Dancers outside encourage people to enter the coral pink building and spend their money on a hot August night. Rage Against The Machine's Tom Morello croons union songs and strums his guitar. Striking actors and writers whoop and cheer as they line up at the door. "If you're prepared to go to the club tonight, please do so," says a dancer who goes by the stage name Velveeta. She speaks through a megaphone.

You want to be reimbursed for what? People with expense accounts may occasionally get rather "creative" when it comes to the items you ask your employer to reimburse. But an "extramarital travel companion" or trip to a strip club just might be pushing things a bit too far. Those were two of the most outrageous charges flagged by AppZen, which builds AI platforms for the business folks who manage and monitor corporate finances. AppZen's AI examined millions of aggregated, anonymized expense report data from December of last year, seeking to identify trends in unauthorized out-of-policy expenses submitted to travel T&E ("travel & expense") departments during the holidays.

One employee traveling for work checked his dog into a kennel and billed it to his boss as a hotel expense. Another charged yoga classes to the corporate credit card as client entertainment. A third, after racking up a small fortune at a strip club, submitted the expense as a steakhouse business dinner. These bogus expenses, which occurred recently at major U.S. companies, have one thing in common: All were exposed by artificial intelligence algorithms that can in a matter of seconds sniff out fraudulent claims and forged receipts that are often undetectable to human auditors -- certainly not without hours of tedious labor. AppZen, an 18-month-old AI accounting startup, has already signed up several big companies, including Amazon, International Business Machines, Salesforce.com and Comcast, and claims to have saved its clients $40 million in fraudulent expenses.

One employee traveling for work checked his dog into a kennel and billed it to his boss as a hotel expense. Another charged yoga classes to the corporate credit card as client entertainment. A third, after racking up a small fortune at a strip club, submitted the expense as a steakhouse business dinner. These bogus expenses, which occurred recently at major U.S. companies, have one thing in common: All were exposed by artificial intelligence algorithms that can in a matter of seconds sniff out fraudulent claims and forged receipts that are often undetectable to human auditors--certainly not without hours of tedious labor. AppZen, an 18-month-old AI accounting startup, has already signed up several big companies, including Amazon.com Inc., International Business Machine Corp., Salesforce.com

Technology companies have'disrupted' the way we shop, communicate, travel and do just about everything in our daily lives. Now, a pair of robot strippers have their eyes set on disrupting your next lap dance. The android adult entertainers, dubbed the'Robo Twins,' grabbed headlines earlier this month when they performed in a Las Vegas gentleman's club at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show. This weekend, the Robo Twins are making an appearance in New York City when they perform Friday and Saturday night at the Sapphire 39 strip club in midtown Manhattan. The famous'Robo Twins' made their first US appearance in Las Vegas at CES 2018. This weekend, they'll be on stage at an NYC strip club in midtown Manhattan.

It's 2018 and robots are already driving cars, writing symphonies, and even penning news stories like this one. Now, apparently, our silicon friends are going to start stripping for us, too. According to the New York Post, a Las Vegas strip club will feature a pair of android dancers on the poles in honor of the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show this week. The robot strippers are more of a publicity stunt than an actual attempt to be titillating, since they have the heads of security cameras and look like bad Banksy graffiti come to life. But the Sapphire Gentlemen's Club apparently figures it'll be a fun way to bring in some folks from CES this year.

I'd had a handful of clumsy threesomes in college, but nothing compared to the wall-to-wall sex fest I had in mind. My encounters with role-playing games were similarly limited. I'd been party to a couple of rounds of D&D in high school because the dungeon master smoked us out and bought us beer, but 15-plus years later I couldn't even begin to tell you what to do with a 12-sided die. So when I heard about the Red Light Center, "the world's only FREE Massively Multiplayer, Adult Virtual World," I was cautiously optimistic. I'd come across Red Light Center during my "first-hand quest for the future of sex."