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 all our furniture still points towards the TV

December 17, 2015

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London cab drivers will protest against Uber and its regulation by Transport for London today

December 17, 2015

Cabbies are staging a fresh protest against Uber and Transport for London (TfL) in the capital today over the way the taxi industry is regulated. This time, it's minicab drivers, who want TfL to suspend the recently launched UberPool ride-sharing service, claiming that by giving it the go ahead, TfL is "riding rough shod over the regulatory review process by pre-empting [...]
Hitting the brakes? Driverless cars must have a driver, says California DMV, putting bump in road for Google, Apple, Ford

December 17, 2015

The development of self-driving cars has hit a bump in the road, after US authorities said they won't be allowed to hit the roads without a driver present. Regulators in California, where the majority of research and testing of autonomous vehicles is centred, said there needs to be a driver present in case the technology fails. Google is the best known [...]
Entertainment One share price rises on Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks partnership Amblin Partners

December 17, 2015

Peppa Pig maker Entertainment One (EOne) and Steven Spielberg's film company Dreamworks have teamed up to form a new film company called Amblin Partners. Dreamworks, the company behind Shrek and the upcoming adaption of Roald Dahl's the BFG, has alos got backing for the new venture from entertainment companies Participant Media and Reliance Entertainment. EOne will be the global distributor of the film and TV [...]
Heathrow chairman Sir Nigel Rudd poised for departure in 2016 amid airport expansion turbulence

December 17, 2015

Sir Nigel Rudd, the chairman of Heathrow, has announced he will depart the UK's biggest airport next September, after a decision on the thorny issue of airport expansion is expected to be made by the government. A replacement has not yet been named, but "preparations are underway". "I'm really proud to have played a role [...]
Hipster pee-repelling walls come to Hackney as council use anti-urine paint in Shoreditch and Dalston over Christmas

December 16, 2015

Hipsters painting the town red will be in for a surprise if they try and relieve themselves anywhere other than a bathroom as Hackney introduces pee-repelling paint to the walls of Shoreditch and Dalston. The anti-pee paint became famous across the world when the city of San Francisco started using it. Now Hackney council are doing [...]
A third of London trains fail to run on time

December 16, 2015

More than a third of trains into London during the morning rush hour fail to run on time, while nearly half of those arriving between 8.30am and 9am are delayed. However, trains running in nine other cities across the country suffer more delays than those in the capital, new data reveals, with Birmingham, Manchester and [...]
Tim Peake’s launch mission to the ISS is the start of a new era for the UK space industry as UK’s National Space Policy is announced

December 16, 2015

All eyes have been on a desert in Kazakhstan this week. Baikonur Cosmodrome has seen the launch of the first human spaceflight, Sputnik and the first orbiting satellite. This week saw another first for this historic site, and a great leap forward for the UK space industry. Tim Peake has made his ascent to the International Space Station becoming the first [...]
Conservative MPs live longer (unless you’re leader) but all politicians live longer than the rest of us

December 16, 2015

How tough is the rough and tumble of political life? Not that bad, really. It turns out the long hours, highly demanding work load and high-vis jacket wearing doesn't take as much of a toll as you might think. MPs are likely to live longer than the rest of us, eking out an extra four years on [...]
The UK’s busiest stations: Waterloo welcomes largest number of passengers while Stratford rockets and London Bridge declines

December 16, 2015

If you feel like Waterloo station is a little busy these days, you'd be right. Once again, it has been crowned the country's busiest station, with an astonishing 99m passengers passing though its doors over the past year, new figures reveal. Stations across the countries are becoming busier than ever, and overall passenger numbers grew by 4.5 per [...]

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