By: Lynsey Barber

I'm City A.M.'s award-winning technology editor, covering everything from happenings at Apple and Google to the latest London startup. In particular fintech, blockchain, artifical intelligence, driverless cars, virtual reality and the sharing economy get me out of bed in the morning. I'm always trying to illustrate stories with pictures of dogs. Sometimes with some success. I was named technology journalist of the year at the UK Tech Awards.

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Amazon hits new high on this crazy big $1,000 price target from Wall Street

May 10, 2016

Amazon shares have touched an all-time high after getting a serious upgrade from one Wall Street analyst. Bernstein has upped its price target for the stock to $1,000 (£694) from $770, sending stock up nearly three per cent to $699 per share. "[W]e are bullish in the short, medium, and long term and think we may see margins [...]
“We’d do it all again” say Boaty McBoatface competition creators

May 10, 2016

The creators of the competition which ended up producing the name Boaty McBoatface for a billion pound science research ship have no regrets and said they would do it all over again, despite the whole thing descending into farce. Appearing in front of MPs on the science and technology committee today, the National Environmental Research Council (NERC) bosses [...]
Amazon just launched its own version of YouTube

May 10, 2016

Amazon has upped the ante again when it comes to video with a new service which sounds a lot like YouTube. Users will be able to upload their own content through Amazon Video Direct (AVD) and it will be available to the millions of members of its Prime Video streaming service alongside movies and original TV shows, such [...]
Electric car owners can sell electricity back to the grid in Nissan trial

May 10, 2016

Electric vehicle owners could soon make money from selling electricity back to the grid. Nissan, which builds some of its electric cars in its Sunderland factory, has launched a new trial in the UK which it claims could revolutionise energy supply. Owners of the Nissan Leaf will be able to charge their cars during low demand times and then [...]
UK security services fail in legal bid to get hacker Lauri Love to hand over passwords for encrypted device via “back door”

May 10, 2016

The UK's security services have failed in their bid to force a hacker to hand over passwords which would give them access to encrypted information held on his computer, in what's been called a landmark case. A judge has ruled today against the National Crime Agency (NCA), which was seeking the passwords as part of a civil case brought by [...]
This tiny London garage sold for more than the price of the average house

May 10, 2016

A tiny garage in west London is the latest sign of the ridiculous scramble for prime property locations in the capital, after being bought up for more than the price of the average home in the UK. The 18ft by 35ft spot in Hammersmith and Fulham smashed the already rather steep £250,00 guide price, the Guardian reports. It went for [...]
Facebook denies bias against this type of politics

May 10, 2016

Ever felt like Facebook is a little bit lefty? Well, now it's defended itself against claims that it does favour one side of the political spectrum over the other by manipulating what appears on the site. Staff at the social network suppressed coverage of conservative politics in the US, according to a report, choosing not to include them in its [...]
Watch: How Hyperloop’s crazy next generation maglev tech will actually work

May 10, 2016

One of the firms working on Hyperloop has revealed how the technology will work to transport people at hundreds of miles an hour in levitating pods. It uses a passive magnetic levitation, a step forward from the maglev technology used by high speed trains such as Japan's bullet train, to carry passengers at up to 760 mph [...]
Nokia misses forecast, ups saving target

May 10, 2016

Nokia missed analysts targets and has upped its cost saving targets in a difficult mobile infrastructure market. The figures Sales fell nine per cent in the first quarter of the year to €5.6bn (£4.4bn), missing analysts expectation of around €5.76bn. In the Finnish firm's largest market, the US, sales fell 17 per cent , while in the [...]
UK set for take off in “drones for business” industry worth billions

May 9, 2016

The market for drones in business – from transporting goods to servicing ships and filming TV shows – could be worth $127.3bn (£88bn) and the UK is destined to play a major part in that, new research reveals. Infrastructure, agriculture and transport are the areas where drone technology will have the greatest application, in terms of both labour and services, [...]

Copilot coaching: Can AI train me to run the London Marathon better?

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