Houston's City Council on Wednesday updated one local ordinance to specifically ban individuals from having sex with an "anthropomorphic device," a device that resembles a human being, at a sexually-oriented business.

Biologist Gregory Bulte says he's been studying the mating habits of the northern map turtle for about 15 years, but the turtles are skittish and hard to observe because they mate on the bottom of lakes.

A new report says that rapidly advancing technologies have already led to the creation of "android love dolls" capable of performing 50 automated sexual positions.