An expert on artificial intelligence predicts that by 2050, human will start having sex robots, which by that time, "will be nearly indistinguishable from real people. "In his book, Sex With Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot relationships, David Levy states, "Great sex on tap for everyone, 24/7. What's not to like?"

A group of award-winning Czech artists are facing prison terms for hacking into a TV weather broadcast to air footage of a nuclear explosion. All six members of the artist group, Ztohoven have been named in the complaint filed by Czech Television after the group hacked their Panoram program last June and interrupted their airing of peaceful scenes of the local countryside by video clips to make it appear as if a nuclear bomb had been blasted.

Mobile phone use, while driving, slows down vehicular speed by about 2 miles per hour, according to a new study released by David Strayer, a psychology professor at the University of Utah. "The distracted driver tends to drive slower and have delayed reactions," Strayer found. "People kind of get stuck behind that person and it makes everyone pay the price of that distracted driver. "

Thieves in Hungary have made off with an entire riverside artificial beach that had 6,000 cubic meters of sand, beach huts, shops and furniture. Cross-border thieves are to be suspected because at part of the Schengen zone there is no border controls between Hungary and other EU states. Hungarian authorities also believe that the stolen material has been shipped across the border to be sold. Land-locked Hungary doesn't have beaches; hence tons of sand were used to make the riverside as real as possible. But managers who cleaned up and covered the leisure park for winter were taken aback to discover that thieves had carted off 6,000 cubic meters of sand and playground rides, huts and even the wooden shops.

A woman managed to escape from a house fire in the nick of time, thanks to the warning from her dog. Cathy Minnig of Eagan, Minn. was exercising on the treadmill located at the basement of her home Wednesday, noticed her Labrador puppy, Riley, jumping up and down the couch, and acting in an unusual manner. Minnig, who was listening to her iPod during the time, took of her headphones to hear the sounds of fire alarms.