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A call for innovation in stamp duty The Victorians designed a stamp duty collection system that required one or more coloured stamps to be embossed on a document at one of the local stamp offices around the UK.  This machinery is still in use! There is now only one stamp office, in...
Data, experimentation and innovation All businesses face the challenge of managing hugely increasing volumes of data, ranging from usage data derived from their systems and devices, to secondary data sources such as social media or customer reviews. Most organisations recognise that...
The societal impact of digitisation Deliveroo has not made it onto the Financial Times' list of European digital champions this year, after splitting the jury over its decision to treat delivery drivers as self-employed. Despite the undeniable impact the company has had on disrupting the...
AI: dressed for success An AI algorithm has successfully learned how to dress itself, even adapting when researchers changed the starting position and shape of the clothing. In a way that might seem familiar to those of us who are not naturally "morning people", researchers...
Busting myths about blockchain and operational costs The Global Data Thematic Research Summit held today raised some interesting questions about the promises made by distributed ledger tech and blockchain evangelists. One of the biggest myths is that blockchain could save organisations millions in...
Taxing GIG workers Uber is apparently going to collect tax from its Mexican drivers.  The UK is also struggling to work out how to collect tax from GIG workers. Self-employment numbers are rising and the proportion of UK tax revenues collected via PAYE are falling. The UK’s...
UK Court of Appeal goes live on YouTube - a win or loss for access to justice? Yesterday for the first time in UK legal history, a Court of Appeal case was streamed live on YouTube.  The case, WH Holding Limited and Anr v E20 Stadium LLP, involves a dispute over how many West Ham fans are allowed into the former Olympic stadium for...
Innovating for diversity: 2 Following on from my recent post on diversity driving innovation and my experience of this at S and M, it's great to see innovation driving diversity in law further afield at the second Diversity in Law Hackathon in San Francisco. At the Hackathon earlier...
Automation: a question of more than cost Early conversations around automation often focus on the financials: how much will it cost to implement, and what is the potential future saving? However, as the technology has become more familiar and more widely adopted, data suggests that companies'...
Hydrogen is making a comeback For years, most of the talk in the renewables sector has been around solar, wind, nuclear, hydro and bio-fuels. But now hydrogen is making a play to return to the mainstream - Hyundai recently released its Nexo range, powered by a hydrogen fuel cell. With...