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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After all, we test thousands of technology products in our lab each year, rating them against competitors, crowning winners and losers, all with the simple focus of telling you what technology to buy. Each of us has fielded numerous emails, texts, and phone calls from our readers, parents, high school friends, and others asking: "Which (TV, laptop, phone, headphones, or fill in the appropriate blank) should I buy?" We happily dispense this buying advice because we love what we do. Who better to assemble the ultimate tech-focused gift guide than us? The majority of the products in this story are ones that we've tested and rated throughout the year. There are, however, a few we haven't yet reviewed, or are in the process of reviewing, but we believe merit inclusion for their value proposition, specific appeal, or general cool gadget factor. After the last pine needle has fallen and all the gift wrap is recycled, we'll continue to update this story throughout the year, so it always includes our favorite products, and you have a curated list of gift ideas for every holiday. What's on your wish list this year? Is there a perfect holiday gift we didn't include?

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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The cars are old and beat up, there are no timers or cheering crowds, and the California sun is nowhere to be seen. Instead, a brown murkiness hangs over the entire world, lending it an eerie and oppressive quality. This is a driving game inspired, not by long pleasure drives along some Pacific highway, but by a childhood spent living in and eventually fleeing the Soviet bloc. He had come home from kindergarten and asked his mother if she would hang out the Soviet flag for Labour Day – a "tradition" enforced by the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. "When she told me she would not, I told her I would have to report that to my kindergarten educators because they asked us to," Švadlena says.

We caught up with Stephen Boyle following the IBM Watson Health event he ran at our Digital Health and Wellbeing Festival to see how IBM Watson Health is using Cognitive Computing to change the face of healthcare. I'm also a nurse by background so I have a long clinical career. This is my thirtieth year in healthcare – which I shouldn't admit to anybody! My role really, is to start to think about how we can work with cognitive computing in healthcare to really make that difference that we're all trying to achieve. A: IBM Watson Health is part of the giant organisation that is IBM, we're the part that is looking to utilise cognitive computing in healthcare.

Not a day goes by when I don't hear another artificial intelligence horror case. There's something called artificial intelligence coming up. This big unknown is personified with a picture of the Terminator. If evoking more of a modern and less of a killer machine image is desired, the protagonist in Ex Machina (although no less scary) is selected. The audience is really interested now.