You Can Now Access Gmail in 71 Languages

Google is adding 13 additional languages to Gmail, bringing its total language count to 71, the company announced on Monday.

Gmail — which now covers languages spoken by 94% of the world's Internet population — can now be formatted to Afrikaans, Armenian, Azerbaijani (Azeri), Chinese (Hong Kong), French (Canada), Galician, Georgian, Khmer, Lao, Mongolian, Nepali, Sinhala and Zulu.

Users can switch to any one of the 71 languages, regardless of where they live. For example, if you're trying to learn Spanish or want to brush up on your Canadian French, Gmail lets you make the change.

To do so, visit the Settings option in Gmail and it's the first option under the "General" tab.

Google representatives said in a blog post that the company worked closely with linguists to make sure the tone and style for the additional languages were on point — all languages have their own nuances.

"For example, both Hong Kong and Taiwan use traditional Chinese characters," the blog post reads. "However, you’ll notice that Gmail’s new Chinese (Hong Kong) language uses 收件箱 for “Inbox” instead of 收件匣, which is a word more common in Taiwan."

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China Has the Fastest Supercomputer in the World — Again

Zipping along at 33.86 petaflops (quadrillions of calculations per second), China's Tianhe-2 is the world's fastest computer for the third year in a row, according to Top500, a twice yearly compilation of the fastest computers on Earth.

The results were announced on Monday at the International Supercomputing Conference in Leipzig, Germany.

The Tianhe-2 was developed by China's National University of Defense Technology. Its predecessor, the Tianhe-1A, held the top spot on the supercomputer list in 2010. Top500 organizers note that the top 10 supercomputers are mostly unchanged from the last list, with the exception of a Cray XC30 computer, which is "installed at an undisclosed U.S. government site," according to a release on the Top500.org site.

Overall, the United States has by far the most supercomputers out of the top 500 systems, with China in a distant second; the UK, France and Germany lag far behind.

Supercomputers are not like the computers you use at home or in the office; they're not even much like the servers you’ll find in the office basement. They’re comprised of thousands of nodes and designed for crunching data and solving very difficult problems — in other words, research and development. That's why you'll find them hidden away at military facilities and laboratories.

Top500 notes that the rate of performance growth for the entire list is slowing down. Performance at the low end of the list typically grew at 90% year-over-year, but has now dropped to a 55% growth rate. Part of this deceleration is attributed to the dearth of new systems at the top. Despite that lack of change, these supercomputers will get more super. Tianhe-2 is projected to reach 100 petaflops by 2018.

Of the 500 systems on the list, 37 offer performance above the 1 petaflops range, nearly all of them use multicore processors, and 85% of them are running Intel processors. As for the systems themselves, 36% are built by HP and 33% by IBM. Cray builds 10%.

This is the 21st year that organizers in Germany and the United States have compiled the list.

The computer scientists measure system performance with the Linpack Benchmark, which is used in each system to solve "a dense set of equations." The benchmark is not a measure of the system's overall performance, but rather its performance on that task. Top500 organizers insist that no single benchmark can effectively measure the overall performance of a given system.

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Japan Lets You Use Your Passport to Get Free Wi-Fi

Although Japan is renowned for having some of the best customer service on the planet, for various reasons, including language and cultural hurdles, it isn't known as the most tourist-friendly destination.

Some of those hurdles also extend into the tech arena, namely, Wi-Fi. Although sidling up to a café in Europe or North America and grabbing a bit of free Wi-Fi for your mobile device is common, finding such wireless access in tech-centric Japan's major cities remains notoriously difficult. But that's about to change.

A new program launched by NTT (Japan's largest telecom), is designed to serve foreign tourists on the hunt for Wi-Fi. For those who haven't traveled to Japan, the program might seem behind the times, but for anyone familiar with attempting to find Wi-Fi in Japan, this is huge news. (YouTube is littered with video commentary from frustrated travelers marveling at the lack of Wi-Fi access in such a technologically advanced country as Japan.)

Now, when a traveler arrives at a Japanese airport, they can present their passport and register for a Wi-Fi card that offers free Wi-Fi coverage via 45,000 hot spots in the eastern Japan area including Tokyo, Hakone, Mt. Fuji, Yokohama, Nagano, Nikko, Kusatsu, Tohoku, Hokkaido and Fukushima.

Additionally, a traveler outside of the country preparing to visit Japan can download the iOS or Android version of the NAVITIME for Japan Travel app and obtain an ID and password beforehand. The app also offers an augmented reality mode that shows you a Street View-style image of the location where an available Wi-Fi hotspot is located.

However, the access only lasts for 14 days (or 336 hours), just enough to get you used to the free access, but not long enough to be truly useful for anyone planning an extended stay in Japan.

According to the Nikkei, the program is also being directed by the Japanese government, which plans to use the initiative to get more buildings in the country to offer Wi-Fi access.

The trial program, which began earlier this year, will last until September 2014.

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Codecademy Takes Its Free Coding Lessons Worldwide

Codecademy, the free online learning platform that teaches users to code, is going global.

Since its launch in 2011, more than 24 million users have completed more than 100 million exercises on the Codecademy platform. But even though 70% of all those users are from outside the United States, the lessons themselves have always been in English.

Until now. On Thursday, Codecademy announced a new global initiative to help bring those lessons and skills to other languages. According to Codecademy CEO and cofounder Zach Sims, this initiative is the first step to making the platform truly global.

Codecademy has partnered with governments and education groups in Brazil, France, the United Kingdom, Estonia and Argentina to better align its lessons and platforms for those regions.

To do this, the company has translated its lessons into Portuguese, French and Spanish — and more languages are on the way. The translations aren't machine-based, but instead completed by experts in conjunction with local government or educational groups.

The Lemann Foundation in Brazil helped oversee the translation to Portuguese. The government of Buenos Aires worked with Codecademy as part of its commitment to bringing programming skills to all of its citizens. The Buenos Aires translation is in Spanish, which means that Codecademy will now be accessible to millions of users in Spanish-speaking languages around the globe.

In France, Libraries Without Borders is working on the French Codecademy translation. The target audience for French isn't necessarily learners living in France, but those in French-speaking regions such as Haiti and Cameroon. Sims tells me that according to Libraries Without Borders, refugees often spend 18 years in refugee camps — without access to technology or infrastructure. Libraries Without Borders works to deploy educational materials, books and technology to those camps across the globe.

The Estonian government is working with Codecademy and the Tiger Leap program to bring coding skills to K-12 students.

In the United Kingdom, where Codecademy is opening its first international office, the startup is working with the government and with programs such as Computing at School to adapt Codecademy online lessons for the classroom.

It's this model, where lessons can be de-tethered to a degree from a computer, that Codecademy hopes to replicate in other regions.

Codecademy is already optimized to work on low-speed connections, Sims said, and the company has an iOS app currently available. However, Sims added, the nature of programming really requires a computer.

Still, he concedes that the company is trying to made its service easier to access lesson offline, too, and the company is looking into optimizing for other types of devices. Codecademy works closely with the Raspberry Pi community, as those systems are often used in educational labs in emerging markets.

For Sims, this first push is just the beginning. Although Codecademy wants to ensure that translations are correct and up to snuff (language and wording is particularly important in code), he also recognizes the role communities can play in helping localize lessons into native languages.

In a perfect world, Sims said, the platform of Codecademy will create ecosystems and communities in certain areas where users can start developing their own lessons in their own language. This is similar to the way the Open Street Map project works, and in that case, the results have been remarkably successful.

The fact that so many of Codecademy's users are from outside the U.S. is a telling indicator of the global demand for this kind of education.

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New Fingerprinting Method Takes a Hard Look at Your Pores

Criminals might not get away so easily, thanks to a new fingerprinting method that may be faster and more reliable than traditional methods, researchers say.

The method images the sweat pores in a human hand using a polymer that glows fluorescent and changes color when it comes in contact with tiny droplets of water. Only a small fraction of the fingerprint is needed to identify an individual, according to the new study.

"The sensor technology developed in this study has the potential of serving as a new method for fingerprint analysis and for the clinical diagnosis of malfunctioning sweat pores," the researchers wrote in the study, detailed April 29 in the journal Nature Communications.

The idea of using sweat pores for fingerprinting isn't new, but this is the first time that fast, reliable and cheap methods have been available.

A team led by Jong-Man Kim, a chemical engineer at Hanyang University in South Korea, developed a new fingerprinting method that uses a simple color-changing polymer that can be deposited using an ink-jet printer. When a fingertip is pressed against it, the polymer changes color from blue to red and glows in the places where it comes into contact with sweat, producing a dotted pattern that constitutes a unique fingerprint.

Traditional fingerprinting, which captures the characteristic ridge patterns on the fingertip, requires a large area to produce a reliable print and is prone to error. In contrast, the sweat-pore method requires only a small fraction of the fingertip to match it to its owner and is more reliable, researchers said.

The new method could also be used to diagnose sweat-pore disorders, because it can distinguish functioning pores from nonfunctioning ones.

This article originally published at LiveScience

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World's Fastest Elevators Will Be a Smooth Ride to the Top

They won't be faster than a speeding bullet, but two new elevators are sure to pack a punch.

A skyscraper currently under construction in Guangzhou, China will house the world's fastest elevators when it is completed in 2016. Hitachi, the company building the elevators, claims that once they are finished, the elevators will offer smooth, comfortable rides — despite moving at top speeds.

The elevators will rocket from the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre's first floor to its 95th in about 43 seconds. At their fastest they will reach 45 miles per hour — 15 miles per hour over New York City's speed limit. In comparison, the average elevator only moves at about 5 to 22 miles per hour.

However, speed isn't the only thing Hitachi needs to think about — acceleration and deceleration are also vital considerations, according to James Fortune, an elevator expert who designed the two elevators in Taiwan's Taipei 101 building, which currently holds the record for world's fastest elevator. Japan uses rates at 0.8 or 0.9 meters per second squared for both measurements; that's slower than those in the United States, which range from 1 to 1.2 meters per second squared. This change in speed can affect riders' inner ears on the way down, making them "pop" as they would on an airplane. The elevators at the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre will descend at 22 miles per hour.

"There's nothing inherently dangerous about high-speed elevators," Fortune told. "It's a function of acceleration."

This sensation will be reduced with technology installed on the cars that can adjust the air pressure in the elevators, according to a Hitachi press release.

Heat-resistant braking equipment will be able to safely stop the elevators when they are moving at high speeds if a malfunction occurs. A device called a governor will activate the equipment if it detects excessive speed. Elevators that go this fast are built to stop gradually, even in an emergency, Fortune said. Even during normal stops and starts, microcomputers will provide control, as passengers get on and off the elevators, according to Hitachi's website.

Guide rails are installed in most elevators to prevent lateral vibrations. The farther an elevator can go, the greater the risk of these rails warping. In response, Hitachi has developed a system that sends data about acceleration speeds to the guide rails in an effort to control the pressure that is put on them; this is the reason why it may not feel like an elevator is moving, even if it is actually flying upward quite quickly. Modern elevators experience almost no horizontal vibration, according to Fortune.

Designed by Kohn Pederson Fox Associates, the Guangzhou CTF Finance Centre will stand at 1,738 feet. It will have 111 above-ground floors and five below the ground. The skyscraper will include residential housing, office space and a hotel. In addition to the two record-breaking elevators, it will house 93 other low-, medium- and high-speed lifts.

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Dutch Student Sells All of His Personal Data for 350 Euros

A Dutch student has taken the bold decision to sell all his data at auction. It's a decision that should make us think about the future of our own information.

In an auction on April 12, Shawn Buckles sold his complete "data soul" — his location records, his medical records, his personal calendar, the content of his emails and all the information from his social media communications. He sold his online conversations, his consumer preferences and his Internet browsing history. The lot. And for his soul he received €350.

Like Buckles, we all generate vast amounts of data on a daily basis and it is used by various companies for various purposes, such as to tailor online advertising. People don't generally understand the value of their data, which is partly what Buckles was commenting on when he sold his.

It might seem that exchanging your personal data for benefits will not feature in the near future but Buckle's auction shows us that a scenario in which we commercialize our personal information is not necessarily that distant.

As yet there is no market on which an individual can sell their personal data. While it is already to some extent clear what companies such as Google, Facebook and Tesco can get out of it, it is unknown how much a data soul is worth nor how one might use all the pieces of data that one person produces as a single package.

Perhaps luckily for Buckles, his auction is unlikely to provide any answers. The winning bidder was technology news company The Next Web, which Buckles says will use his data to highlight the issue of online privacy rather than to a more sinister end.

The sale is also probably not an accurate measure of the true market value of a person's data soul. It is plausible that in the future the value of personal data will be determined through an emergent market that can leverage it effectively.

There is demand from the health research sector, entertainment industries and insurance companies, to name but a few. If a more established market was operating to serve this demand, we could probably expect to get out of the data what it is actually worth.

That said, it is also possible that a market could emerge that would see us exchanging our data for something other than money. Insurance companies might reduce insurance premiums based on lifestyle data collected through life-logging. Information from apps that monitor your sleep, activity or exercise could work for both you and the company. In fact, this type of exchange is already happening in car insurance, where premiums depend on your driving record.

Benefit doesn't have to imply direct monetary value to the person, either. We might in the future decide to use our data as a philanthropic resource. Instead of or as well as giving a monthly donation to our favorite charity, we might donate our data. A disease research charity could benefit from your health records, for example.

Buckle's auction also raises important ethical questions, of course. At what point do digital records of human behavior stop being personal? Obviously the content of Buckle's inbox is personal but is a calculation of the average number of emails per day per country personal? Is GPS data averaged across millions of people personal?

The first ever data soul auction has certainly raised more questions than answers. Buckles is in a sense ahead of the pack. We are all growing increasingly aware that our personal data is valuable but while we continue to struggle to define what we are willing to accept in exchange for its use, companies are already basing their business models on the contents of our Internet history. Would you accept €350 for your digital soul? You may have to decide on your price sooner than you think.

This article originally published at The Conversation UK.

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Report: Android Malware Is Mining Bitcoin While You Recharge

Some Android users have noticed their phones and tablets are charging slowly and heating up quickly while plugged in. They actually may have a major issue on their hands.

A new strain of malware found in various popular apps is reportedly stealing digital currency, taxing the device's processor and battery while it charges, according to a researcher at antivirus firm Trend Micro. It's believed the malware has affected "thousands of devices."

The malware — called ANDROIDOS_KAGECOIN.HBT — has been detected in Android apps coming from the Google Play store, including Songs, Football Manager Handheld and TuneIn Radio.

"This malware uses a victim’s phone resources to 'mine' crytpocurrencies like Bitcoin," Christopher Budd, Trend Micro's threat communications manager, told. "In essence, the victim’s phone is put to work to make money for the attacker."

The malware could result in shorter battery life, increased wear and tear and lead to a shorter device lifespan. Budd said users should uninstall the affected apps immediately.

"This show that mobile is becoming as dangerous — if not more dangerous than the PC. Malware focused on cryptocurrency has been a problem on the PC-platform for some time and PC-based threats are now migrating to the mobile platform."

The apps were infected with CPU mining code from an Android cryptocurrency mining app. To hide the code, the cybercriminal modified the Google Mobile Ads portion of the app, the report said.

"Clever as the attack is, whoever carried it out may not have thought things through. Phones do not have sufficient performance to serve as effective miners," a Trend Micro researcher said in a blog post. "Users will also quickly notice the odd behavior of the miners — slow charging and excessively hot phones will all be seen, making the miner’s presence not particularly stealthy. Yes, they can gain money this way, but at a glacial pace."

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World's Most Advanced Diving Suit Could Lead to a Cure for Cancer

Phil Nuytten's newest diving suit may as well have been invented by Tony Stark. At six and a half feet long, and weighing 530 pounds, the aluminum contraption looks more like a Buzz Lightyear ripoff than anything.

Even its name, the "Exosuit," sounds like slang from a science fiction novel.

It's a first-of-its-kind design that lets deep sea divers plunge more than 1,000 feet underwater, all the while maintaing surface level pressure. The state-of-the-art rotary joints throughout the arms and legs allow divers extreme flexibility and finesse, as well — apparently, enough to pick up a dime.

This July, researchers are using the suit to study bioluminescent organisms deep within the Atlantic Ocean. Due to their extreme depths, the creatures were previously only attainable via remote instruments or trawl nets. Now, scientists will be able to use the Exosuit and observe them up close in their natural habitats.

The ultimate goal is to collect the organisms' unique, fluorescent proteins and use them in future studies about cancer detection, spinal cord injuries and the overall makeup of the human brain.

Cousteau says the upcoming fieldwork in July is only the beginning of great scientific advancements. In addition to the bioluminescent research, he says, the Exosuit has big potential for helping divers shoot underwater documentary films and discovering new species. Marine and biology education for the next generation could be drastically changed.

"This is a dream come true for divers and marine scientists everywhere," he says. "It's opening a door to a new layer of the ocean. We can only imagine what we'll find."

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Humans Account for Less Than 40% of Global Web Traffic

If you own or manage a website, you probably refer to analytics to track performance, and help you strategize. It may surprise you, however, that 61.5% of all web traffic around the world comes from bots — both good and bad.

According to a recent report from Incapsula, a cloud-based application delivery platform, less than 40% of global web traffic comes from humans. In fact, 31% of traffic comes from search engines and other "good bots," while the rest comes from malicious bots.

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NASA Wants to 3D Print Equipment in Space

The newest adopter of 3D printing isn't some hobbyist in a basement — it's NASA.

The agency is already building some of its customized spacecraft and instrument parts using 3D printing, and someday soon, astronauts might even make tools and replacement by 3D printing them in space.

NASA's Space Technology Mission Directorate has launched several programs to create prototypes of tools for current or future missions using 3D printing, or additive manufacturing, a manufacturing technique that uses Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models to build objects layer-by-layer out of plastic, metal or other materials.

"With additive manufacturing, we have an opportunity to push the envelope on how this technology might be used in zero gravity — how we might ultimately manufacture in space." LaNetra Tate, the advanced-manufacturing principal investigator for the directorate's Game Changing Development Program said in a statement.

NASA's Goddard Spaceflight Center in Greenbelt, Md., has already flown a 3D printed battery case on a sounding-rocket mission test, and Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., used 3D-printed components for the J-2X and RS-25 rocket engines. Marshall is also working with the Silicon Valley start-up Made In Space, which plans to fly a 3D printer to the International Space Station in October.

"We're not driving the additive manufacturing train, industry is," Ted Swanson, the assistant chief for technology for the Mechanical Systems Division at Goddard said in a statement. "But NASA has the ability to get on-board to leverage it for our unique needs."

NASA is part of a team of government agencies investing in a public-private partnership called America Makes (formerly the National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute) whose goal is to incorporate 3D printers into mainstream U.S. manufacturing.

"This effort really goes beyond one center," Matt Showalter, who is overseeing Goddard's various 3D printing efforts, said in a statement.

NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., has developed a green manufacturing technique that uses a computer controlled electron-beam gun to build metal structures that could make parts or tools within hours. NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, in collaboration with Aerojet Rocketdyne of West Palm Beach, Fla., recently built and tested an engine injector for the RL-10 rocket.

Meanwhile, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is researching how to build 3D habitats and others structures on other planets using soil, or regolith.

"It's in the national interest to collaborate with other institutions," Showalter said. "This is a powerful tool and we need to look at how we can implement it."

his article originally published at Space.com

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Fingerprint and Eye-Scanning Drones to Make Deliveries in UAE

Amazon drones may make quick deliveries to your house in the future, but the United Arab Emirates government is looking to add similar technology to its skies much sooner — within a year.

The UAE government detailed a prototype of a drone that would deliver official packages and personal documents such as driver's licenses and ID cards right to citizen doorsteps, per a Reuters report on Monday. To keep the cargo secure, the drones would be equipped with fingerprint and retina scanners to make sure they are delivering to the correct recipients.

“The UAE will try to deliver its government services through drones. This is the first project of its kind in the world,” said Mohammed Abdullah Al Gergawi, the Minister of Cabinet Affairs in the UAE government, according to Reuters.

Gergawi said the drones are battery-operated and measure about 1.5 feet. The casing is white and features a UAE emblem.

Drones have been tested in Dubai for the past six months and will likely roll out in the next year, the report said. Eventually, the government plans to make the service available across the country.

But the initiative faces a few challenges. In addition to safety and tech issues, it also must withstand the dessert's summer hear and dust storms.

In December, Amazon announced that it would send a million flying drones into the air to deliver purchases through an initiative called Amazon Prime Air. Although the company said it is anticipating a 2015 rollout, it is still awaiting FAA approval, which could take years.

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This Is the World's Top-Earning App

Line's active user count might be an enigma, but the latest edition of the App Annie Index shows outside of games, Line was the top earning app and publisher in the world in 2013.

Line ranked ninth in the list of most downloaded publishers in the world. It's the sixth most-downloaded app outside of games.

According to the report, Japan surpassed the US as the top country in terms of app revenue, driven largely by games on Google Play. That means Line's home market likely helped push it to the top of the highest earners list.

Within Japan, Line's game lineup took seven of the top ten highest earning mobile game spots, beaten only by fellow Japanese game Puzzles and Dragons. Line and Line Camera are the two most-downloaded apps in the country outside of games.

The popular Japanese messaging app and social platform might well be making more money than any other chat app out there, as well.

The hole in App Annie's data, however, is WeChat, which started monetizing from stickers, games, and in-app payments last year. App Annie pulls its data from Google Play and the Apple App Store, which means its stats for Chinese Android apps are likely skewed. Google Play is seldom used in China because it can't be installed on most phones sold within the mainland. Much like Line's mammoth revenues likely originate from Taiwan and Japan, WeChat's likely originate primarily from mainland China. So while both apps are technically top earners globally, they remain regional kings in a fragmented global space.

Here's a few other interesting observations from the App Annie Index:

> Japanese publisher GungHo Online and its game Puzzles and Dragons are the top-earning publisher and app in the world, respectively (merchandising not included).

> South Korea bumped the UK off the podium to be the third-highest earning country in app revenue.

> China's Alipay was the second most-downloaded payment app in the world, despite skewed China rankings.

> Outside of games, three Chinese publishers made the top ten most-downloaded app publishers: Sungy Mobile (third), Tencent (eighth), and Baidu (tenth).

Beijing- and US-based analytics firm App Annie is used by over 350,000 apps to track downloads, revenues, and rankings.

This article originally published at Tech in Asia

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The Countries With the Fastest Internet Are All in Asia

Asia is solidifying its place as the world's epicenter for top-speed Internet access, according to the latest research from Akamai Technologies expected to be published later today.

The top four places, ranked by their average peak connection speeds, were in Asia. Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan and Singapore had the speediest broadband, in that order, according to the study that looked at traffic flowing through Akamai's global network from July through September. With Taiwan ranking No. 8, regions or countries in Asia made up half of the top ten.

Nearly all of the major Asia-Pacific markets tracked by Akamai improved their peak connection speeds by at least 12% compared with the previous year. Indonesia was the only one that dropped — a 30% decrease year-over-year to 9.7 megabits per second, putting the country at 115th on the list. India is the only major market in Asia that came in behind Indonesia, with an average peak speed of 9 Mbps. China's 11.3 Mbps average wasn't enough to break into the top 100, either.

People in Asia are certainly taking advantage of the fast connections. Singapore, Japan and South Korea were among the top five countries with the highest mobile-broadband penetration in 2012, according to a report from the International Telecommunication Union, an agency of the United Nations. Each of those countries exceeded 100 mobile-data connections per 100 inhabitants, which suggests people are using multiple connected devices.

The concentration of high-speed Internet in Asia could have positive economic effects that reverberate throughout the region.

"Internet – and particularly broadband Internet – has become a key tool for social and economic development, and needs to be prioritized, even in the world’s poorest nations," ITU Secretary-General Hamadoun Toure said in a statement last year.

Israel, a fast-growing tech startup hub, jumped into fifth place in the Akamai ranking, thanks to a 55% improvement compared with the same period in 2012. The rest of the top 10 was comprised of smaller European countries.

Check out Bloomberg's list of the top 20 places to find the world's fastest Internet based on Akamai's findings. To those in the U.S. and the U.K., don't get your hopes up.

This article originally published at Bloomberg

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