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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Here’s what London looks like to a driverless car – can you identify the famous locations and landmarks?

December 23, 2015

Driverless car technology relies on computers being able to see things. That's pretty hard to do, but now there's a new technology that uses deep machine learning to help them, and shows us just what a driverless car really might see while winding down the roads. Trees, roads, buildings and even pedestrians can be identified by [...]
Hoverboard Lucozade thief Omaree Lindsay who went viral from CCTV video released by police is spared jail

December 23, 2015

What's thought to be the first ever conviction for using a hoverboard illegally has been handed down to a thief who brazenly swiped a crate of Lucozade and escaped down the street on a self-propelled scooter, becoming internet famous in the process. Footage of the theft went viral after CCTV was released by the police to catch him. [...]
Beatles back catalogue confirmed for music streaming from midnight on Christmas Eve on Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, Amazon, Google

December 23, 2015

The back catalogue of hit songs from the Beatles such as Hey Jude will be available on music streaming service for the first time, giving a Christmas treat to music fans. The fab four's music will be available on Spotify, Apple Music, Google Play, Amazon Music, Deezer, Tidal, Groove and Rhapsody. On Spotify, both free and premium users will be able to [...]
Tweet controlled drones? Twitter just patented that (watch out Marcel Hirscher)

December 23, 2015

Drones raise enough questions as it is – where can they fly, who can fly them, how do you avoid accidents, to name just a few – but imagine if they were controlled simply with a tweet? Sounds a a little crazy, yes, but not too crazy for Twitter. The social network has filed a [...]
Six times London was awesome in 2015: From streets pathed in Rainbows to the Garden Bridge and floating houses on the Thames

December 23, 2015

1. Financial centre of the world London was the financial centre of the world in 2015. We would say that, naturally, but researchers made it official, as London knocked New York of the top spot. 2. Most powerful city in the world It's not just finance where the capital trumped the rest of the world. [...]
Silvertown Tunnel consultation opened by TfL as it seeks public feedback

December 22, 2015

Plans for the Silvertown Tunnel, a new river crossing in the east of the London, are being opened up to the public. Transport for London is seeking feedback from locals and other interested parties with a new consultation on the connection between east London's Royal Docks and Greenwich Peninsula. The £750m tunnel, which is expected [...]
Uber UK under threat in London with new “five-minute wait” regulations proposed by Transport for London after black cabbie fury

December 22, 2015

Uber users could be forced to wait five minutes for a ride – even if it was immediately available – if new rules proposed by Transport for London get the go ahead. In addition to a minimum wait time, detailed new regulations of taxis and private hire vehicles in the capital could also curb several [...]
John Lewis Partnership bonus scheme 2015: Three charts showing just how generous it is historically despite it being cut this year

December 22, 2015

The bonus pot for staff working at Waitrose and middle England's favourite department store John Lewis has shrunk by 22 per cent compared to 2013, its largest cut in at least five years. Some 93,800 partners will share a total payout of £156.2m, the equivalent of 11 per cent of each person’s annual salary, or an additional [...]
Skoda emissions scandal: Volkswagen says 1.2m Skodas fitted with emissions cheat software

December 22, 2015

More than a million Skoda vehicles are fitted with the software which was used by Volkswagen to cheat emissions tests, the troubled car company admitted today. Worldwide, 1.2m Skodas on the road are fitted with the software, Reuters reports. In total more than 11m VW cars across multiple car brands are affected by the issue. Earlier [...]
Monarch Airlines flights to Sharm el-Sheikh cancelled until 24 January 2016 following EasyJet and British Airways lead after Russian MetroJet crash in Egypt holiday resort

December 22, 2015

Monarch is the latest airline to cancel flights to Sharm el-Sheikh for the rest of the year, following an earlier move by EasyJet and British Airways. It comes in the wake of the Russian MetroJet plane crash near the popular holiday resort. It was later found to be caused by a bomb, for which Islamic State (IS) has claimed [...]

UK state growing at faster pace than France after spending splurge and tax hikes

NFL tickets discounted to fill Wembley Stadium

Artificial writer admits AI industry workers helped shape OpenAI film

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