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• Uber unveils its £200M London Clean Air Plan

  Uber wants to charge 15p per mile to reduce emissions.

  • Matthew Hughes

• UK puts on misleading robot puppet-show in Parliament

  Parliament recently hosted a Pepper robot from Hanson Robotics, bizarrely treating it as though it were a person providing ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Amazon is reportedly looking for retail space for its first UK cashierless supermarkets

  Amazon Go is crossing the Atlantic.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Wonga: a premature but overdue eulogy

  It's expensive to be poor.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Research from Stripe shows Brits love Apple Pay; hate tipping

  US tipping culture just doesn't translate across the ocean.

  • Matthew Hughes

• This startup wants to change how renters pay for deposits

  For lots of people, moving apartments is hampered by difficulties in scraping together a security deposit. If you're living paycheck-to-paycheck, this can be unbelievably hard. One insurtech startup trying to change how deposits work is Reposit, which replaces the traditional six-week's ...

  • Matthew Hughes

• Google has a handy new job search tool for UK users

  Google wants to help you find your next job.

  • Matthew Hughes

• The UK's new Minister for Digital (probably) doesn't know anything about tech

  The party of meritocracy just picked someone who doesn't do tech to run the UK government's tech portfolio

  • Matthew Hughes

• Facebook just bought an AI startup to help it fight fake news

  Can Bloomsbury AI help fix your timeline?

  • Matthew Hughes

• The BlackBerry Key2 is now available in the UK with an MSRP of £579

  The Key2 is now available at ultra-luxury retailer Selfridges.

  • Matthew Hughes

• Monzo is (finally!) rolling out international money transfers

  Monzo's new money transfers are powered by TransferWise

  • Matthew Hughes

• Revolut to launch a commission-free trading service

  Revolut wants to launch the Robinhood of Europe

  • Matthew Hughes