AI, chatbots, and augmented reality lead the top tech trends of the week

June Wan/ZDNET In week two of the ZDNET Innovation Index, artificial intelligence and especially generative AI are leading the list, again. That’s clearly not going to shock you and we should certainly expect that trend to continue since there’s more news, interest, and investment in AI than any other topic in tech right now.  If … Read more

Facebook And Instagram Go Down Simultaneously, Outage Trends On X

Around 10:00 AM EST, the social media platforms Facebook and Instagram went down simultaneously around the world. Both social media sites belong to the same parent company, Meta. Users flocked to Twitter, now known as simply X, to share their grief and to see if that platform had also been affected by the sudden outage. … Read more

Delays, deals, nepo babies, trends and vote rigging: Five takeaways from Pakistan’s elections

LAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistan held parliamentary election l ast Thursday, with 44 parties fighting for a share of 266 seats in the National Assembly, or lower house of parliament. A further 70 seats have been reserved for minorities and women. If no party wins a majority of 169 seats, the one with the biggest share … Read more

Super Bowl 58 National Anthem odds, trends: Reba McEntire has long history of singing the Anthem

In the lead-up to Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas on Sunday, Feb. 11, there will be myriad things you can bet on, from straight moneyline bets and point spreads to player props, like the over/under on how many yards Brock Purdy will throw for or how many catches Travis Kelce will make.  But it … Read more

Transportation tech trends at CES 2024, another micromobility merger and Waymo robotaxis hit the highway

The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click TechCrunch Mobility — to receive the newsletter every weekend in your inbox. Subscribe for free. Hi folks, I’m back from CES 2024 and ready to share what I saw and heard! But first, big changes are coming to this weekly transportation … Read more

‘Tipsy For Gypsy’ Trends On TikTok After Gypsy Rose Blanchard’s Release

Gypsy Rose Blanchard-Anderson is a free woman, and fans are poppin’ bottles as they get ‘Tipsy for Gypsy!’ The prison release of Gypsy Rose is uniting the country as social media users are coming together, throwing parties for the 32-year-old. The phrase ‘Tipsy for Gypsy’ is becoming a phenomenon as people are using it as … Read more