If you listened to Stephen Fry's recent podcast, it might have left you puzzled. The recording of MS Singh's The Missing Lines cut off after just two minutes and 48 seconds – leaving the next nine chapters in silence. But this was no mistake; it was a trick to raise awareness for the people who go missing every 90 seconds. This isn't the first time a podcast has been used as a stunt. Joe Lycett recently announced Turdcast – a podcast in which celebrities talk about their poo, such as Gary Lineker and his great pitch poo at the 1990 World Cup.

Ashley Madison chief strategy officer Paul Keable insists people would be cheating whether or not the controversial'dating' site existed. Gen Z appears to be more comfortable with the concept of non-monogamy than previous generations, according to controversial online "dating" service Ashley Madison. The polarizing Ashley Madison, which caters to people looking to cheat on their partners and uses the slogan "Life is short. Have an affair," said that Gen Z is the top age group to sign up for their scandalous product and accounted for 40% of new members in 2022. To understand why so many members of Gen Z, defined as those 18-29 years old, are joining the pro-adultery site, the company surveyed their Gen Z members as well as those ages in the general population across 10 countries via YouGov.

Ashley Madison chief strategy officer Paul Keable insists people would be cheating whether the controversial dating site existed. EXCLUSIVE – Florida residents might want to keep a close eye on their spouses this winter. Controversial online dating service Ashley Madison, which caters to married people and uses the slogan "Life is short. Have an affair," examined where members reside to determine "hotspots across the world when it comes to adulterous behavior." Keable explained that millions of single Americans look for companionship during the cold winter months, which is often dubbed "cuffing season."

Difficult co-workers who defy authority are more likely to cheat on their partners, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Texas discovered the correlation after studying the records of police officers, financial advisers, white-collar criminals and senior executives who used the Ashley Madison marital infidelity website. The data suggests a strong connection between people's actions in their personal and professional lives. They found that Ashley Madison were more than twice as likely to engage in corporate misconduct. Researchers investigated four study groups totalling 11,235 individuals.

Dating sites and social media platforms promise you romance and friendships. But where does one draw the line as far as data sharing is concerned? Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Twitter – we have all been to these sites, shared insane amounts of data, made friends, and shared some more data. We did not stop there though, as just having friends was not enough. Relationships and marriage on our mind, we opened up our pockets, minds, and hearts to Tinder, Bharat Matrimony, JeevanSaathi, Happn, OkCupid, Hinge...the list goes on.

The parent company of hacked extramarital dating site Ashley Madison has agreed to pay an $11.2m (£8.57m) settlement to US-based users of the site, ending a two-year court battle. Ruby Life Inc agreed to pay the settlement following a number of class-action lawsuits "alleging inadequate data security practices and misrepresentations regarding Ashley Madison". It will pay for, among other things, "payments to settlement class members who submit valid claims for alleged losses resulting from the data breach and alleged misrepresentations as described further in the proposed settlement agreement". The plaintiffs, a collection of three separate class-action lawsuits consolidated together, alleged that the company "misrepresented that they had taken reasonable steps to ensure AshleyMadison.com was secure and that the data breach resulted in the public release of certain personal information contained in AshleyMadison.com accounts and included account information of some users who had paid a fee to delete their information from the AshleyMadison.com Ruby Life inc, formerly known as Avid Life Media, has new leadership following the departure of the executive team in April 2016.

Is there a cantina?Disney reveals plans for a'Star Wars' hotel One of the big announcements from D23 this weekend (beyond details on Star Wars-inspired theme parks due in 2019) is the news that Disney will open a Star Wars resort in Orlando. The hotel itself will be filled with familiar-looking aliens, while the windows will appear to look out into space. Basically, it sounds like Disney is extending the interactivity you typically find in its theme-park experiences with one of its resort hotels. And there's a'Toy Story' tie-in'Kingdom Hearts 3' has a release date: 2018 Square Enix made an appearance at D23 and dropped off a new trailer for its next Kingdom Hearts game that revealed its heroes will visit the world of Toy Story. Also, the release window has been narrowed down to 2018.

It seemed like such a simple thing. Yet another company had suffered a data breach, leaking its customers' private information all over the interwebs. You've probably been subject to such a leak yourself. This one was a bit different because it involved robots. Okay, nothing so dramatic as clanking mechanical men, but "bots" in the sense of automated software agents that converse with actual humans.

At what point does a robot become more than just a vessel for satisfying a human's needs? That's one of the many questions posed by the new HBO series Westworld, based on that other Michael Crichton story about a theme park in which the android attractions--who are designed to be fucked and killed--rise up against their creators. The series, which premiered Sunday evening, is science fiction, combined with throwback 1880s Americana period pastiche, and boasts a bordello filled with beautiful, enthusiastic robot whores who will toss back whiskey and slap your face during a threesome. In the original 1978 movie, there is a distinct divide between the robots' intelligence and ours, but the speculative technology that animates the story has made significant strides since Crichton's time. Today, we're closer than ever to being able to buy or rent the company of artificially intelligent machines, and ones we might believe could love us back. Sexual product technology has made some interesting progress in 2016.