EU pegs quota for 'homegrown' content on Netflix at 30 per cent

Streaming service argues it'll result in lower quality work The European Parliament has set content quotas for OTT video services like Netflix and Amazon Prime even higher than the Commission originally wanted. 30 per cent of the services' catalog m…

Drones over London caused aviation chaos, pilots' reports reveal

Heathrow flights were diverted to avoid errant UAVs A pair of errant drones over East London caused so much airspace disruption that flights to Heathrow had to be diverted for fear of collision, it has emerged.…

IK Multimedia announces Syntronik for Mac/PC

IK Multimedia has introduced Syntronik (www.ikmultimedia.com/syntronik) a virtual synthesizer for Mac/PC that will be available in July 2017 and is now open for pre-order. It includes 17 ins…

Facebook is trying to salvage Instant Articles by adding support for Google AMP

Android co-founder Andy Rubin will likely debut his new Essential smartphone May 30th

Nokia's retro revival 3310 goes on sale and disappears immediately

People must really love Snake If you blinked, you missed it.…

Info commish: One year to go and businesses still not ready for GDPR

Thought £400k TalkTalk fine was big? Try €20m Companies are unprepared for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into force a year today, and some small businesses "might not even know" a new regime is looming, the UK Information Comm…

Early farmers and hunter-gatherers got it on with each other, study says

With nothing left to sell, RadioShack is selling itself to people

Blippar's car-identifying app is like SeeFood for cars

People who had personal information used in anti-net neutrality spam are asking the FCC to investigate

Instagram is just now offering support for sending links in direct messages

The new Pokémon mobile game is about training the best Magikarp you can

Apple designer Marc Newson made a $12,000 hourglass filled with nanoballs that are apparently too beautiful for words

Lenovo UK boss pulls the chain, flushes himself out of there

Wang gets the call to arms, stands to attention Exclusive  Lenovo UK boss John Harber has quit just 15 months after taking the hot seat, El Reg can confirm.…

'Cloak and dagger' vuln rolls critical hit against latest Android versions

Malicious combination of legitimate permissions A distinct class of Android vulnerability has been unearthed by computer scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta.…

Unmarked Software releases TextSoap 8.4 update

Unmarked Software has announced TextSoap 8.4, a feature update to its text processing and editing utility for macOS. The app processes text from endless different formats. TextSoap serves to…

Rime is beautiful, heartbreaking, and a little too familiar

Acer releases a pair of laptops ahead of Computex

Watch the first Chinese woman to win a Hugo Award headline an Audi commercial

Baidu’s new text-to-speech system can master hundreds of accents