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Scientists have created a cybersecurity technology called Shadow Figment that is designed to lure hackers into an artificial world, then stop them from doing damage by feeding them illusory tidbits of success. The aim is to sequester bad actors by captivating them with an attractive--but imaginary--world. The technology is aimed at protecting physical targets--infrastructure such as buildings, the electric grid, water and sewage systems, and pipelines.

* ICFO researchers report in Nature on having achieved, for the first time, entanglement of two multimode quantum memories located in different labs separated by 10 meters, and heralded by a photon at the telecommunication wavelength. * The study has been selected to grace the cover of Nature magazine.

Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology have developed a wirelessly powered relay network for 5G systems. The proposed battery-free communication addresses the challenges of flexible deployment of relay networks. This design is both economical and energy-efficient. Such advances in 5G communications will create tremendous opportunities for a wide range of sectors.

Researchers at Brigham Young University have built a new analog-to-digital converter (ADC) -- a tiny piece of technology present in almost every electronic piece of equipment that converts analog signals (like a radio wave) to a digital signal -- with record-breaking power efficiency. The ADC consumes only 21 milli-Watts of power at 10GHz for ultra-wideband wireless communications.

The Cybersecurity Laboratory of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) has enhanced its cyber attack integrated analysis platform "NIRVANA Kai" to support the Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6), the successor to IPv4. NIRVANA Kai has succeeded in real-time visualization of packets flowing in the vast address space of IPv6 for the first time in the world. It is expected to be useful for security measures for more diverse and extensive networks.