Articles Written by Krzysztof Shyak
After studying zoology and scientific translation at the uni, Krzysztof Shyak began writing about startups, investment and technologies. Considers blockchain technology among the most powerful tools available to bring the intellectual, economical, and physical freedom to an individual.
Premonition’s Toby Unwin: I Think the Fundamental Problem With Law Is That Financial Incentives Are Misaligned
The legal industry is evolving. The mechanic routine tasks are now more often automated, leaving legal professionals with more time to work on complex problems and make strategic decisions. Or at least that’s what law firms want us to think. In order to figure out what’s going on with the modern legal industry and legal …
Google Risks New Antitrust Fines in the EU. The U.S. Lags Behind Again
Yet again, European regulators are coming after U.S.-based tech companies that operate in the EU. This time the culprit is none other than Google and the misdeed is the company’s policy of forcing its software into Android-based devices by default. The penalty for the alleged violation of the EU’s antitrust laws is expected to include …
Axon and DJI Partner Up to Equip US Police With Very Capable Flying Helpers
All the drone hype brought up in the recent years seems to be subsiding, giving way to ICOs and AI. But what if you take the so-yesterday drone debate, mix it with evergreen SkyNet-esque AI controversies and add just a pinch of ever so vigilant government? This time, you probably won’t like the answer, let …
Wilfried De Wever: Even in the Developed World People Don’t Have Access to Justice
Legal tech initiatives emerge everywhere around the world attempting to improve access to justice and make the work of lawyers easier. There are people and institutions working on top of their effort to support the best of these initiatives and make it count. At the recent European Legal Hackers Summit 2018, dedicated to legal tech …
Highlights From the European Legal Hackers Summit 2018
Technology keeps on evolving, and the regulatory bodies and businesses alike have to adapt to the changing landscape. For law professionals such a technology-driven evolution brings new tools for the job, new reasons to muse about the future, and, in some cases, new concerns to address. Legal tech, emerging from the fusion of legal practice …
Moscow Legal Tech’s Holger Zscheyge: a Lawyer Replaced by Robot Is Less Probable Than a Lawyer Replaced by Another Lawyer With Better Technology
As our knowledge of robotics and machine learning evolves, automation advances into a variety of aspects in our daily lives and jobs. Soon, AI will be able to get to even the most complicated, abstract, and responsible tasks traditionally available only to humans. One of such complicated cases is the adoption of AI-based solutions in …