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 .
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The European Commission’s independent expert group has published a revised version of its ethics guidelines for the use of AI.
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The European Commission has issued a Statement of Objections to six video game companies, including Valve, owner of the Steam video game distribution platform.
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The Home Office and Department of Media, Culture and Sport have jointly published an Online Harms White Paper
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The Competition and Markets Authority is looking at the practice as used on the Nintendo Switch, Sony Playstation and Microsoft Xbox.
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The European Parliament has approved the Open Data and Public Sector Information Directive, which has been welcomed by the European Commission.
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A round-up of other techlaw news from the past week not covered separately on the site (w/e 5 April 2019)
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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.
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The Advocate General has issued an opinion in Case C-172/18 AMS Neve Ltd and others v Heritage Audio SL and another.
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Christian Fahey looks to the stars and introduces the concept of Space 2.0, looking at the technological and regulatory changes the satellite communications industry is undergoing and how those changes could support and foster new technologies to underpin the UK's role in that revolution.
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