Society
Prince William appears on cover of gay magazine Attitude theguardian
The second-in-line to the throne appears in the July issue of Attitude magazine, discussing the mental health implications of homophobic, bi-phobic and transphobic bullyings.
Senate approves women registering for the draft cnn v
The Senate overwhelmingly passed a $602 billion defense bill Tuesday that included an amendment that would require women to register for the draft -- also known as the selective service -- for the first time in history.
O Canada bill championed by Mauril Bélanger, MP with ALS, advances to final vote cbc.ca v
Bill C-210 changes the line "in all thy sons command" to "in all of us command," making the English lyrics of the national anthem gender neutral.
WHO
Professor says WHO tried to 'gag' him over Olympics decision on Zika virus theage.au
An emergency committee concluded on Tuesday the individual risks of contracting the virus in transmission areas were the same regardless of whether mass gatherings were taking place, and could be contained by good public health measures.
But the Canadian professor whose concerns about Zika at the Olympics precipitated the WHO's deliberations has accused the health agency of gagging committee members who disagreed with the verdict on the virus.
Censorship
Twitter briefly suspended the right-wing writer Milo Yiannopoulous [Breitbart] businessinsider
For around 30 minutes users trying to visit his profile were met with the message "Error: The account you are trying to view has been suspended." The account has now been restored.
Banking
Here's Why Bank of America Is Slashing Up to 8,400 Jobs fortune
The Charlotte-based banking giant has seen fewer and fewer consumers in their physical branches, contributing to the closure of nearly 1,200 of the bank’s offices since the end of 2010, according to data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Consumer banks have been adopting digital strategies—making face-to-face contact with a teller less relevant.
Also see Bank of America plans more job cuts v
Israel
U.S. signals accommodation of Israeli terms on defense aid reuters
However, Netanyahu's acting national security adviser, Jacob Nagel, made clear agreement was not a given. Israeli officials have hinted that, if the disputes persist, they might await the next U.S. president in hope of getting a better MOU.
Iran
Iran-China Oil Terminal to Broaden Exports, Output Yet to Reach Potential sputniknews
The terminal will store light, heavy and ultra-heavy fractions of crude oil produced in Iran's West Karoun oil fields. The $550-million project's first stage will see the building of storage facilities with a 10-million barrel capacity, with its sea terminal large enough to accommodate tankers of up to 140 meters (450 feet) deep.
Archealogy
Archaeologist says he's found part of throne of ancient Greek kings foxnews
He told a press conference in Athens that the royal throne was among sections of the hilltop palace that collapsed during an earthquake around 1200 B.C.
Greek Culture Ministry officials have distanced themselves from the identification, citing a separate study that ruled the chunk to be part of a stone basin.
Pierced Roman sling-bullets whistled when hurled thehistoryblog
When Dr. John Reid of the Trimontium Trust secured a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund to survey and dig the site, his team found a third type: a small oblong in which a hole had been drilled on one side. The type III bullets weigh 20 grams (type I goes up to 60 grams) and the holes are just .5 mm in diameter. They are all the same standard size.
Drilling holes in cast lead is time and labour-intensive for a projectile that is going to be thrown and almost certainly lost. It also lightens the ball which means it will cause less damage in a direct hit. Reid at first considered whether the holes might have been used to deliver poison, a form of early chemical warfare, but his brother had a better idea.
Autonomous Vehicles
Don’t worry, self-driving cars are likely to be better at ethics than we are vox w!
The stories all pose the same basic questions: What sort of ethical choices will autonomous vehicles make, when forced to make them? More importantly, who decides? Is it up to the engineers who program the software? Does the public get a vote? Or will we let the cars themselves figure it out?
I'm a fan of that last option: Let the cars figure it out.
Robotics
Robot escaped from the testing ground en.promo-bot.ru p
Testing involves testing of the autonomous movement of the robot, this robot was not carried under control. At one of the stages of the testing our engineer, who left the office and opened the landfill gates, forgot to close them. The robot, did not seeing any obstacle, quietly left testing field, he drove fifty meters, entered the roadway and stopped, because its battery was dead. We discovered the disappearance after about 40 minutes. The engineer noticed that the gate is open and saw the robot. By the time, the robot has partially paralyzed traffic as it was standing on one of the lanes. However, some drivers slowed down on purpose are to look at the robot.
AI
Deep Learning Isn’t a Dangerous Magic Genie. It’s Just Math wired
As companies like Google and Facebook and Microsoft continue to push this technology into everyday online services—and the world continues to marvel at AlphaGo, Google’s Go playing super-machine—the pundits often describe deep learning as an imitation of the human brain. But it’s really just simple math executed on an enormous scale.
Space
Rejoin the space race or fall further behind, MPs warn Britain rt
In a report on the country’s space and satellite industries, the House of Commons Science and Technology committee found three-quarters of the UK Space Agency’s spending is channeled through the European Space Agency (ESA) – and insists more should be spent in the UK to allow the industry to grow.
'Jet' disrupts one of Saturn's rings wyff4
Although it might look like a bit of smudgy celestial mischief, neither Pandora nor any of Saturn's other moons is to blame for a recent disruption of one of the planet's rings, according to NASA. Considering that the gas giant has 53 moons in orbit (and nine other moons awaiting confirmation), scientists monitoring NASA's Cassini spacecraft were curious.
False Religion
Obama meets with Dalai Lama, angering China cnn
It was Obama's fourth meeting with the Dalai Lama, each of which led to displeasure in Beijing. A White House official said ahead of the talks that the pair would discuss a range of issues, including human rights, but declined to provide any further details about the meeting, which was not open to the press.
Zuckerberg on telepathy: you'll capture a thought and share it with the world theguardian
“You’re going to just be able to capture a thought, what you’re thinking or feeling in kind of its ideal and perfect form in your head, and be able to share that with the world in a format where they can get that,” Zuckerberg said in a live video Q&A broadcast from his Facebook page. “There’s some pretty crazy brain research going on that suggests we might be able to do this at some point.”
This article is only 25% about this, then wanders off into an odd discussion between Zukerberg and Seinfeld.
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