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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Why Fat Cat Tuesday is “pub economics” – and when will your pay overtake the average UK worker?

January 5, 2016

Britain’s top bosses have already earned the equivalent of how much the average worker takes home in their entire yearly pay packet, according to new research. The chief executives of the FTSE 100 companies will have earned the average annual salary of £27,645 by the end of Tuesday, the second working day of 2016. However, [...]
Meet the Faraday Future concept car FFZERO1, a new rival to Tesla’s electric vehicles people are calling the batmobile

January 5, 2016

A new concept electric vehicle has been unveiled by secretive US company Faraday Future, which claims it will be as revolutionary as the iPhone The FFZERO1 concept car made its debut at Las Vegas technology show CES, showing off a slick sports car style design with ambitions of giving electric vehicle king Tesla a run for its [...]
Downton Abbey, Call the Midwife and Eastenders: Here’s how much timeshifted Christmas TV we watched on catch-up services

January 4, 2016

It may have been the classic Queen’s speech which got us tuning in on Christmas day, but it was Downtown Abbey and Call the Midwife which we settled down to watch on catch-up in the days afterwards, as we continued to stuff ourselves with festive food. Britain’s on-demand TV habits meant that both the popular dramas, on ITV [...]
Mark Zuckerberg, artificial intelligence and Iron Man’s Jarvis: How close are we really to having artificial robot butlers?

January 4, 2016

It’s great to hear that Mark Zuckerberg is planning to build his own personal artificial intelligence service for helping him around the home and the office. It sounds wonderful doesn’t it? Perfectly paradoxical in the sense that it simultaneously feels like both science fiction and something that’s already happening in our homes today. In truth, [...]
Junior doctors strike dates: Action will take place 12 January, 26 January and 10 February after talks with government and health minister Jeremy Hunt fail

January 4, 2016

Thousands of junior doctors will go on strike next week after last ditch talks with the government to agree new contracts failed to come to a resolution. Doctors will go on strike for 24 hours on 12 January while a second 48 hour strike is scheduled for 26 January. Only emergency care will be offered [...]
Tech share prices are tumbling: Netflix, Tesla, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Apple and more stock fall amid China rout

January 4, 2016

Tech stocks have not escaped the market rout that has seen billions wiped of global markets on the first major day of trading in 2016. Tesla and Netflix both fell by more than seven per cent, with a downgrade for the movie streaming service by Baird, while the electric car company yesterday delivered sales figures at [...]
CES 2016: General Motors is investing $500m in Uber rival Lyft and is making driverless car plans

January 4, 2016

The US carmaker General Motors has revealed it is investing $500m (£339m) in Lyft, a cab-hailing app which rivals Uber, with plans to work on the development of driverless cars together. That investment also comes with a seat on the board. “We see the future of personal mobility as connected, seamless and autonomous. With GM and Lyft working [...]
Armed police bring Farringdon Road to standstill

January 4, 2016

Farringdon Road was brought to a standstill after an operation by armed police at around lunch time today. Several police vehicles were involved in stopping a vehicle on the road in east London and three men have been arrested in the pre-planned operation. The incident is not terror related, the Metropolitan Police have said. The road, [...]
Travel disruption and delays? Why letting your staff find a better commute is better for business

January 4, 2016

Returning back to work on the first day post-Christmas will have been a return to travel disruption and delays for many commuters. But, even minor morning train delays can have a detrimental impact on the rest of the working day. The knock-on effect of train punctuality (or lack of it) is apparent in recently published research from the Open Data Institute and [...]
Kwik Fit wants you to lose the spare tyre by lifting tyres

January 4, 2016

If you need a little help shifting that post-Christmas paunch, where do you go? Err, a tyre fitters. Of course. Where better to shift that spare tyre than somewhere already familiar with, well, shifting spare tyres. That's what you can do at Kwik Fit's new fitness class where lifting, flipping and throwing tyres will help you [...]

Drinking in stands hailed as success as more clubs join WSL pilot scheme

Judge awards McLaren F1 team over $12m in Alex Palou trial

This Soho pub is putting on a ‘problematic’ show about a drunkard

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