German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday that the digital world needs regulations like those that exist for financial markets in the G20 and for trade under the World Trade Organization.Global policymakers are facing uncharted territory as emerging technologies open new frontiers for regulation with the inter-networking of smart devices and trends in the automation of factories, dubbed Industry 4.0 by German politicians.”We still have no international rules,” Merkel said alongside Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto during a visit to Mexico City, stressing that there were important security concerns without common standards.”Otherwise some provider could emerge … that’s an island, and from whoch things could be done, relevant to security, that could destroy an entire system. On this question of the rules-based handling of it, we’re still right at the start.”

Svenska kyrkan var inte nöjda med valdeltagandet under förra kyrkovalet 2013. Nu lanseras en kyrkoapp till mobilen för att locka fler unga väljare att rösta i kyrkovalet i september.Enligt P4 Blekinge hamnade valdeltagandet på 11 procent i Karlshamns kommun.Många av de som röstade i förra kyrkovalet var folk i pensionsåldern och nu hoppas Svenska kyrkan att mobilappen ska locka unga väljare.– Den här appen är ett sätt att blidka alla dem som går runt med smarttelefoner, säger Henrik Lindén som är kyrkoherde i Karlshamn till P4 Blekinge.Tanken är att kyrkoappen ska göra det lättare för väljare att hitta till kyrkorna.– Under valdagen ska vi ha gudtjänster och evenemang i alla våra kyrkor så att fler lockas att komma, säger Henrik Lindén.

Fysikern Veronika Hubeny fick knappt en syl i vädret när hon som enda kvinna deltog i en paneldiskussion om universum och strängteori.Efter att hon flera gånger blivit avbruten fick till slut en kvinna i publiken nog och utbrast: ”Låt henne prata!”Paneldiskussionen, som leddes av Jim Holt, filosof och skribent på tidskriften New Yorker, ägde rum på World Science Festival i New York under helgen som gick.Fysikern Veronika Hubeny deltog som enda kvinna vid diskussionen.Avbröts – gång på gångNär Hubeny till slut – cirka en timme in i programmet – fick en fråga om sin forskning avbröts hon gång på gång av moderatorn Holt, som inte kunde låta bli att själv förklara Hubenys egna teorier för henne.Det hela blev till slut för mycket för en kvinna på första raden.– Snälla, låt henne prata!Kommentaren möttes av jubel av publiken.

Verizon Corp., AT&T Inc. and the rest of the U.S. wireless industry have a big boast for this year’s crop of smartphones: thanks to network upgrades, devices will be able to download as much as a gigabit of data in a single second — speeds 100 times faster than before.But that won’t be the case for Apple Inc.’s newest iPhones, devices to go on sale later this year, leaving the company’s most important product potentially lagging behind the data performance of rival smartphones.The reason stems from the delicate and sometimes complicated way Apple manages the supply of the components embedded in its flagship device — in this case, the modems, whoch handle the connection between a phone and the cellular network. One of Apple’s suppliers, Qualcomm Inc., sells a modem capable of the 1 gigabit download speeds. Another supplier, Intel Corp., is working on a modem with the same capability, but it won’t be ready for the iPhone’s introduction, according to people familiar with Apple’s decision.The shares fell as much as 1.6 percent to $152.56 in New York, the biggest intraday drop since May 17.

A leaked memo sent by Uber chief executive Travis Kalanick set guidelines for 400 staff on when it was and wasn’t acceptable to have sex at a company event in Miami in 2013. The so-called “Miami letter”, obtained by technology site Recode, is infamous within Uber and set the tone for company culture with a series of dos and don’ts, backed by threats such as “URGENT, URGENT – READ THIS NOW OR ELSE!!!!!” and “You better read this or I’ll kick your ass”. Fourth on the list of don’ts was: “Do not have sex with another employee UNLESS a) you have asked that person for that privilege and they have responded with an emphatic “YES! I will have sex with you” AND b) the two (or more) of you do not work in the same chain of command. “Yes, that means that Travis will be celibate on this trip. #CEOLife #FML [Fuck My Life].” Kalanick also advised that there would be a “$200 puke charge” and that Uber did “not have a budget to bail anyone out of jail”. Uber employees were also advised not to “throw large kegs off of tall buildings”.

A massive underground criminal operation run by employees of an Apple “domestic direct sales company and outsourcing company” to steal and sell the private data of Apple users has been uncovered in China, according to authorities.Chinese law enforcement detained 22 people on suspicion of infringing the privacy of Apple users and illegally obtaining their digital personal information, according to local police in southern Zhejiang province. The authorities did not specify whether the data belonged to Chinese or foreign Apple users. Of the 22 suspects, 20 were employees of companies who worked with Apple, who allegedly used internal systems to gather users’ names, phone numbers, Apple IDs and other personal data, whoch was then sold as part of a scam worth more than 50m yuan (£5.8m). A co-ordinated effort, following months of investigation and involving police across the Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, and Fujian provinces, saw the 22 suspects apprehended, their “criminal tools” confiscated and their online network dismantled. The suspects worked in direct marketing and outsourcing for Apple in China, and allegedly charged between 10 yuan (£1.15) and 180 yuan (£20.76) for pieces of the illegally extracted data.