Author: Chris Price
Chris has been a journalist since the 1990s. In addition to editing TechDigest.tv and ShinyShiny.tv, he also regularly contributes tech/business articles to The Daily Telegraph and Tech Radar. A passionate swimmer, Chris has his own swimming blog and is a qualified lifeguard. He can be contacted at [email protected]
UK car production falls by nearly 10% in August, reports SMMT
UK car production declines by -9.7% to 45,052 units in August, following six months of growth. Production for home market falls -25.2%, as exports also decline by -5.5%. Electrified vehicles represent nearly two in five of all cars produced in August, equivalent to 16,511 units. UK car production fell -9.7% in August, following six consecutive…
Why Now is The Best Time to Switch to eSIM
Last year, Apple changed the iPhone 14 by removing the SIM card tray to save space. This means that traditional SIM cards connecting your phone to cellular networks are slowly disappearing from Apple phones.iPhone 14 Other smartphone makers, like Samsung and Google, follow Apple's lead. So, in the future, you can expect many phones to…
Fitbit Charge 6 unveiled, Epic Games cuts workforce
Fitbit Charge 6 is the latest addition in the Google wearables division bringing improved health tracking and even deeper integration with Google apps like YouTube Music, Google Pay and Google Maps. Charge 6 features a 1.04-inch color AMOLED display with Always-On Display (AOD) functionality. The tracker features an aluminum, glass and resin build with a…
One in 10 Amazon customers offered ‘bribes’ for positive reviews, Which? finds
One in 10 Amazon shoppers could have been offered an incentive in exchange for a five-star review of one of its products in the last year, according to Which? research. The consumer association is concerned that unscrupulous sellers are cheating their way to the top of the Amazon rankings by bombarding customers with Amazon gift…
Police switching off bodycams, Meta Quest 3 to launch October 10th
Police officers are switching off their body-worn cameras when force is used, as well as deleting footage and sharing videos on WhatsApp. A BBC investigation has uncovered more than 150 reports of camera misuse by forces in England and Wales - described as "shocking" by a leading officer. In one case, siblings faced a two-year…
Kia introduces Plug&Charge to UK with EV9
Kia is set to introduce Plug&Charge experience in Europe The charging technology is to be launched with the EV9 before being rolled out to the rest of Kia’s future EVs Kia is working with partners including Hubject, DCS, and network partners such as IONITY, Aral/BP, and others to bring seamless charging to its customers Kia…
Canterbury is worst UK city for broadband speeds, claims report
Canterbury Cathedral. Historic Canterbury has won the wooden spoon for the city with the most sluggish internet in the first annual Broadband Genie Speed Index Analysis of more than 250,000 speed tests saw the quiet Highlands village of Halkirk named the slowest part of the UK, recording an average speed of…
Nissan-backed evolvAD autonomous driving project gets underway
evolvAD, the UK’s newest autonomous driving research project backed by Nissan and funded by the UK Government, has officially got underway. To enhance the UK’s autonomous drive capability and technically support the supply chain’s readiness for mass adoption, evolvAD will put Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV) through their paces on a variety of urban…
Numbers saying they will ‘never buy an EV’ nearly doubled, claims Autotrader
The number of people claiming they’ll never buy an EV has nearly doubled, on the back of the government’s U-turn last week which will delay the ban on the sale of new petrol and diesel cars to 2035. According to a recent survey by Auto Trader, 37% of car buyers say they’re unlikely to ever…
Disinformation most active on X claims EU, iPhone 15 Pro overheating reports
X, formerly Twitter, has the biggest proportion of disinformation of six big social networks, a European Commission study has suggested. It examined over 6,000 unique social media posts across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X, and YouTube. The study analysed content in three countries deemed particularly at risk to disinformation - Spain, Poland and Slovakia. The…
