The international supercomputer race may soon have a new contender: Japan is reportedly eyeing the world's fastest-ever machine. Reuters this week revealed the country's plans to spend ¥19.5 billion ($173 million) on the construction of a machine capable of making 130 quadrillion calculations per second--or 130 petaflops. For comparison, the world's current top-ranking supercomputers--Sunway TaihuLight (China), Tianhe-2 (China, pictured), Titan Cray XK7 (US)--boast Linpack marks of 93 petaflops, 34 petaflops, and 24 petaflops, respectively. In an attempt to win back the industry crown and keep jobs in Japan, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) will spend billions to construct the most nimble supercomputer in history. The machine's processing power will be available for a fee to organizations focused on driverless cars, robotics, and medical diagnostics.

Britain's intelligence services have officially been given the "most extreme spying powers ever seen". The Investigatory Powers Act has now been given royal assent, meaning that those surveillance rules will pass into law. The bill was officially unveiled a year ago and passed through the House of Lords earleir this month, but the act of being signed off means that those powers now go into effect. It adds new surveillance powers including rules that force internet providers to keep completely records of every website that all of their customers visit. Those will be available to a wide range of agencies, which includes the Department for Work and Pensions as well as the Food Standards Agency.

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The collaboration between British automotive parts maker Delphi Automotive and Israeli computer vision system company Mobileye, announced Aug. 23, to develop high-end self-driving solutions is taking another step forward. Technology giant Intel Corp. will join the venture, the companies are expected to announce Tuesday. Mobileye is a known name in the autonomous driving space, having famously partnered with -- and split from -- industry leader Tesla Motors. The split, which became unusually public, came close on the heels of the Israeli firm announcing another collaboration with German automaker BMW, which also included Intel. When it comes to the field of autonomous driving, which is akin to computers on wheel that drive themselves from point to point, Intel is not in the same leading position it enjoys in the world of personal computers.

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The House of Commons has passed a Bill that forces people to ask to be allowed to see porn and bans many sex acts from appearing in adult videos. The Digital Economy Bill received an unopposed third reading from MPs, meaning that it is on its way to becoming law. As such, it will force pornographic websites to add age verification checks that won't let people watch videos until they sign up to a special verification programme. It will also put into law new rules that will allow videos depicting unusual practices from adult websites. That clause, which provoked anger this week, bans anything from being made available online in the UK that wouldn't be allowed on a commercially available DVD.

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Written by C. Raja Mohan Updated: November 29, 2016 12:18 am Two themes of Donald Trump's deeply disruptive presidential campaign resonated with the American people. One was to put America to work again by bringing jobs back and the other was to make the US military the most powerful and feared in the world again. Both would involve dealing with new technologies like big data, artificial intelligence, robotics and bioengineering -- often described as constituting the "fourth industrial revolution". The fusion of the cyber and the physical is indeed transforming the economic and security landscape in the world. Delhi, which has had little debate on the unfolding strategic implications of the fourth industrial revolution, must now begin to pay attention.

The whole technology landscape is changing and is ushering in new ways to put it to use. The way things have been run in the past 20 years no longer holds water and we need to change to adapt and be relevant. At the Bengaluru ITE.BIZ 2016, Bhaskar Ghosh, Group Chief Executive, Accenture Technology Services, shed light on what the next wave in the IT sector would be. "We went through several waves – IT services, e-commerce, cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum computing. New tech is maturing faster and the time to learn and execute in the market is short. We need to learn to master the speed. Every business is a software business. Even manufacturing is driven by software," he explained.

Japan's major cancer research institution said Tuesday it plans to use artificial intelligence to diagnose cancer and decide the best courses of treatment for patients. The National Cancer Center said it will work with other organizations including the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology to make a system for cancer diagnosis and treatment for trial use within five years. The system will use a database created from massive data accumulated by the center, which includes genetic information and results of blood tests and diagnostic imaging, and also check relevant medical research papers, it said. The center plans to use the system for finding new markers for detecting cancer at an early stage and developing cancer drugs. Similar moves to utilize AI in the medical field are already underway at various institutions nationwide.