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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Red tape could stem startup Brexit exodus as tech hits government agenda

October 21, 2016

It was just two weeks after the Brexit vote that the city of Berlin sent a billboard van around Shoreditch beckoning London tech firms to move to the German capital. However, firms that took up the offer have found the German city to be lacking London's supportive, tech-friendly environment. From the country that invented the [...]
Watch: Tesla’s self-driving cars revealed in video shared by Elon Musk

October 20, 2016

All Tesla cars will have the capacity to drive themselves, company boss Elon Musk has revealed in a highly anticipated announcement which the entrepreneur had teased in tweets. All models, including the Model 3 and and Model X, will now be fitted with hardware that will make it possible to drive without human control. However, that [...]
Sky’s finally launching its mobile service

October 20, 2016

Sky is finally launching its mobile service nearly two years after it first signed a deal with Telefonica to use its O2 network capacity. Customers will be able to pre-register for the service from 31 October and the media company will reveal further details of the service at its investor event today. Sky has taken some [...]
Stephen Hawking: Artificial intelligence research crucial to the human race

October 20, 2016

The UK is about to further boost its status as a world leading centre for artificial intelligence (AI) with the launch of a new centre in Cambridge which is set to explore the implications the technology holds for humans. Officially opened by Professor Stephen Hawking on Wednesday, the £10m Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence [...]
Twitter fires its new head of VR… in the same week it hired him

October 19, 2016

Twitter is ploughing on into the world of virtual reality, though it faced a small setback today after announcing it had fired its new head of VR (roughly 48 hours after he started his new job). A Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, Gregory Gopman, had joined the struggling social network to work on a nascent team charged with [...]
Shares in this Apple supplier just fell off a cliff after a profit warning

October 19, 2016

UK tech firm Laird, which supplies components to Apple among others, has warned on profits sending shares tumbling to a five year low. Increasing pressure on margins and a shift in the production cycles of mobile devices has caused the firm to lower full-year forecasts to £50m. That's down from the previous outlook of £75m after [...]
Britain’s tech stars rally against Brexit immigration curbs in open letter

October 18, 2016

Britain's top entrepreneurs leading the country's hottest startups have called on the government to ensure they can hang on to their access to talent and skills from abroad so they can remain competitive after Brexit. Zoopla boss Alex Chesterman and founder of fintech unicorn Funding Circle, Samir Desai, are among nearly 50 leaders of the UK’s most promising and successful [...]
Letter: Entrepreneurs urge government to consider access to tech talent after Brexit

October 18, 2016

Entrepreneurs at the UK's fastest growing startups have signed an open letter urging government to consider the tech industry's need to access international talent in the wake of Brexit. Dear Editor, Britain’s digital industries are expanding at an extraordinary pace, creating jobs and contributing some £161bn in turnover to the economy. Companies like Just Eat, Mimecast, Shazam, Skyscanner, Mimecast and [...]
Quiz: Who said it – real Trump or robot Trump?

October 18, 2016

Can you tell the difference between Donald Trump and a robot? The Presidential hopeful's Tweets are increasingly erratic as voting day approaches, although, he has always had a peculiar way with 140 characters. Following along with the Presidential election race, there's a Trump Twitter bot that aims to recreate the magic of his tweets using artificial intelligence. Read [...]
£11bn cost of cyber crime to the economy – Action Fraud stats

October 18, 2016

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Iran mocks Trump’s peace talks as oil price takes sharp drop

EC urged to stop Fifa’s ‘aggressive and exploitative’ World Cup ticket prices

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