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Amazon now has 150 million Prime members

In the past week, Apple released its earnings and had an amazing Q4 quarter, as did Tesla and now Amazon has some subscriber news regarding Prime, its subscription service which offers Prime Video, free one day delivery and much much more. Amazon Prime now has 150 million members, worldwide. Assuming all 150 million people pay the $119 yearly fee, that’s $30 billion a year, just from Prime. Back in 2018 Amazon […]

Elon Musk: ‘It won’t be long’ until the Model S can go 400 miles on one charge

During Tesla’s most recent earnings call, CEO Elon Musk revealed that the Model S could have a 400 mile range before long, when the Model S and Model X switch to using the new battery cells which are currently in use with the Model 3. “We’re rapidly approaching a 400-mile range for Model S. So, it won’t be long before Model S has a 400-mile range” Elon Musk – Tesla […]

Nintendo has sold over 52 million Switch consoles

Over the holiday quarter it seemed most companies did pretty well with sales, Apple had record sales of the iPhone 11 and revenue and profit was up too. Now Nintendo has revealed its sales figures for the most recent period. Nintendo sold 10.81 million Nintendo Switch units over the holidays which is now a total of 52.48 million in total, up to the end of last year. The company is […]

New 2020 Maxda MX5 has Apple CarPlay as standard

The latest version of the Mazda MX-5 for 2020 is launching soon and it now has Apple CarPlay and Android Auto integrated as standard across all the model versions. The model is fairly unchanged from the 2019 version, it now has sport-tuned suspension off the Grand Touring versions as standard, new colour options and also Apple CarPlay and Android Auto as standard. Inside the car is a 7-inch touchscreen, two […]

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, the iPad turned ten years old, Apple had an amazing quarter for Q4 and now has 1.4 billion active devices worldwide, Volkswagen could be fined £110 million by Canadian prosecutors, The Beastie Boys have a new documentary on Apple TV+ coming soon and the […]

AirPods Pro tips replacements are free if you have AppleCare+

For a while now, AppleCare+ has been available on AirPods and Beats headphones and it works the same way as your other devices. You pay a fee for a one or two year coverage plan and any faults and damages are covered for a reduced fee and sometimes for no charge. Today, MacRumors had some readers say that with the AirPods Pro and AppleCare+ the replacement tips can be had free of […]

Skoda launches new Monte Carlo editions of Kamiq and Scala

This week, Skoda has expanded the trim levels of both the Kamiq and the Scala with a new Monte Carlo spec option, this trim level has been available on the CitiGo city car in the past and is an option on the current Fabia. The addition of this spec is to celebrate Skoda’s recent win in the WRC at the Monte Carlo rally. What’s new? As with the Fabia, the […]

tvOS gets new underwater screensavers

Apple has recently added a whole new load of screensavers for the Apple TV, which has been found by uharveydent89 on Reddit this week and they include new underwater scenes including jelly fish in Alaska, and Dolphins in Costa Rica as well as many more. Apple TV screensavers automatically update so there is nothing to do to get the new ones, you can choose in settings however to let the Apple TV […]

Apple sold more smartphones last quarter than every other manufacturer

This week, Apple released its Q4 earnings and it is now safe to say it was a good quarter as Apple has now become the top selling smartphone manufacturer. According to Strategy Analytics, Apple has now overtaken Samsung to become the top selling smartphone manufacturer and now has a 18.9% hold of the total smartphone market. This quarter has been a good one, mostly thanks to the less expensive iPhone 11 […]

Microsoft launches Xbox bug bounty program

Most tech companies have a bug bounty program as a way to get vulnerabilities and security holes found and reported to Microsoft for them to fix. Most bugs reported have a reward for reporting it and Microsoft today is launching a bug bounty program for the Xbox platform with payouts from $500 to $20,000 depending on the severity. Microsoft has had a bug bounty program for bugs and vulnerabilities on […]