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Schrödinger’s Cat, Einstein’s Dice and the Chandelier: A Novice’s Guide to Quantum Computers

April 9, 2019

Rebecca Keating, building on her talk at last year’s Annual Conference, offers a novice’s guide to some of the key concepts of quantum computing, how near we are to practical quantum computing and the implications for lawyers ….

European Commission issues Statement of Objections over geoblocking of video games

April 8, 2019

The European Commission has issued a Statement of Objections to six video game companies, including Valve, owner of the Steam video game distribution platform….

Techlaw News Round-Up

April 4, 2019

Crown Commercial Service updates core terms and joint schedules for public sector contracts The Crown Commercial Service has updated the documents ‘Public Sector Contract—Core Terms’ and ‘Public Sector Contract—Joint Schedules’. The core terms form part of the framework and call-off contracts, which need to be used in every contract. The joint schedules can be used…

CMA launches a consumer law investigation into auto-renewal of online gaming memberships

April 4, 2019

The Competition and Markets Authority is looking at the practice as used on the Nintendo Switch, Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox….

Techsplainer: The Code behind Cryptocurrency

April 3, 2019

In the first of a regular column explaining the terminology behind the tech, the SCL’s resident geek, Simon Forrester, looks at asymmetric keypairs and hashing and how they underpin cryptocurrencies….

In Code we trust? Trustlessness and smart contracts

March 31, 2019

Mimi Zou, Grace Cheng and Marta Soria Heredia look at ‘trustlessness’ which they argue has given rise to a common misperception of smart contracts reducing or even eliminating the need for trust….

Legal Design Explained: Part 1 – What is Legal Design?

March 29, 2019

Legal Design Engineer, Charlotte Baker, explains what we mean by the increasingly popular term ‘legal design’, the principles and tools involved, and explores various real-life examples of legal design in practice. In this first part of a four-part series of short articles, she defines what this new term means….