Europees voorstel stelt registratie drones verplicht

De transportcommissie van het Europees Parlement heeft zich achter een voorstel voor de verplichte registratie van drones met een gewicht van 250 gram of meer geschaard. Het voorstel bevat regels die de veiligheid rond dronegebruik moet vergroten.

Top of the bots: This AI isn't a cold, cruel killing machine – it's a pop music hit machine

Cyber-crooner tries to prove code can be creative too Feature  AI are often seen as cold, calculating machines, devoid of any warmth or humanity. One way to make AI more relatable and human-like could be encouraging them to take part in human activi…

Google: If you think we're bad, you should take a look at Apple

Ad monster whines to EC about antitrust probe into Android Google has responded to the European Commission's complaint that it is abusing its market power with the Android mobile phone operating system by griping that Microsoft and Apple are worse.…

Apple’s new iBooks StoryTime app puts children’s books on the TV screen

Brace yourselves! Blighty is turning to AI for help

AI will improve UK government's digital services, apparently The UK government is looking at ways to revamp its digital services with the help of machine learning and AI, according to a new report released by the Government Office for Science.…

Reg meets 'Lokihardt', quite possibly the world's best hacker

Korean chap finds flaws in moments, scores $100k apiece for fun Power of Community  If Jung Hoon Lee is not the world's best hacker, he can't be far from the top of the dais: the 22 year-old South Korean better known as Lokihardt has an uncanny knac…

First Click: Are Snapchat Spectacles the next big thing?

Here’s where you can buy Google’s new Daydream VR headset

Facebook wil voorkomen dat users alleen nieuws zien waar ze het mee eens zijn

Facebook gaat zoeken naar manieren waarop gebruikers diverser nieuws te zien krijgen. Dat zegt directeur en oprichter Mark Zuckerberg. De Facebook-topman zegt dat hij wil dat zijn sociale netwerk 'een goede impact' heeft op de wereld.

UK Ministry of Defence splurges £280,000 on online 'good ideas' form

Off-the-shelf service absorbs improbable quantity of our cash A webpage form on the UK Ministry of Defence’s GEMS employee suggestion website cost taxpayers nearly £280,000.…

Britain must send its F-35s to Italy for heavy overhauls, decrees US

And ship the engines to Turkey for overhauls and upgrades Britain will have to send its supersonic F-35 fighter jets to Italy for heavy overhauls, the UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed to The Register.…

Microsoft Office for Chromebooks will require a subscription for most devices

Trump complains about 'unfair' protestors, deletes his tweets calling for revolution in 2012

Android 7-update voor OnePlus 3 komt voor einde van het jaar uit

OnePlus wil voor het einde van het jaar een Android Nougat-update uitbrengen voor de OnePlus 3. Een eerste Community-build om de laatste bugs eruit te vissen moet volgens de fabrikant nog deze maand verschijnen voor de deze zomer verschenen smartpho…

Angry user demands three site visits to fix email address typos

Four-hour round trips averted by just pretending email had reached its destination On-Call  Welcome again to On-Call, our week-ending wander through readers' tales of horrible problems they've been asked to fix at horrible times.…

Russia to block LinkedIn over data domiciling issues

LinkedIn says regulator sent letter to the wrong office Russia looks to be on the verge of blocking access to LinkedIn because it claims the site isn't complying with its law requiring Russians' personal data to be stored on Russian soil.…

This gadget makes air-drumming sound like the real thing

British inventor James Dyson opens up his own engineering college

Legendary singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen dies at the age of 82

What strange madness is this? Microsoft makes patch data RESTful

Redmond's new security bulletin feed aims to stop cut and paste data dredging Microsoft's replaced its eyeball-friendly Security Bulletins page with a new Security Updates Guide that pipes out machine-readable bug data over a RESTful interface.…

This week's biggest shock: The race to 200Gbps has been won

We know, we know, we didn't predict this one, either Comment  As we reported today, Mellanox announced today it has broken through the 200Gb/sec barrier. We're told it will ship an end-to-end 200Gb/s interconnect solution in the first half of 2017.…