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IBM Research, Hebrew University, and Israels Technion partner to promote AI efforts – CTech

Posted: September 11, 2022 at 1:29 pm

Following collaborations with leading universities like MIT, Stanford, and Oxford University, IBM Research has announced that it will partner with one of Israels leading academic institutions, the Technion, and the Hebrew University, to invest millions of dollars for Ph.D. students to develop AI research. The announcement was officially signed by President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Asher Cohen, Vice President AI and director of IBM Research Lab in Israel Dr. Aya Soffer, Executive Vice President for Research of the Technion Prof. Koby Rubinstein, and Senior Vice President and director of IBM Research, Dr. Dario Gil.

What we really wanted to do was bring a little more structure, and in particular, find a way to engage Ph.D. students in a more focused way on topics that we believe are going to be important for the future of science, explained Dr. Soffer, who spoke to CTech during the Tech, Science, and Sustainable Society Summit, hosted by IBM Research celebrating 50 years of its presence in Israel.

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President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Asher Cohen, Vice President AI and director of IBM Research Lab in Israel Dr. Aya Soffer, Executive Vice President for Research of the Technion, Prof. Koby Rubinstein and Senior Vice President and director of IBM Research, Dr. Dario Gil

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Soffer explained that the partnership, which will be spread over three years, will focus on efforts relating to Scaleable AI as an engine of growth. Specifically, emphasis will be placed on three main areas: NLP, accelerated discovery of drug development, and multi-cloud infrastructure, which Soffer described as the future of cloud.

The Tech, Science, and Sustainable Society Summit took place in Tel Aviv and marked the first time that IBM Research brought together academia, industry, startups, investors, and governments. Described as an active conference, it included a wide range of roundtables where each guest was encouraged to discuss topics relating to AI such as the metaverse, drones, NLP, and cybersecurity. Following opening remarks by Soffer and a keynote speech by Dr. Gil, the audience was then treated to two panels exploring the future of AI and quantum computing before splitting into 17 different groups for intimate discussions lasting almost an hour.

Panels were hosted by Soffer and Dr. Alessandro Curioni, IBM Fellow, vice president of Europe and director of the IBM Research lab in Zurich. They included insights from Pitango Venture Capital Co-Founder Chemi Peres, former Israel Innovation Authority CEO Aharon Aharon, and Mellanox Co-Founder Eyal Waldman, among others.

It was beyond all expectations, Soffer said about the event. I was walking around and everyone was sitting at the tables and engaging, its like your vision coming true. We had a vision that this is what it was going to be, and it was just amazing. There were so many deep conversations and a lot of insights came out of it at the end.

The strong belief in collaboration was the inspiration for the summit, which aimed to recreate the attitude felt in IBM Research labs. IBM has been present in Israel for 50 years and Soffer herself has been part of the team for 23 years. The relationship with the Technion started during the very early days of its time in the country, and so the new partnership represents somewhat of a full circle for the company. IBM Research also has partnerships with Ben-Gurion University in the field of cybersecurity.

The combination of a leading technology company like IBM together with our excellent researchers is a combination that provides an optimal response to the information revolution and the computational revolution, said President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Asher Cohen, in a statement. Executive Vice President for Research of the Technion, Prof. Koby Rubinstein added: In recent years, the Technion has been conducting in-depth and extensive activity in AI in a variety of fields. The collaboration with IBM, which will be led by researchers engaged in the field, will be a force multiplier for research and development in the field.

IBMs research laboratory is based in Haifa and represents its largest outside the U.S. It employs hundreds of researchers in a variety of fields such as AI, hybrid cloud, quantum computing, blockchain, healthcare, and IoT. It fosters relationships with various academic institutions and partners in Israel and abroad.

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Keysight World: Innovate to Spotlight Emerging Technologies and Trends – Business Wire

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SANTA ROSA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that delivers advanced design and validation solutions to help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, will showcase emerging technology trends and provide actionable insights for innovators looking to advance their engineering innovation in 5G and 6G, electric and autonomous vehicles, quantum computing and systems, and digital twins and artificial intelligence (AI). This four-day online vision conference will be held in regions around the world throughout October, November and December 2022.

Every day, technological advancements are reshaping the human experience - from how we live and work, to how we move through the world. There is no doubt that the rapid pace of technology innovation is only going to accelerate and present new challenges and opportunities for all of us, stated Jeff Harris, vice president of Portfolio and Global Marketing at Keysight Technologies. At Keysight World: Innovate, industry leaders, experts, and even a mad scientist or two will share their expertise and predictions to give technology leaders, engineers and innovators a head start on near-term and future developments in technology innovation.

Rapidly evolving technologies, including quantum computing, digital twins, artificial intelligence, electric and autonomous vehicles, as well as 5G and 6G, are powering endless imagination and innovation across all industries. Each day of Keysight World: Innovate will feature an industry expert keynote on near-term trends, a moderated panel discussion on key industry challenges, an industry luminary vision keynote and relevant solution demonstrations. Specific sessions include:

The Next Tier of Deployment, Evolving to 6G: Global 5G deployments are accelerating and scaling digital transformation across sectors. This session explores how to capture the full potential of 5G private networks, the use cases driving their development and implementation and how global 5G deployments are helping to move digital transformation beyond manufacturing and shaping research into 6G.

Building the Foundation for Quantum: Decades-long hype has centered on quantum systems and how they will revolutionize computing. This session looks at the state of quantum technology today, its near and next-term potential and the kinds of problems it will solve.

Advancing Development with Digital Twins and Artificial Intelligence: Digital twins and artificial intelligence are transformative technologies promising to dramatically alter the world. This session examines how digital twins are transforming product development and the changes on the horizon from the growing role of AI in design and manufacturing.

Accelerating the Automotive Revolution: The automotive revolution is re-shaping our world, with innovations in both electric vehicles (EVs) and autonomous vehicles (AVs) continuing at a feverish pace. This session examines the challenges to wide-scale adoption that still lie ahead and explores what the next decade will hold as the industry progresses down the path to full vehicle autonomy.

About Keysight Technologies

Keysight delivers advanced design and validation solutions that help accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysights dedication to speed and precision extends to software-driven insights and analytics that bring tomorrows technology products to market faster across the development lifecycle, in design simulation, prototype validation, automated software testing, manufacturing analysis, and network performance optimization and visibility in enterprise, service provider and cloud environments. Our customers span the worldwide communications and industrial ecosystems, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics markets. Keysight generated revenues of $4.9B in fiscal year 2021. For more information about Keysight Technologies (NYSE: KEYS), visit us at http://www.keysight.com.

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Inside the Gordon Bell Prize Finalist Projects – HPCwire

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The ACM Gordon Bell Prize, which comes with a $10,000 award courtesy of HPC luminary Gordon Bell, is widely considered the highest prize in high-performance computing. Each year, six finalists are selected who represent the pinnacle of outstanding research achievements in HPC. Last month, listings on the SC22 schedule revealed those finalists. Over the last few weeks, HPCwire got in touch with members of the six finalist teams to learn more about their projects.

Last year, for the first time, the Gordon Bell Prize nominees included two projects powered by exascale computing specifically, Chinas new Sunway supercomputer, also known as OceanLight. These research papers, at the time, constituted the most substantively official reveal of the system (which remains unranked). One of those OceanLight-powered papers a challenge to Googles quantum supremacy claim won that years Gordon Bell Prize.

In 2022, OceanLight has exascale-caliber competition: not one but two of the other five finalist projects used the new American exascale supercomputer, Frontier, which launched earlier this year at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL). And, beyond OceanLight and Frontier, previous Top500-toppers Fugaku (RIKEN) and Summit (ORNL) both return to the list under multiple finalist teams, along with Perlmutter (at NERSC, the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center) and Shaheen-2 (at KAUST, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology).

And now: the finalist projects.

This year sees OceanLight return to the stage as the sole supercomputer behind a paper titled 2.5 Million-Atom Ab Initio Electronic-Structure Simulation of Complex Metallic Heterostructures with DGDFT a project involving simulations of millions of atoms that made use of tens of millions of cores on OceanLight.

Abstract: Over the past three decades, ab initio electronic structure calculations of large, complex and metallic systems are limited to tens of thousands of atoms in both numerical accuracy and computational efficiency on leadership supercomputers. We present a massively parallel discontinuous Galerkin density functional theory (DGDFT) implementation, which adopts adaptive local basis functions to discretize the Kohn-Sham equation, resulting in a block-sparse Hamiltonian matrix. A highly efficient pole expansion and selected inversion (PEXSI) sparse direct solver is implemented in DGDFT to achieve O(^1.5) scaling for quasi two-dimensional systems. DGDFT allows us to compute the electronic structures of complex metallic heterostructures with 2.5 million atoms (17.2 million electrons) using 35.9 million cores on the new Sunway supercomputer. In particular, the peak performance of PEXSI can achieve 64 PFLOPS (5 percent of theoretical peak), which is unprecedented for sparse direct solvers. This accomplishment paves the way for quantum mechanical simulations into mesoscopic scale for designing next-generation energy materials and electronic devices.

Per the SC22 schedule, this team includes researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Peking University, the Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology, the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology, the Qilo University of Technology and the University of Science and Technology of China.

Our team is highly excited [to be] nominated for the Gordon Bell Prize finalists as we started preparation for this work since last year, said Qingcai Jiang, a researcher at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), in an email to HPCwire. Our work for the first time achieves plane-wave precision electronic structure calculation for large-scale complex metallic heterostructures containing 2.5 million atoms (17.2 million electrons), and our optimization techniques make our work able to achieve peak performance of 64 PFLOPS (5 percent of theoretical peak), which is unprecedented for sparse direct solvers.

The first of projects powered by Frontier, titled ExaFlops Biomedical Knowledge Graph Analytics, also made use of ORNLs previous chart-topper, Summit, and focuses on large-scale mining of biomedical research literature.

Abstract: We are motivated by newly proposed methods for mining large-scale corpora of scholarly publications (e.g., full biomedical literature), which consists of tens of millions of papers spanning decades of research. In this setting, analysts seek to discover relationships among concepts. They construct graph representations from annotated text databases and then formulate the relationship-mining problem as an all-pairs shortest paths (APSP) and validate connective paths against curated biomedical knowledge graphs (e.g., SPOKE). In this context, we present COAST (Exascale Communication-Optimized All-Pairs Shortest Path) and demonstrate 1.004 EF/s on 9,200 Frontier nodes (73,600 GCDs). We develop hyperbolic performance models (HYPERMOD), which guide optimizations and parametric tuning. The proposed COAST algorithm achieved the memory constant parallel efficiency of 99 percent in the single-precision tropical semiring. Looking forward, COAST will enable the integration of scholarly corpora like PubMed into the SPOKE biomedical knowledge graph.

Per the SC22 schedule, this team includes researchers from AMD, the Georgia Institute of Technology, ORNL and the University of California, San Francisco.

The ability to establish paths between any pair of biomedical concepts with the richness of PubMed in a reasonable time has the potential to revolutionize biomedical research and apply national research funds more effectively, said Ramakrishnan Kannan, group leader for discrete algorithms at ORNL, in an email to HPCwire. The comparison of knowledge encoded within SPOKE, which is largely human-curated, against concept relationships that might be mined automatically from a scholarly database like PubMed will result in faster and automated integration of biomedical information at scale.

According to the team, this project is the first exascale graph AI demonstration to run at over one exaflops. This first demonstration of exascale computation speed will transform the way we currently conduct search in complex heterogeneous knowledge graphs like SPOKE, the research team told HPCwire. Specifically, it will enable a new class of algorithms to be implemented in graphs of unprecedented size and complexity. This will greatly improve the quality of biomedical research inquiry, and accelerate the time to patient diagnosis and care like never before.

The second project to use Frontier: Pushing the Frontier in the Design of Laser-Based Electron Accelerators with Groundbreaking Mesh-Refined Particle-In-Cell Simulations on Exascale-Class Supercomputers. Though the title of the paper which revolved around kinetic plasma simulations winks at its use of Frontier, the team actually used four supercomputers: Frontier, Fugaku (RIKEN), Summit and Perlmutter (NERSC), meaning that this one paper used four of the top seven supercomputers on the most recent Top500 list. In an email to HPCwire, Jean-Luc Vay a senior scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab outlined the science runs of the research, which were conducted on Frontier (up to 8,192 nodes), Fugaku (up to ~93,000 nodes) and Summit (up to 4,096 nodes).

Abstract: We present a first-of-kind mesh-refined (MR) massively parallel Particle-In-Cell (PIC) code for kinetic plasma simulations optimized on the Frontier, Fugaku, Summit, and Perlmutter supercomputers. Major innovations, implemented in the WarpX PIC code, include: (i) a three level parallelization strategy that demonstrated performance portability and scaling on millions of A64FX cores and tens of thousands of AMD and Nvidia GPUs (ii) a groundbreaking mesh refinement capability that provides between 1.5x to 4x savings in computing requirements on the science case reported in this paper, (iii) an efficient load balancing strategy between multiple MR levels. The MR PIC code enabled 3D simulations of laser-matter interactions on Frontier, Fugaku, and Summit, which have so far been out of the reach of standard codes. These simulations helped remove a major limitation of compact laser-based electron accelerators, which are promising candidates for next generation high-energy physics experiments and ultra-high dose rate FLASH radiotherapy.

Per the SC22 schedule, this team includes researchers from Arm, Atos, CEA-Universit Paris-Saclay, ENSTA Paris, GENCI, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and RIKEN.

Plasma accelerator technologies have the potential to provide particle accelerators that are much more compact than existing ones, opening the door to exciting novel applications in science, industry, security and health, Vay explained. Exploiting the most powerful supercomputers in the world to boost the research to make these complex machines a reality is so stimulating to all of us.

It is thrilling for the entire team to be selected as finalist of the Gordon Bell Prize, even for the one of us (Axel Huebl), for whom it is dj vu as he was already a finalist in 2012 with another (PIConGPU) team, Vay added. It is the vindication of years of hard work from the U.S. DOE Exascale Computing Project participants and longstanding collaborators from CEA Saclay in France, coupled to the more recent hard work with colleagues from various labs and private companies in France (Genci, Arm, Atos) and RIKEN in Japan.

The exascale-enabled research only constitutes half the list. Another finalist paper Reshaping Geostatistical Modeling and Prediction for Extreme-Scale Environmental Applications used Shaheen-2 as well as Fugaku.

Abstract: We extend the capability of space-time geostatistical modeling using algebraic approximations, illustrating application-expected accuracy worthy of double precision from majority low-precision computations and low-rank matrix approximations. We exploit the mathematical structure of the dense covariance matrix whose inverse action and determinant are repeatedly required in Gaussian log-likelihood optimization. Geostatistics augments first-principles modeling approaches for the prediction of environmental phenomena given the availability of measurements at a large number of locations; however, traditional Cholesky-based approaches grow cubically in complexity, gating practical extension to continental and global datasets now available. We combine the linear algebraic contributions of mixed-precision and low-rank computations within a tilebased Cholesky solver with on-demand casting of precisions and dynamic runtime support from PaRSEC to orchestrate tasks and data movement. Our adaptive approach scales on various systems and leverages the Fujitsu A64FX nodes of Fugaku to achieve upto 12X performance speedup against the highly optimized dense Cholesky implementation.

Per the SC22 schedule, this team includes researchers from KAUST, ORNL and the University of Tennessee. Perhaps notably, the team also includes Jack Dongarra, one of SC22s keynote speakers.

For our exploratory science runs, and to demonstrate the acceptable accuracy of our algorithmic variations on Cholesky factorization and further manipulation of massive covariance matrices, we used Shaheen-2 at KAUST, explained David Keyes, director of the Extreme Computing Research Center at KAUST, in an email to HPCwire. Shaheen-2 has only 6,192 nodes, so we applied to use Fugaku at RIKEN to scale further and were generously considered by RIKEN. Fugaku has 158,976 nodes, about 25 times more than Shaheen-2, and each node has 48 cores, 1.5 times more than a Shaheen-2 node. However, each Fugaku node is equipped with only 32GB of memory, one-quarter as much as Shaheen-2s 128GB per node, thus only one-sixth as much per core, which required us to make software adaptations.

Entering the Gordon Bell competition was exciting for all of the team members, especially the students and postdocs, Keyes said. It provided an opportunity to run on the worlds second ranked computer. The required algorithmic adaptations to architecture led to improvements in our tools that will be useful at all scales. More importantly, the nomination created excitement with the statistics community since 2022 appears to be the first time after 35 years of the prize that any significant spatial statistics computation, environmental or otherwise, has thus advanced.

The final of Fugakus three appearances among the finalist list comes courtesy of Extreme Scale Earthquake Simulation with Uncertainty Quantification, which used the second-ranked system to advance scientific understanding of earthquakes and fields with similar dynamics.

Abstract: We develop a stochastic finite element method with ultra-large degrees of freedom that discretize probabilistic and physical spaces using unstructured second-order tetrahedral elements with double precision using a mixed-precision implicit iterative solver that scales to the full Fugaku system and enables fast Uncertainty Quantification (UQ). The developed solver designed to attain high performance on a variety of CPU/GPU-based supercomputers enabled solving 37 trillion degrees-of-freedom problem with 19.8 percent peak FP64 performance on full Fugaku (89.8 PFLOPS) with 87.7 percent weak scaling efficiency, corresponding to 224-fold speedup over the state of the art solver running on full Summit. This method, which has shown its effectiveness via solving huge (32-trillion degrees-of-freedom) practical problems, is expected to be a breakthrough in damage mitigation, and is expected to facilitate the scientific understanding of earthquake phenomena and have a ripple effect on other fields that similarly require UQ.

Per the SC22 schedule, this team includes researchers from Fujitsu, the Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, RIKEN and the University of Tokyo.

We are very happy to be selected as finalists, wrote Tsuyoshi Ichimura, a professor with the Earthquake Research Institute at the University of Tokyo, in an email to HPCwire. We believe that this has a great impact in showing that capability computing can contribute to an unprecedented Uncertainty Quantification (UQ).

Last, but certainly not least: Extreme-Scale Many-against-Many Protein Similarity Search, which used the Summit supercomputer to perform protein similarity calculations across hundreds of millions of proteins in just a few hours.

Abstract: Similarity search is one of the most fundamental computations that are regularly performed on ever-increasing protein datasets. Scalability is of paramount importance for uncovering novel phenomena that occur at very large scales. We unleash the power of over 20,000 GPUs on the Summit system to perform all-vs-all protein similarity search on one of the largest publicly available datasets with 405 million proteins, in less than 3.5 hours, cutting the time-to-solution for many use cases from weeks. The variability of protein sequence lengths, as well as the sparsity of the space of pairwise comparisons, make this a challenging problem in distributed memory. Due to the need to construct and maintain a data structure holding indices to all other sequences, this application has a huge memory footprint that makes it hard to scale the problem sizes. We overcome this memory limitation by innovative matrix-based blocking techniques, without introducing additional load imbalance.

Per the SC22 schedule, this team includes researchers from Indiana University, the Institute for Fundamental Biomedical Research, the Department of Energys Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Microsoft, NERSC and the University of California, Berkeley.

In an email to HPCwire, the team stressed the importance of this research area to critical fields. Many-against-many sequence search is the backbone of biological sequence analysis used in drug discovery, healthcare, bioenergy, and environmental studies, they wrote. Our work is perhaps the first [Gordon Bell] finalist for a biological sequence analysis problem, which is surprising because sequence analysis is a perfect supercomputing application due to its data and compute intensive nature.

Our pipeline, PASTIS, performs a novel application of sparse matrices to narrow down the search space and to avoid quadratic number of sequence comparisons. Sparse matrix computations are much harder to map efficiently to modern supercomputing hardware, especially to GPU-equipped supercomputers such as the Summit system we have used in this work. Our approach cuts back the turnaround time from days to minutes in discovering similar sequences in huge protein datasets to complete the subsequent analytical steps in bioinformatics and allow for exploratory analysis of data sets under different parameter settings.

Thats all of them. For those keeping score at home: three finalist teams used Fugaku; three used Summit; two used Frontier; and OceanLight, Perlmutter and Shaheen-2 were each used by one finalist team. Were still watching for the reveal of the finalists for the Gordon Bell Special Prize for High Performance Computing-Based Covid-19 Research, which will be awarded for the third time at SC22. At SC22 itself set to be held in Dallas from November 13-18 the finalists for both Gordon Bell Prizes will present their research ahead of the award ceremony.

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Passkeys, the No-Password Login Tech, Come to iOS 16 on Monday – CNET

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This story is part of WWDC 2022, CNET's complete coverage from and about Apple's annual developers conference.

Apple and Google are updating their phone software and web browsers this year with technology called passkeys that's designed to be easy to use and more secure than passwords.

Passwords are plagued with problems, but tech giants have cooperated to design a practical alternative that reduces vulnerabilities and hacking risks.

With the iOS 16 release on Monday, Apple will introduce support for passkeys, a new logon technology that promises to be more secure than passwords at guarding access to our bank accounts and email.Apple demonstrated passkeysat its Worldwide Developers Conference and said they'll come toiOS 16andMacOS Venturathis fall, and they're coming to Google's Android and to web browsers, too.

Passkeys are as easy -- maybe easier -- to use than passwords. They replace the riot of keystrokes needed for passwords with a biometric check on our phones or computers. They also stop phishing attacks and banish the complications of two-factor authentication, like SMS codes, that strengthen the password system's weaknesses.

Once you set up a passkey for a site or app, it's stored on the phone or personal computer you used to set it up. Services like Apple's iCloud Keychain or Google's Chrome password manager can synchronize passkeys across your devices. Dozens of tech companies developed the open standards behind passkeys in a group called the FIDO Alliance, which announced passkeys in May.

"Now is the time to adopt them," Garrett Davidson, an authentication technology engineer at Apple, said in a WWDC talk about passkeys. "With passkeys, not only is the user experience better than with passwords, but entire categories of security -- like weak and reused credentials, credential leaks, and phishing -- are just not possible anymore."

You'll have to spend a little time on the learning curve before passkeys meet their potential. You'll also have to decide whether Apple, Microsoft or Google is the best option for you.

Here's a look at the technology.

It's a new type of login credential consisting of a little bit of digital data your PC or phone uses when logging onto a server. You approve each use of that data with an authentication step, such as fingerprint check, face recognition, a PIN code or the login swipe pattern familiar to Android phone owners.

Here's the catch: You'll have to have your phone or computer with you to use passkeys. You can't log onto a passkey-secured account from a friend's computer without a device of your own.

Passkeys are synchronized and backed up. If you get a new Android phone or iPhone, Google and Apple can restore your passkeys. With end-to-end encryption, Google and Apple can't see or alter the passkeys. Apple has designed its system to keep passkeys secure even if an attacker or Apple employee compromises your iCloud account.

It's pretty simple. Use your fingerprint, face or another mechanism to authenticate a passkey when a website or app prompts you to set one up. That's it.

These steps show how to log on with passkeys on an Android phone: choose the passkey option, choose the appropriate passkey, and authenticate with a fingerprint ID. Face recognition also is an option on compatible phones.

When using a phone, a passkey authentication option will appear when you try to log on to an app. Tap that option, use the authentication technique you've chosen, and you're in.

For websites, you should see a passkey option by the username field. After that, the process is the same.

Once you have a passkey on your phone, you can use it to facilitate login on another nearby device, like your laptop. Once you're logged in, that website can offer to create a new passkey linked to the new device.

You can use a passkey stored on your phone to log onto another nearby device, like a laptop you're borrowing. The login screen on the borrowed laptop will have an option to present a QR code you can scan with your phone. You'll use Bluetooth to ensure your phone and the computer are close by, then let you use a fingerprint or face ID check on your own phone. Your phone then will communicate with the computer over a secure connection to complete the authentication process.

Passkeys employ a time tested security foundation called public key cryptography for login operation. That's the same technology that protects your credit card number when you type it into a website. The beauty of the system is that a website only has to base its passkey record on your public key, data that's designed to be openly visible. The private key used to set up a passkey is stored only on your own device. There's no database of password data that a hacker can steal.

Another big benefit is that passkeys block phishing attempts. "Passkeys are intrinsically linked to the website or app they were set up for, so users can never be tricked into using their passkey on the wrong website," Ricky Mondello, who oversees authentication technology at Apple, said in a WWDC video.

Using passkeys requires that you have your device handy and be able to unlock it, a combination that offers the protection of two-factor authentication but with less bother than SMS codes. And with passkeys, nobody can snoop over your shoulder to watch you type your password.

Passkeys begin emerging this year.

At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple said it'll bring passkeys to iOS 16 and MacOS Ventura, its major operating system software updates expected this fall. In May, Google will bring passkey support to Android software by the end of 2022 for developer testing, Google authentication leader Mark Risher said. Passkey support should arrive in Chrome and Chrome OS at the same time. Microsoft plans support in Windows in coming months.

Some websites and apps will be eager to update their login software to use passkeys, so they can take advantage of the security benefits. Others will move more slowly. Even if passkeys catch on fast, don't expect passwords to disappear.

It's unlikely you'll be forced to use passkeys while the technology is new and unfamiliar. Websites and apps you already use will likely add passkey support alongside existing password methods.

If you need to log into a friend's computer that doesn't have your passkey, scanning a QR code will let your phone handle the authentication process.

When you sign up for a new service, passkeys may be presented as the preferred option. Eventually, they may become the only option.

Not exactly. Although passkeys are anchored to one company's technology suite, you'll be able to bridge out of, say, Apple's world to use passkeys with Microsoft's or Google's.

"Users can sign in on a Google Chrome browser that's running on Microsoft Windows, using a passkey on an Apple device," Vasu Jakkal, a Microsoft leader of security and identity technology, said in a May blog post.

Passkey advocates also are working on technology to let people migrate their passkeys from one tech domain to another, Apple and Google say.

Password managers play an increasingly important role in generating, storing and synchronizing passwords. But passkeys will likely be anchored to your phone or personal computer, not your password manager, at least in the eyes of tech giants like Google and Apple.

That could change, though.

"We expect a natural evolution to an architecture that allows third-party passkey managers to plug in, and for portability among ecosystems," Google's Risher said.

He anticipates that passkeys will evolve to lower barriers between ecosystems and to accommodate third-party passkey managers. "This has been a discussion point since early in this industry push."

Indeed, password manager Dashlane is testing passkey support and plans to release it broadly in coming weeks. "Users can store their passkeys for multiple sites and benefit from the same convenience and security they already have with their passwords," the company said in a blog post.

1Password maker AgileBits just joined the FIDO Alliance, andDashLane and LastPass already are members.

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End-of-summer-shopping: Costco items to stock up on – Las Vegas Review-Journal

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The calendar still says summer, but the start of school and football season means were in a time of transition. While we spent the summer stocking up on refreshing juice pops, T-shirts and pool toys, what well buy this fall is different.

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Costco also is in that in-between stage, still selling some of summers staples while introducing merchandise for cooler weather and holidays ahead. From lingering school supplies to stuff for the final barbecues of the year to holiday treats, Costco is ready for the change of seasons.

As you start to stock your shelves for colder weather ahead, here are some great deals on the Costco shelves.

Hamburger patties

With summer winding down, its a good time to get all the grilling in that you can, said Julie Ramhold, consumer analyst for DealNews.com. And if youre planning to grill for the beginning of tailgate season, buying in bulk from Costco means having to buy less overall.

Unless you have a tried-and-true secret burger recipe and no other will do, the patties at Costco are solid picks that provide a tasty shortcut. A bag of 18 frozen patties will cost around $28 to $30, depending on whether you opt for Angus chuck or ground sirloin, which works out to about $1.56 to $1.67 each far better than what youll spend at a standard grocery store.

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Gel pens

Back-to-school season is basically over, which means nows a good time to grab extra school supplies before they disappear from shelves, Ramhold said. Costco has a few different types of gel pens that are perfect for students and office workers alike, including a UNI-BALL 12-pack for $12, a 20-pack of Pilot G2 pens for around $16, and a 40-count pack of Zebra retractable pens in various colors for around $10, so buying in bulk is definitely a good way to save.

Cooling Towels

Temperatures may be starting to cool down, but that doesnt mean these items are useless, Ramhold said. For one thing, theyre ideal during workouts, but theyre also useful to have on hand for when next summer rolls around.

Since Costco will sell seasonal items sometimes, theres no guarantee that the 4-pack of Arctic Cool cooling towels will hang around, so grab them while you can. Theyre about $22 for the pack, which is much cheaper than other places that tend to charge around $10 or so for just one cooling towel.

Create a treat pre-built chocolate Halloween house

It isnt too early to start thinking about the fall holidays if something in the aisle grabs your attention at Costco.

Yes, summer isnt quite over, but Costco has seasonal products earlier than the actual holiday, so if you want to take advantage of things like this product, its better to buy them now while theyre still available Ramhold said of the Halloween house. Typically once they sell out, thats it, so dont count on them being restocked.

The great thing about this is that it takes the gingerbread house tradition of winter holidays and turns it into a spooky tradition for Halloween made with chocolate cookies. Its also pre-built, so you dont have to worry about fitting the pieces together and it comes with additional spooky cookies and a full pound of icing and candy to decorate with. Itll also only set you back around $15, which isnt a bad deal at all for all that you get.

Leaf blower

If youre not looking forward to raking and bagging the mass of leaves in your yard this fall, its time for a leaf blower. One of the things Costco is known for is offering items with some extras in a bundle, and thats what they have done with the Greenworks 80V Jet Blower. While the price sounds high at just shy of $300, its packaged with two rechargeable batteries and a charger. At Amazon, the blower is a la carte you buy the tool and the batteries separately, and the cost will well exceed the Costco price.

Starbucks Hot Cocoa Mix

As the nights grow chillier, cuddling up on the couch with a cup of delicious hot cocoa just might sound good. Or, fill a thermos and head to the football game at your local high school. The rich Starbucks mix will make a much better cup than what you can buy at the stadium concession stand. If you and your family consume a lot of hot cocoa, buy it in bulk at Costco, where two 30-ounce cans cost $34.99. Youll pay $21.75 for just one can at Amazon.

Allergy medications

If the end of summer and beginning of fall brings allergy symptoms your way, then its time to stock up on daily allergy meds, Ramhold said. Opt for Costcos Kirkland Signature brand to save even more whether you prefer Zyrtec, Allegra, Flonase or Claritin as Costco has store-brand versions of all of these items.

A bottle of 365 Aller-Tec pills, for instance, is anywhere from $13 to $16, depending on if its on sale, Ramhold added. And thats a years supply if youre the only one taking it. Other meds will vary in price, but all of them are cheaper to buy Kirkland Signatures brand over name brand, and theyre definitely cheaper to buy in bulk than shopping elsewhere.

Laundry soap packets

You can do a load of laundry a day for almost a year with the 350-pack of Nellies Laundry Nuggets premeasured soap packets that you just throw in with the dirty clothes. The giant case costs $85, which sounds steep. But consider how much you spend picking up the laundry packs when you do your weekly grocery shopping.

If you shop at Ralphs in Southern California, for example, youll pay $6 for a 19-count package of All with Stainlifters Free Clear Laundry Detergent Mighty Pacs about 32 cents a load. With the Nellies nuggets, the per-load price is about 24 cents and you wont run out for a long, long time.

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Las Vegas is the number 1 destination for American travelers this fall and the travel industry knows it. Breeze Airways recently launched 8 new non-stop flights from different cities in the US to Sin City, and just a few weeks ago Frontier Airlines also announced 5 new routes with promotional rates starting at just $69.

More travelers are interested in visiting this fascinating destination that has so much to offer, from fascinating buildings and casinos to amazing landscapes and outdoor activities.

Las Vegas can please all kinds of tastes and interests and is the happiest city to vacation in the U.S. in 2022. If you are traveling to Las Vegas this fall, heres what you should know:

This years Las Vegas hotels hidden fees are higher than ever. These extra charges written in fine print range from $40 to $80 per night and can be excused as benefits or perks that are usually included in other hotels like internet services or parking spots.

Before booking a room, make sure you understand all fees included or search for hotels without resort fees. The room might look cheaper in comparison to other options on popular platforms like Booking.com, but at the end of the booking process, when these fees are added, it might actually be the most expensive room in the market. Read carefully!

The extreme summer heat has been extending to September, just a couple of days ago, Las Vegas peaked at 110 degrees. However, forecasts say it will cool down, and a few storms will occur. If you are traveling to Vegas soon, consider clothing for rain and hot weather.

Some travelers believe that the best time to visit Las Vegas is between September and November because the extreme heat is gone. The best weather sets in Octobertemperatures range from 89F to 75F and Novemberfrom 74F to 61F.

There are many important and unique events in Vegas, like Adeles Vegas Show at Caesars Palace which will finally start on November 18. Of course, Las Vegas offers events and shows for all tastes.

Travelers also can visit traditional casinos and museums like Madame Tussauds or the Illumination, but there are seasonal or once-in-a-lifetime events that might be worth the shot. Visitors can see upcoming events at Visit Las Vegas, Las Vegas Calendars, or Eventbrite.

You dont have to lose money on bad bets in the casino to realize that your budget might not be as sufficient as you thought. Travelers will encounter expensive hotels, expensive hidden fees, expensive meals, expensive shows, expensive gambling, and expensive shopping, especially on the Strip.

This is a city of opportunities and visitors can avoid spending money on tourist locations to save a few bucks and also prefer low-budget and yet unique things to do in Vegas like visit the Bellagio Conservatory & Botanical Gardensor even getting last-minute tickets for shows. Also, traditional saving strategies like avoiding holidays, using reward points, and comparing rates are always useful.

You have the perfect weather to make the most out of outdoor activities during fall. Las Vegas has so much more to offer than casinos and night shows. Without the extreme summer heat and still away from the freezing desert winter, its the perfect opportunity to go for a hikethere are great routes at the Valley of Fire State Park, go kayaking, and if you are not that sportif, maybe a helicopter tour around the Grand Canyon?

If there is a show, conference, restaurant, museum, Grand Canyon tour, or activity you absolutely want to do while in Vegas, make that reservation asap! Tickets usually sold out fast for the most popular shows and iconic restaurants are typically full. You might save money by finding alternatives like last-minute tickets, but you risk missing whats important to you.

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In four decades of writing about the Las Vegas criminal underworld and government corruption, investigative reporter Jeff German took on plenty of powerful and dangerous people.

The hard-bitten newsman was once punched by an organized crime associate and received veiled threats from mobsters.

Nothing seemed to faze him as he doggedly went about his work.

So German, 69, characteristically didnt express concern when Clark county public administrator Robert Telles, a virtually unknown politician in charge of an obscure and small government office, took to Twitter last spring to angrily denounce the reporter.

German, who worked for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, had written about bullying and favoritism in the public administrators office and an inappropriate relationship by Telles with a female subordinate.

Authorities say Germans initial investigation and follow-up stories were the motivation for Telles to fatally stab German last week at the reporters home.

DNA at the scene linked Telles to the killing as did shoes and a distinctive straw hat found at his home that matched those worn by a suspect caught on video, investigators said Thursday.

Police arrested Telles on Wednesday after a brief standoff at his home. Telles was hospitalized for what Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo described as non-life-threatening, self-inflicted wounds.

Glenn Cook, executive editor of the Review-Journal, said there was talk within the newspaper about Telles being unhinged but he never made any physical threats against German and the reporter never said he was worried.

He cut his teeth covering the mob, Cook said. Jeff spent over 40 years covering the worst of the worst of Las Vegas. This was a guy who ran down mobsters, wise guys and killers.

Killings of journalists in the US in retaliation for their work are extremely rare. Up until Germans death, eight journalists have been killed in the US since 1992, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The deadliest attack came in 2018. A shooting at the Capital Gazette in Maryland killed five.

Jeffs death is a sobering reminder of the inherent risks of investigative journalism, said Diana Fuentes, executive director of the organization Investigative Reporters & Editors. Journalists do their jobs every day, digging deep to find information the public needs to know and has a right to see.

Telles, a Democrat who apparently had never served in public office until he was elected in 2018, ran a small office that deals with estates and the property of people after they die. Before that he was a lawyer practicing probate and estate law.

Germans reports were about an office mired in turmoil and internal dissension between longtime employees and new hires under Telles. County officials hired a consultant to help oversee the office.

The articles ruined his political career, likely his marriage, and this was him lashing out at the cause, chief deputy clark county district attorney Richard Scow said.

Germans family hailed a loving and loyal brother, uncle and friend who devoted his life to his work exposing wrongdoing in Las Vegas and beyond.

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