As the voice of Spider-Man India in Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Deadpool actor Karan Soni, who has previously acted in the Deadpool films, is now a part of the Spider-Verse. The movie is a follow-up to Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, which won an Oscar in 2018.

According to a media source, Karan will be the voice actor for Pavitr Prabhakar or Spider-Man India, the alternate-world counterpart of Spider-Man. In 2004, Spider-Man India made his comic book debut. The protagonist began combating criminals after receiving his spidey abilities from an ancient yogi.

Karan portrayed Dopinder, the cab driver, in the first two Deadpool films. He has not yet been confirmed to appear in Deadpool 3. He most recently appeared in the movies Not Okay and The People We Hate at the Wedding.

The trailer featured numerous flashbacks to the first episode, followed by fresh imagery showing Hailee Steinfeld’s Miles and Gwen Stacy travelling to other parallel realms and seeing various superheroes. The villainous Vulture played by Jorma Taccone, Issa Rae’s motorcycle-riding Spider-Woman, and Oscar Isaac’s vicious Spider-Man 2099 were also briefly featured.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, which is being directed by Joaquim Dos Santos, Kemp Powers, and Justin K Thompson, is slated for release in June 2023. Aside from Oscar Isaac, it also features Shameik Moore, Hailee Steinfeld, Jake Johnson, Issa Rae, Daniel Kaluuya, Jason Schwartzman, Brian Tyree Henry, Luna Lauren Velez, Greta Lee, Rachel Dratch, Jorma Taccone, Shea Whigham, and others

An Indian-American and three others have been selected among a pool of graduating high school seniors as a recipient of the Cutler-Bell Prize in High School Computing that empowers students to pursue computing challenges beyond the traditional classroom environment.

Sirihaasa Nallamothu of University High School in Normal, Illinois, will receive a $10,000 cash prize for her project that was selected by a panel of judges based on ingenuity, complexity, relevancy and originality.

Her project engages modern technology and computer science to address the research gap to predict Vasovagal Syncope — a sudden drop in heart rate and blood pressure leading to fainting — in Patients with Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS).

Inspired from a TikTok that led her down a rabbit hole about POTS, Sirihaasa found to her surprise there were no research studies or consumer solutions to predict syncope on real-world data.

Sirihaasa is the first person to conduct an Institutional Review Board research study and collect human subject field data on POTS patients in the real world using non-invasive technologies, according to a news release.

She wrote a Python script to extract the 15-minute window signal data of heart rate, blood volumetric pressure, EDA, temperature, and accelerometer data, the release added.

The high schooler also founded a Girls Who Code club at her Middle school, developed and taught coding curriculum/activities, managed grants/funding, and networked and planned events.

After completing her research, Sirihaasa plans to work toward creating a consumer product and pairing her algorithm with a smart watch.

The Cutler-Bell Prize promotes the field of computer science and empowers students to pursue computing challenges beyond the traditional classroom environment.

In 2015, David Cutler and Gordon Bell established the award.

Cutler is a software engineer, designer, and developer of several operating systems at Digital Equipment Corporation. Bell, an electrical engineer, is Researcher Emeritus at Microsoft Research.

This year’s Cutler-Bell Prize recipients will be formally recognised at the Computer Science Teachers Association’s 2023 Virtual Conference, July 11-13.

Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s historic state visit to the US next month, Indian-Americans are planning to welcome him with an ‘India Unity Day’ march in 20 major cities across America on June 18, organisers have announced.

Modi will embark on his first state visit to the US at the invitation of President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden in June. The US president and the First Lady will also host Modi at a state dinner on June 22.

“The (Indian-American) community is really excited (about Modi’s visit). The community is gathering on June 18 here in Washington DC at the National Monument. And there will be a march from Washington Monument to Lincoln Memorial, calling it ‘India Unity Day’ and welcoming Modiji. That is two days in advance,” said community leader Adapa Prasad, who is also the national president of Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP), USA.

Also at the same time, in about 20 places across the United States, “from east to west, from north to south, covering major cities” there will be similar welcome marches at iconic places like Times Square in New York and Golden Bridge in San Francisco, he said on Sunday.

The other cities are Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, Miami, Tampa, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, Columbus, and St Louis.