Iteration

Image via Disney With reviews like “neither scary nor funny” and “as lifeless as the ghosts in the movie” on Rotten Tomatoes, it’s easy to see why filmmaker Justin Simien would want to set his version of Haunted Mansion apart from the one starring Eddie Murphy.  Twenty years ago, Eddie Murphy and director Rob Minkoff released the supernatural horror comedy film based on Walt Disney’s theme park attraction of the same name to an audience with mixed reviews. Some critics felt the film missed the suspense and…

It's this continuum of technologies that's evolving that will shape the future, in my opinion. When you asked “what are companies doing there now,” I think you mentioned Walmart. What I'm seeing is that a lot of companies that are interested in exploring the metaverse, they want to anticipate disruption. They want to deeply understand what are the opportunities, what are the risks and what does it mean for their business and how to strategically engage, to learn, to test and learn, but also to reap some enduring value…

TikTok goes a little overboard when it comes to categorizing every last aesthetic into its own microtrend. You notice it when Spotify Wrapped calls your music taste goblincore, or when you strangely end up at a charity gala in San Francisco and a tech exec asks you if he should be concerned that his teen daughter is obsessed with cottagecore (yes, this happened to me). Take any noun, add the suffix “core,” and you’re good to go. There is no more natural terminus to this phenomenon than “corecore,” a meta aesthetic…

Mercedes-Benz wants its EQ sub-brand to be an all-electric counterpart to its current lineup of gasoline luxury cars, and it’s working toward that goal by starting at opposite ends of the price spectrum and working toward the middle. Where the EQS sedan and SUV are the flagships of the lineup, and the EQB serves as an entry-level offering, the 2023 Mercedes-Benz EQE sedan aims for the middle of the market. It’s pitched as an electric equivalent of the Mercedes E-Class, one of the automaker’s bread-and-butter models.…

via Marvel Studios Bruce Banner has had a long and eventful journey through the MCU. Hulk made his debut (in Edward Norton form) back in 2008’s The Incredible Hulk as an uncontrollable rage monster, though has mellowed substantially as time went on. By Thor: Ragnarok the Hulk persona had become more articulate, and by Avengers: Endgame Banner and Hulk had reconciled their differences and amalgamated as ‘Smart Hulk’. This has carried forward into upcoming Disney Plus show She-Hulk: Attorney at Law. Here a…