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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Is Google down? Searchers turn to Twitter to express shock after server outage

July 4, 2014

Google appeared to be down this morning, with many users experiencing a 500 error. It means a generic error suggesting a problem with the website's server and is shown to users when a more specific error can't be found. Twitter users turned to the social network to air their surprise and shock. It's extremely rare for [...]
Google restores Guardian links but Robert Peston blog remains “forgotten” due to commenter request

July 4, 2014

Google has restored links to Guardian articles after they were removed by the search engine under the EUs “right to be forgotten” ruling, Reuters reports. A link to a BBC blog post about former Merrill Lynch boss Stan O’Neal written by economics editor Robert Peston remains “forgotten” however due to a request from someone who [...]
Samsung drops plasma screens to leave LG all alone in the market

July 3, 2014

Samsung is ending production of its plasma screen TVs leaving LG as the only electronics company still manufacturing the sets which first went on sale to the public in 1997. Panasonic earlier this year stopped making plasma screens, and it’s the result of steady declines in demand, in part from competition from thinner and cheaper LCD [...]
Apple iCup technician wanted, no computer skills required

July 3, 2014

For anyone who has harboured a dream of working for Apple but doesn’t know their front-end from their back-end, the perfect job has just come up. The potential employee won't even need to know how to switch a computer on if they become Apple’s iCup technician. That’s because it gets about as technical as a coffee [...]
Google, the “right to be forgotten”, and the Streisand Effect: Here’s what you need to know

July 3, 2014

BBC economics editor Robert Peston was yesterday told by Google that a blog post he wrote seven years ago will no longer appear in search results in one of the first demonstrations of the “right to be forgotten” law in action. It’s just one high-profile example, but expect to hear many more as Google processes the [...]
Is this the most secure smartphone in the world?

July 2, 2014

The answer that question is: probably. The Blackphone has been designed first and foremost to protect the owner's privacy as data security becomes increasingly important to consumers amid NSA spying revelations and data hacking concerns. Priced at $629, the smartphone runs ProvatOS, an Android-based operating system and has features which optimises the phone's security. These include a [...]
First Direct makes high street debut

July 2, 2014

The bank known for eschewing branches is making its first foray into a physical presence on the high street. After 25 years with online and telephone-only services, First Direct will appear in real life for the first time at 12 station locations including Clapham, Raynes Park and Vauxhall with branded cash machines. First Direct says the [...]
Journalists beware: Financial news could soon be written by robots

July 2, 2014

Are earnings reports so mundane that a robot can be trusted to produce them? The Associated Press thinks so. The news service will soon entrust reports on earnings and some other business stories to an automated system so it can better resource more in-depth business coverage. The AP expects to produce more than 4,000 reports [...]
Facebook faces regulator probe into user experiment

July 2, 2014

Regulators in the UK are investigating Facebook to assess if any data protection laws were broken when it conducted a controversial psychological experiment on users without their knowledge. The Information Commissioners Office (ICO), the government body which oversees data and privacy regulation in the UK, said it would question Facebook about the experiment although it [...]
Energy biggest winner from government’s £400m innovation investment

July 1, 2014

The energy sector has bagged the largest amount of investment from the government's innovation fund designed to boost Britain's business and economic growth. The Technology strategy board, the government body tasked with supporting innovation, has outlined plans to fund 12 key sectors, earmarking at least £421m to spend on programmes in 2014 and 2015. [...]

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