Society

A guide to how Instagram is now sharing your location and how to stop it.

The death of a baby girl at a Melbourne home in a ‘freebirthing’ tragedy could have been prevented, the coroner has ruled. 

Anthony Albanese has dismissed calls to water down copyright laws to benefit artificial intelligence as a key government adviser in the field calls for urgent regulation to deal with problems already arising.

MARK RILEY: It’s clunky, flawed and late. But this law might be the best chance we have to protect kids before the next algorithm finds them.

KATE EMERY: How dare the Productivity Commission float reducing the value of Australia’s creative industries to power big tech’s multi-billion-dollar plagiarism machines.

Almost 15 years after launching, social media giant Instagram has taken pages out of other app’s books and added three new features to their app. 

British lawmaker Mark Sewards released an artificial intelligence prototype of himself to help deal with a backlog of queries from constituents. Some weren’t impressed.

New research has revealed that a worrying amount of Australian children are turning to AI for emotional support.

The findings were contained in a Productivity Commission research paper, which also found that new technology could inject $116 billion into the economy. 

The twin brother of a young woman who died of a preventable cancer after choosing to have coffee enemas instead of conventional treatment has recalled the moment he found out she had died. 

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Oslo wants to parlay the skills of the petroleum industry and its favourable geology into a kind of garbage disposal service for emissions from heavy industry.

Smartraveller issues urgent warning for Aussie travellers about rabies infections in Indonesia, with popular tourist spots identified as red zones for the 100 per cent fatal disease.

From misdiagnosis to treatment struggles, new data reveals the heavy toll migraines take on women, but the support gap is still left unfilled.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: New research suggests that people can lose more weight by avoiding these hugely popular foods.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: NASA has put out a call for commercial interests to establish a nuclear reactor on the Moon. It is, however, not clear what it will power.