
Alan Martin
After a false career start producing flash games, Alan Martin has been writing about phones, wearables and internet culture for over a decade with bylines all over the web and print.
Previously Deputy Editor of Alphr, he turned freelance in 2018 and his words can now be found all over the web, on the likes of Tom's Guide, The i, TechRadar, NME, Gizmodo, Coach, T3, The New Statesman and ShortList, as well as in the odd magazine and newspaper.
He's rarely seen not wearing at least one smartwatch, can talk your ear off about political biographies, and is a long-suffering fan of Derby County FC (which, on balance, he'd rather not talk about). He lives in London, right at the bottom of the Northern Line, long after you think it ends.
You can find Alan tweeting at @alan_p_martin, or email him at mralanpmartin@gmail.com.
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US politicians make Zuckerberg sweat
News The Facebook CEO’s time in Washington is over, though he has a lot of homework to do
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Mark Zuckerberg at Congress: Why, when and where to watch
In-depth Mr Zuckerberg goes to Washington
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Twitter a “toxic place for women,” says Amnesty
News 78% of women surveyed said they didn’t feel they could express an opinion without backlash
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Tmper-proof Bitcoin wallet hacked by a British 15-year-old
News Ledger and the hacker disagree to the extent that the problem has been solved
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Cambridge Analytica and Facebook: What happened?
News Whistleblower Christopher Wylie has some alarming accusations about how a political influencing company acquired its data
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Tim Berners-Lee: Google and Facebook are weaponising the web
News World Wide Web founder highlights the myriad problems with our online world
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Elon Musk steps down from OpenAI board
News Tesla and SpaceX CEO departs the company he co-founded
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eBay dumps PayPal after 15 years together
News It’s not you, it’s me
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Intel has hit a “major breakthrough” in quantum computing
News The CES 2018 keynote covered quantum computers, self-driving cars and a self-learning AI chip
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Meet the man getting big screen cybersecurity right
In-depth Movies often gets hacking wrong. Ralph Echemendia is trying to put that right
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4G London Underground coming in 2019
News No more internet blackspots, even under ground
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Currys slashes £250 off the Surface Pro
News £849 including a type cover makes Microsoft’s wonder hybrid a tempting impulse buy for Black Friday
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Cash Converters hit by UK data breach ransom demand
News Personal details, passwords and masked credit card numbers could be about to leak
By Alan Martin Published
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Paradise Papers: Apple drawn into tax haven scandal
News The Paradise Papers contain a massive trove of documents showing offshore empires of tech firms
By Alan Martin Published
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Witchsy exposes sexism with fake male CEO
News Witchsy invented a fake male CEO, and instantly noticed things getting easier
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Two million customers hit by CeX hack
News CeX tells customers to change passwords after being targeted by hackers
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Uber donates $1.2 million to Girls Who Code
News Susan J Fowler – the author of the Uber sexism memo – is unimpressed by the gesture
By Alan Martin Published
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Robotics experts write killer robots to the UN
News Autonomous weapons threaten to be the “third revolution in warfare”
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Government offers £4.6 million for facial-recognition system
Reviews Putting your taxpayer money where your mouth is
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Apple pulls VPNs from the App Store
News Apple removes VPNs from the Chinese store, while Russia makes them illegal
By Alan Martin Published
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RIP Windows Phone: Microsoft ends support for its dying OS
News Windows Phone 8.1's support finished yesterday - will Windows 10 Mobile last much longer?
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Gartner: BlackBerry's market share hits rock bottom
News Welcome to the operating system duopoly
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Google DeepMind has learned to read the London Underground
News While it sounds basic, the manner in which the AI is learning is a big breakthrough
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From firefighters to retailers: IoT things outside the home
In-depth Smartlocks, alarms and lighting are one thing, but the biggest IoT revolution could happen outside the home
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