Attitude's Prince; Lady Draft; O Gender-Neutral Canada; WHO Gag; Twitter Suspends Freedom; BOFA Lightens Overhead; U.S. Talks Israeli Defense Aid; Iran's Expanding Oil Export; Ancient Throne or Water Basin?; Whistler's Ammo; Let the Cars Figure it Out; Robot Escaped; Deep Learning Reality Check; Britain's Feeble Space Program; Saturn Ring Disruption; Obama and Dalai Hang; and Zukerberg's Thought

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.

Human Avoidance; Say What?; Suing Saudis; and Egypt's Push for Peace

As I promised yesterday: lists will be very short the next few days because of a heavy work schedule :) Thanks for stopping by!

Robotics

Robots Learn How to Make Friends and Influence People technologyreview

...researchers have developed an algorithm that could give robots the ability to deftly maneuver through spaces packed with unpredictable humans.

US Glitch; Accommodate or...; SSM Acceptance Rising; Signing the Gals Away; The Synthetic Human Project; Origami Robot With a Purpose; Hyundai's Iron Man; Bio-Glass; Magnetic Explosions; Islam-land; Turkey's Anti-Terror Problem; Entitled

Of course today we have the government's bathroom...policy. Also, the US is trying to explain a second video 'glitch'. And if those stories aren't enough, check out the meeting held earlier this week to talk about creating a completely synthetic human genome.

US Goverment

State Department keeps saying that erased video of tough question from Fox News reporter was a ‘glitch’ washingtonpost

Undercovered media story of the week: Fox News correspondent James Rosen revealed that video of him asking a tough question of a State Department spokesperson disappeared from the agency’s video archive. Poof! Where the exchange once existed, a flash of white light replaced it.

At issue was Iran. Let’s turn back the clock. In February 2013, Rosen pressed then-State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland on whether the United States was carrying on “secret, bilateral” discussions with Iranian leaders. No, Nuland said.

What I find interesting, and why I'm relaying this, is there was another video 'glitch' a little over a month ago: OBAMA CENSORS HOLLANDE'S 'ISLAMIST TERRORISM' REMARK (if you can handle David Wood's particularly sarcastic brand of apologetics, he has a good layered verion of that glitched, then magically found, videos on YouTube that really calls into question the 'glitch')