No one can tell the future with 100 percent certainty, but Pinterest believes it has insights into what we will be wearing, doing, and eating in 2022.
The company combed through millions of searches to determine the top trends next year for its annual Pinterest Predicts report, which it said boasts an 80 percent accuracy rate. Its finds included the resurgence of goth fashion, decorating your home with your pandemic pet in mind, and the rise of "alt bashes," parties that celebrate life's quirky moments from divorces to empty nesters. People had a penchant for looking for road trips and nighttime vacation activities, as well as curved furniture. And, wellness was top of mind, whether that was working on interpersonal relationships or understanding how to communicate about our bodies.
Pinterest head of core research Larkin Brown joined Cheddar News' Michelle Castillo to discuss this year's report.
The chief suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway has admitted he beat the young Alabama woman to death on a beach in Aruba after she refused his advances. New details in the killing emerged Wednesday as Joran Van der Sloot pleaded guilty to extorting Holloway's mother, resolving a case that has captivated the public’s attention for nearly 20 years.
The trial of a Fugees rapper, who was convicted this year in multimillion-dollar political conspiracies, stretched across the worlds of politics and entertainment — and now the case is touching on the tech world with arguments that his defense attorney bungled the case, in part, by using an artificial intelligence program to write his closing arguments.
Israel said Wednesday that it will allow Egypt to deliver limited quantities of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the first crack in a 10-day siege on the territory. Palestinians reeled from a massive blast at a Gaza City hospital that killed hundreds the day before and grew increasingly desperate as food and water supplies ran out.
A 4000-year-old slab of rock is being dubbed a treasure map for archaeologists. The rock was found in 1900 at the site of an ancient tomb in northwestern France and it was declared Europe's oldest known map in 2021.
Hundreds of people gathered for a vigil honoring a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy who was stabbed to death over the weekend by his family's landlord in an apparent hate crime.
