia has also taken the decision to move from Huawei to Nokia for all the equipment for the new 5G rollout, following information from the US regarding Huawei. The first 5G site for Vodafone will be in Parramatta and it has 650 new mast sites in […]

Volkswagen unveils brand new Golf GTI – more power and more tech

Last night, ahead of the Geneva Motor Show next month, Volkswagen unveiled the brand new Golf GTI, GTD and GTE all based on the brand new Golf 8 which only recently went on sale, earlier this month. As we reported on Monday, Volkswagen will still be showing off the new cars at Geneva in March, but the new models were unveiled yesterday. For this article, we’ll be focusing on the […]

Apple has said its first retail store in India will open next year

Yesterday, Apple held its annual shareholders meeting at Apple Park and one of the announcements from Tim Cook was that Apple will be open its first retail store in India next year, in 2021. Apple has also said that by the end of 2020, it will start selling products on its online retail store in India because at the moment, Apple doesn’t really sell to the consumer directly, instead it […]

Porsche is planning on opening a pop up store in Europe soon

Porsche has tried the concept of a pop up store before in Taiwan, within the Xinyi district and must have helped to boost sales as the company is ready to try it in its home town of Stuttgart, marking the first pop up store Porsche is opening in Europe. Porsche also has other pop up stores in Canada, Brazil and the one is Taiwan  we mentioned. “The sales pop-ups are […]