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Fast Company Rose Pastore	China To Install Police Officers At Alibaba, Tencent To Enforce Web Censorship The police officers will be looking for evidence of "illegal Internet activity," China's deputy minister of public security told the Financial Times.
Fast Company Neal Ungerleider	Drones Are Delivering Contraband To Prisons As drones become more ubiquitous, prisons are struggling with the question of how to protect against contraband deliveries from the skies.
Chemistry World July 31, 2015 Rebecca Trager	US government science institute's one time police chief linked to campus meth lab A methamphetamine lab was discovery at the NIST's Maryland facility, prompting questions over security at the institute.
Chemistry World July 31, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Stone 'blueprinting' to tackle heritage thefts A combined laser and chemical 'blueprinting' technique could help crackdown on the growing problem of stone theft from heritage sites.
Chemistry World July 30, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Big business backs White House on climate change Thirteen of the US's largest companies, including Google, Apple, Microsoft, Coca-Cola and Wal-Mart, have pledged to slash their carbon footprints.
Chemistry World July 28, 2015 Matthew Gunther	US government uncovers safety failings at nuclear lab Safety failings at the Los Alamos National Laboratory have been described as 'unsatisfactory' by the US government.
Fast Company Daniel Terdiman	IBM: Data Centers Could Cool Themselves With Their Own Waste Heat The centers, which use tremendous amounts of energy, will become far more efficient if "waste heat" generated by churning data centers can be converted into cool air.
Fast Company Rose Pastore	Elon Musk, Stephen Hawking Warn Of Potentially Devastating "AI Arms Race" The Future Of Life Institute, founded by Skype cofounder Jaan Tallinn and MIT cosmologist Max Tegmark, has published an open letter warning that artificially intelligent weapons could be in use within a decade, and could have devastating effects.
Chemistry World July 24, 2015 Emma Stoye	EU bans endocrine disruptor from textile imports The EU banned the use of NPEs in textile manufacture several years ago, but the latest decision prevents companies importing NPE-containing textiles that have been manufactured elsewhere.
Chemistry World July 24, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Controversial pesticide ban temporarily lifted in UK The UK government has temporarily lifted a ban on the use of the controversial pesticide neonicotinoids, even though there is still an EU-wide moratorium on the chemical's usage.
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