Adam

Image via Warner Bros. The long-awaited DC film Black Adam, releasing later this year, will apparently feature the titular character, as portrayed by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, engaging in an epic battle with Aldis Hodge’s Carter Hall, AKA Hawkman. That’s according to a new piece of promo art that has just surfaced online, as shared on Twitter by the account @TheDC_Syndicate. Earlier Friday, two other new Black Adam images also surfaced, featuring members of the Justice Society of America. That includes the…

via DC Films Two new images of Black Adam featuring the Justice Society of America in all their heroic glory have been released. There’s no confirmation yet if these are official images, but they look astonishing nonetheless. The images were posted on Twitter by DCVERSO, the first one depicting Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam inside of his lighting bolt symbol while the JSA surrounds him inside of respective diamond symbols. In the second image, Black Adam stands in the center as the panels next to him feature DC’s…

While reading S Hareesh’s collection of short stories, Adam, translated from the Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil, I repeatedly thought how deficient our literary culture would be minus translations. Not that I didn’t know it before but reading Adam is a reaffirmation. The imagination that Hareesh brings to his renditions, the scope of his characters, their quirks and world views akin to the construction of a mini universe of oddballs is all unthinkable in Indian writing in English or the small cocoon that most of such…

In the pecking order of professional sports, is being a scout considered an undesirable gig? I have no idea. General managers probably take all the credit when the team lands a star in the making, and lay all the blame on scouts when a sure thing flames out. These kinds of grievances are true of any number of professions that don’t have anything near the sex appeal of being able to say you work for an NBA team, but the Netflix movie “Hustle,” starring Adam Sandler and his beard, takes it as a given that the job blows.…

It’s amazing to be able to see a comedic actor expand their talents for a dramatic role. We’ve seen that before like when Jim Carrey was in The Majestic or Steve Carrell in Foxcatcher. Adam Sandler is in that category as well as the dramatic movies that made him so popular included Punch-Drunk Love, Reign Over Me, and Uncut Gems. We can continue to see Adam Sandler make a dramatic movie comeback in the Netflix drama Hustle with his Netflix director coining a name for that transition.Adam Sandler stars and co-produces the…

Here is an underdog sports movie with the longest training montage I think I have ever seen – it pretty much had an interval. Hustle is co-produced by its star Adam Sandler and real-life basketball legend LeBron James, whose presence has essentially licensed a huge roster of real-life cameos from basketball stars, players and coaches, who are namechecked in the closing credits. The whole thing looks a bit like a corporate promo for the NBA, and certainly does not admit of anything unwholesome in the world of pro…

Photo by Ethan Miller via Getty Images Norm Macdonald‘s posthumous comedy special, Nothing Special, has arrived on Netflix, concluding with a 30-minute commentary and tribute from his famous friends. At a private pre-release screening, Dave Chappelle, David Letterman, Adam Sandler, Conan O’Brien, David Spade, and Molly Shannon watched Macdonald’s 54-minute special and then discussed it, touching on memories they have of Macdonald personally and on a global scale. After Macdonald signed off from what would…

Welcome to the second episode of The TechCrunch Podcast, our weekly news show bringing you all the top stories in tech. This week, we sat down with TC writers Natasha Mascarenhas, Anita Ramaswamy and Devin Coldewey to talk about the continued, troubling trend of layoffs in tech; Adam Neumann’s new crypto carbon credit startup (?!); and the one-upmanship among AI image generation technologies happening between OpenAI and Google. Listen below, and subscribe in iTunes or Spotify to get new episodes delivered weekly on…

Will Excel replace data scientists? Will Excel do the machine learning for us?TLDR: If you are not a data scientist, you too can perform exploratory data analysis. And any data scientists who previously found the distribution of Excel’s automated exploratory data analysis tools results underwhelming — you should now find time to take another look at the software’s cloud infrastructure enhanced tools. To do exploratory analysis well, a data scientist need time. The time spent on exploratory data analysis is usually well…

Adam Neumann is back. The cofounder and former CEO of WeWork and subsequent subject of the podcast-turned-TV-series WeCrashed now says he wants to fix climate change — with crypto. Specifically, Neumann wants to put carbon credits on the blockchain. But making carbon credits easier to buy and sell does nothing to solve the real problem with carbon credits and offsets, which is that they’re broken. More easily trading a broken product doesn’t make it any less broken. Neumann’s new company is called Flowcarbon, and it…