The true story behind the 'first picture on the internet'

Thirty years ago today, a computer scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (Cern) in Geneva snapped an image that’s become the stuff of internet legend. It depicts a group of women posing in 60s-style dresses: a parody band made up…

You could soon have 5 Facebook profiles tied to a single account

Facebook is introducing an option for users to have up to five profiles under a single account. On Thursday, Facebook’s parent company Meta announced the product change that would ‘help people tailor their experience based on interests and relationships’ like posting different…

Elephants could hold the key to curing cancer, says new research

With an army of tumour-fighting proteins in their genes, elephants could hold the key to curing cancer, according to new research. The tumour-fighting proteins they carry can destroy mutated cells, say scientists. This could explain why Earth’s largest land animals are over…

Netflix’s next challenge: piracy is back

Media executives could be forgiven for thinking that in era of Shiv Roy, Saul Goodman and Ted Lasso, piracy was a thing of the past. Between 2015 and 2018, the number of Australians pirating movies dropped from a staggering 49 per cent…