Alistair Charlton

Senior Technology Reporter

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A Yorkshireman in London, Alistair is Deputy Technology Editor. He focuses on consumer technology and motoring. He has worked at IBTimes UK since September 2011 and regularly writes product reviews and features, as well as news and opinion pieces. Alistair holds a degree in Journalism & English Language from Kingston University London.

Electric cars: UK drivers to get free parking, charging and use of bus lanes

Electric and hybrid drivers in some UK cities to get free parking, charging from street lamps and bus lane use.

Crash Safari: iPhone users warned not to click on browser-crippling tweets

Twitter users are spreading links to a website which crashes the Safari and Chrome web browsers.

Google Glass consumer brand name killed off as social-media accounts are shut down

Twitter, Google+ and Instagram accounts closed down as 'Enterprise Edition' business device becomes focus

Driverless cars: Mercedes boss impressed by Google and Apple progress

Daimler and Mercedes head Dieter Zetsche impressed by Silicon Valley meetings.

Fancy eating underwater? This Samsung virtual reality restaurant is the weirdest thing you'll see all week

Company believes the future of dining is to use virtual reality to take you under the sea while you eat.

James Bond: Aston Martin DB10 up for sale - but only a Bond villain could afford it

DB10 from Spectre is going up for auction along with 23 other items from the Bond film.

Apple Watch 2, Samsung Gear S3, Moto 360 3: Smartwatches to get excited about in 2016

Smartwatches from Apple, Samsung, Sony and others are all expected to be updated in 2016.

Elon Musk's Supersonic Hyperloop train to open to public in 2018

Construction to begin within weeks on Supersonic Hyperloop train envisioned by Elon Musk

Apple Watch Hermès Collection arrives online 22 January: Price starts at £1,000

Three styles and multiple colours of Apple Watch Hermès Collection will be available for purchase.

Samsung Galaxy S7 specs leak: How powerful will the next flagship be?

Benchmarks by Galaxy S7 reveal screen size and resolution, plus processors, RAM and cameras.

Top 10 tips for better iPhone battery life

Our top 10 tips for tweaking iOS and extending your iPhone battery life without compromising performance.

Code in iOS 9 beta hints at Apple plan to remove headphone jack on iPhone 7

The iPhone 7 could be thinner if the headphone jack was removed from the handset.

Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking win Luddite Award for artificial intelligence fears

The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation criticises Musk and Hawking for alarmist AI fears

Amazon 'beefs up' Prime Air drone delivery service with new staff and a Nasa astronaut

Details emerge on the Amazon Prime Air drone delivery service including range and carrying capacity.

Top UK motor insurers Admiral, Aviva and Direct Line form alliance to tackle autonomous cars

Eleven of UK's biggest motor insurers have partnered to liaise with the government about self-driving cars.

These were the most popular passwords of 2015: Will we ever learn?

The most popular passwords of 2015, according to SplashData, reveal we still have no clue about web security.

Twitter down: Social network offline worldwide

Twitter is suffering from a server outage in the UK, US, Japan and Europe as users are unable to tweet

Apple iPad Pro review: Big screen thrills come at a high price

The iPad Pro has a huge 12.2in screen but is the extra space and performance worth the high cost?

Galaxy S7, LG G5, BlackBerry Vienna and Microsoft Lumia: The biggest phones expected at MWC 2016

These are the biggest phones expected at Mobile World Congress 2016, including the Samsung Galaxy S7 family.

Will the Apple Watch 2 arrive in March? New model tipped to have FaceTime camera

Apple Watch 2 is rumoured to arrive in spring but it could be a small upgrade.

Best technology deals of the week: Samsung Gear VR for £80 and discounts on the iPhone 6S

This week's deals include the Samsung Gear VR for £80 and money off the entire iPhone 6S and 6S Plus range.

Silk Road drug trial: Ross Ulbricht points finger at 'corrupt policemen' in appeal for retrial

Drug site creator appeals life sentence as lawyer highlights crooked law enforcement agents.

Wunderland: Tiny Google Street View cameras reveal incredible detail of world's largest model city

Miniature cameras travel the railways and roads of the model city to capture its amazing detail.

Faraday Future admits FFZero1 is 'expression of what we are' as 1st electric car gets 2018 release

Nick Sampson, product architect of Faraday Future, tells IBTimes UK about his plans to revolutionise the car.

LG G5 to debut on same day as Samsung Galaxy S7 at Mobile World Congress

LG invitations for event in Barcelona on 21 February suggest the new G5 flagship will arrive ahead of MWC.

Google seeks car-maker partners – but insists self-drive vehicles must have no human control

Google hopes to partner with traditional car-makers in its autonomous driving project.

Cybercriminals pay crooked call centres to phone banks pretending to be you

Call centres employ multilingual staff to phone banks in their local language to try and extract money.

Apple CarPlay: These are all the vehicles that work with the in-car infotainment system

A list of every car and truck on sale now and throughout 2016 which works with Apple CarPlay

iPhone 7 rumour roundup: What we expect from Apple's next smartphone

From wireless charging and waterproofing, to the removal of the headphone jack, here are our iPhone 7 expectations.

CES 2016: Best car technology from BMW and Audi to Faraday Future, VW and McLaren

Round up of the biggest car technology stories from the Consumer Electronics Show.