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Billy Crystal is taking fans back to 1989 with his recent social media post.
In a tweet posted on Tuesday for his 75th birthday, Crystal shared a photo of himself recreating a moment from his beloved film When Harry Met Sally.
In the photo, Crystal is seen crouching as he did in a classic still from the movie in which he co-starred with Meg Ryan, and wears a similar white cable knit sweater, jeans and sneakers as his character did.
“Thank you all,” Crystal wrote in the caption, as a reply to the birthday wishes he received.
When Harry Met Sally is celebrating its 34th anniversary this year.
Crystal played the titular character Harry in the movie to Ryan’s Sally. The romantic comedy, written by Nora Ephron, followed Harry and Sally’s story, from their first time meeting through several chance encounters in New York City — and eventually, their happily ever after.
Yusuf/Cat Stevens is back with new music. The 74-year-old is set to drop his seventeenth studio album, King of a Land, on June 16.
“Looking at the jagged journey of my music, beginning as I did in the 60s, I would say this new record is a mosaic,” Yusuf/Stevens shares. “A very clearly defined description of where I’ve been and who I am.”
The album features 12 new songs, including the just-released first single “Take the World Apart,” which is the record’s closing track. Stevens notes, “Sometimes you have to take something apart, to find the peace you’re looking for.”
“Train on a Hill”
“King of a Land”
“Pagan Run”
“He Is True”
“All Nights, All Days”
“Another Night in the Rain”
“Things”
“Son of Mary”
“Highness”
“The Boy Who Knew How to Climb Walls”
“How Good It Feels”
“Take the World Apart”
(NEW YORK) — Chicago Bears running back David Montgomery is reportedly headed to Detroit.
Citing a source, ESPN reports Montgomery, 25, has agreed on a three-year, $18 million deal with the Detroit Lions. The contract includes $11 million guaranteed.
Montgomery was drafted by the Bears in the third round of the 2019 NFL draft. Since then, he has totaled 3,609 rushing yards and 26 touchdowns in his four seasons with Chicago.
While fans have focused on what Miley Cyrus may or may not be saying about her ex-husband Liam Hemsworth on her new album, Endless Summer Vacation, the star is “the healthiest and happiest she’s been in a long time,” a source tells People.
According to the source, Miley’s had time to “process and heal” following her split with Hemsworth, during which, the source says, “Everyone was blaming her for the divorce and calling her this wild child, but that wasn’t fair.” Adds the source, “Their relationship and marriage was toxic, and she was heartbroken.”
And now, the source says the “Flowers” singer has arrived at a place where she’s finally ready to “tell her side of the story.”
“She’s not trying to bash Liam, but she feels like she has every right to own the narrative after everyone was picking her apart after the breakup,” explains the source.
Miley and Liam married in 2018 after dating on and off since 2009. They broke up less than a year later. Miley’s now moved on with drummer Max Morando, who produced two songs on the new album.
“[Max] has no interest in being a huge celebrity; he’s very low-key. Miley loves these qualities,” the source dishes. “Miley can be herself. They are supportive of each other’s careers. Miley is enjoying life and things are great.”
Lil Nas X is apologizing to the trans community for a recent photo he posted and how he handled the criticism.
Taking to Twitter Tuesday, March 14, the “Industry Baby” rapper wrote, “apologies to the trans community i def handled that situation with anger instead of considering why it was not cool. much love to you guys. sorry.”
The response comes after the 23-year-old faced some backlash for a since-deleted Instagram post. In the post, he shared a photo of influencer Glow Princess — who resembles a feminine Nas X — and captioned it “the surgery was a success.”
The “Old Town Road” singer initially responded defensively, according to screenshots. In one reply, he said, “I’m literally just saying she looks like me y’all cannot be f***** serious.” He also questioned whether one Twitter user was “dense” because they asked why he mentioned surgery.
“Baby, this apology ain’t it!” one user expressed. “You need to apologize too [sic] the trans community in material ways that include money, sharing your platform to raise a awareness and just keep it! This is fake as hell!”
The Grammy-nominated artist hit back, “girl eat my a**,” which sparked more backlash. However, Lil Nas seemed to have moved past the whole ordeal, tweeting hours later, “dang what movie should i go watch.”
(NEW YORK) — Social media users, online groups, and even celebrities like Martha Stewart, are touting CBD as a real aid for sleep, but some are beginning to wonder if the legal chemical found in marijuana really works.
Cannabidiol, known as CBD, is a compound found in marijuana but is not an intoxicant, meaning it does not cause a “high,” according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Jessica Ater, a mother of two in Washington state, said she’s been struggling with sleep.
“I can’t sleep at night. Like that’s when my brain starts going crazy,” Ater told ABC News’ Good Morning America. “Nothing worked and, if it did work, not long term.”
After reading about CBD in an online mom’s group, Ater said she bought some CBD gummies at a dispensary that helped.
“My anxiety I mean I still have it at night, but it definitely helps shut my brain off so that I’m able to sleep,” said Ater.
However, Annie Guthrie, a college student who wanted to fall asleep earlier, said her experience with CBD chocolates didn’t work for her at all.
“I had the hardest time sleeping so I needed to try something that could help that,” Guthrie told GMA. “Nothing happened. It didn’t work. It didn’t work at all.”
Dr. Ryan Vandrey, one of the country’s preeminent scientific researchers on CBD, said CBD may have better results for people with anxiety or pain compared to those who have a hard time falling asleep.
“Someone who has insomnia might not benefit from it unless the insomnia is secondary to something else like anxiety, or pain condition,” Vandrey said to GMA.
The Food and Drug Administration has indicated that they want to create more regulations for CBD. So far they’ve only approved it for the treatment of some seizure disorders.
Vandrey said that studies that exist on CBD are small and some found that the chemical doesn’t always isolate from THC, the part of cannabis that makes you high.
“So we don’t have the large randomized controlled trials,” he said. “So we see a lot of promise but we still need more evidence.”
Don’t Worry Darling‘s Florence Pugh and Tick, Tick… Boom!‘s Andrew Garfield are in talks to star in the upcoming film We Live in Time, according to Variety. The film is described as a “funny, deeply moving and immersive love story.” Further details have not been revealed about the film, which is set to begin production later this year…
The series adaptation of A League of Their Own will end with a four-episode season two, according to Deadline. The show, based on Penny Marshall‘s beloved 1992 film, “takes a deeper look at race and sexuality, following the journey of a whole new ensemble of characters as they carve their own paths towards the field, both in the League and outside of it,” per the streamer. Season two stars Abbi Jacobson, Chanté Adams, D’Arcy Carden, Gbemisola Ikumelo, Roberta Collindrez, Kelly McCormack, Priscilla Delgado, Molly Ephraim, Kate Berlant, Melanie Field, Nick Offerman, Rosie O’Donnell, Patrick J. Adams, Patrice Covington, Sadiah Ekulona, Lea Robinson, Andia Winslow, Rae Gray and Lil Frex…
A Million Little Things‘ Jason Ritter has joined the cast of CBS’ Matlock reboot, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The reworking of the original show, which starred the late Andy Griffith, features Kathy Bates as the titular septuagenarian lawyer who joins a prestigious firm and racks up courtroom wins. The cast also includes Skye P. Marshall, David Del Rio and Leah Lewis…
Vanessa Hudgens is set to reprise her role as weapons expert Kelly in Bad Boys 4, alongside Will Smith and Martin Lawrence. Deadline reports plot details are being kept under wraps but filming is expected to begin within the next few months. The third movie, Bad Boys for Life, made more than $426 million worldwide before COVID-19 forced theaters to shut down in 2020. The Bad Boys franchise has grossed a total of $840.7 million globally…
(NEW YORK) — The closures of two of the nation’s largest banks over the past week have put many consumers on edge.
Silicon Valley Bank, the nation’s 16th largest bank, struggled as the sharp rise in interest rates led to a decline in the value of the bank’s Treasuries and mortgage bonds. When the bank’s value dropped, its customers, who are mostly in the tech industry, pulled their money from the institution in a so-called bank run that forced Silicon Valley Bank to close for good.
Days later, New York-based Signature Bank, the 29th-largest bank in the U.S., was ordered to close.
After the banks’ closures, even people who didn’t have money invested in Silicon Valley Bank or Signature Bank were left wondering what it might mean for them and their money.
ABC News’ Good Morning America spoke with financial expert Farnoosh Torabi, host of the “So Money” podcast, to break down what consumers need to know.
Are other banks still safe to keep money in?
Yes, according to Torabi.
“Silicon Valley Bank is making the news because it is an anomaly. It is an anomaly event in the financial world,” Torabi said. “It’s our human nature to see events like these and think this is what happens all of the time, or this is going to happen tomorrow at my bank, but it’s really important to put this in the perspective of history. Very few banks actually go completely out of business.”
The banks’ closings have prompted some people on social media to post about taking their money out of banks and storing it at home, which Torabi said would be one of the worst decisions to make at this moment.
“I can assure you that that is a not safe thing to do,” she said. “It is far worse to put your money at home, in a lockbox, under your mattress than at a bank in the United States.”
What do I need to ask my bank to make sure it is secure?
The one step Torabi says every person should take is to make sure their bank has a partnership with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, better known as the FDIC.
The FDIC is an independent government agency tasked with keeping the nation’s banking system running.
Consumers can go to the FDIC website to see if their bank is insured, or ask their bank directly.
Torabi said it’s more important than ever, given the number of tech-driven, digital banks on the market, to know who is behind the bank and whether or not they are FDIC-insured.
“There are more choices as consumers, so we have to do our due diligence,” she said. “It’s very important that you do your homework, your background check, on that bank.”
What does FDIC insurance do?
If a bank is FDIC-insured, its depositors are guaranteed protection of up to $250,000 in funds for each different type of account held.
In other words, if a customer has $200,000 in checking and savings accounts at an FDIC-insured bank and that bank goes under, the FDIC will step in and pay the customer $200,000 so they do not lose the money.
Torabi said the FDIC website is, again, a great resource for people to figure out how their accounts are insured and up to what limit. In some cases, for example, a couple that has both individual and joint accounts at one bank may be insured past the $250,000 limit.
In extreme, larger cases, as with Silicon Valley Bank, the FDIC will also step in to cover beyond the $250,000 limit.
The FDIC, the Treasury Department and the Fed have told depositors in Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank that the FDIC would protect all of their funds, including those that exceed the $250,000 limit.
It is important to note that the FDIC does not insure risky investments like stocks, bonds or crypto.
Do I need to spread my money across multiple different banks?
Torabi said this time is a good reminder of the “importance of diversification” when it comes to our money.
“We should always be diversifying not only where we invest, but when it comes to saving, too,” Torabi said. “If you have more than $250,000 in a bank, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re not protected, because we know FDIC limits work in different ways, but it’s important to check. It’s important to know.”
She continued, “Maybe what you do is you put some of that money at a different institution, or you take some of it and put it in a joint account.”
Will the fall of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank impact interest rates?
Over the last several months, Americans have been hit hard by both elevated inflation and aggressive interest rate hikes.
One interesting impact of the collapse of the two banks is that it could lead to slight relief for consumers.
While the Federal Reserve is expected to hike interest rates again next week to keep combating inflation, Wall Street analysts do not expect the hike to be as aggressive now because higher interest rates put even more pressure on banks, according to Rebecca Jarvis, ABC News chief business, technology and economics correspondent.
If my money wasn’t in the impacted banks, what should my biggest concern be?
According to Torabi, the economic concern she is most focused on at the moment is layoffs and making sure consumers are prepared for that worst-case scenario.
On Tuesday, for example, Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta announced it was cutting 10,000 jobs and will cancel 5,000 open positions.
Torabi said she encourages people to start thinking now about what they would need financially if they were laid off, so they can prepare.
“Doing this sort of pre-emptive crisis management now can allow you to then see, when times are still good, where the holes are in your financial life and start to fill them,” she said, adding that people should keep their resumes and networking up-to-date and ask themselves questions like, “What if I got laid off today? What would I do? Do I know how to collect unemployment? Do I have enough in savings? What would I cut out of my budget?”
Torabi said that same kind of action-oriented thinking can also apply to looking at the fall of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank.
“As a consumer, as a depositor at a bank that didn’t have any relationship with SVB [Silicon Valley Bank], I think it’s not worth your time obsessing over this,” she said. “Just make sure to dot your i’s, cross your t’s, make sure your money is FDIC-insured and if you have questions, talk to your lender, talk to your bank. They would know better than anybody.”
(NEW YORK) — OpenAI released the latest version of ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence language model making significant waves in the tech industry, on Tuesday.
GPT-4, the latest model, can understand images as input, meaning it can look at a photo and give the user general information about the image.
The language model also has a larger information database, allowing it to provide more accurate information and write code in all major programming languages.
GPT-4 can now read, analyze or generate up to 25,000 words of text and is seemingly much smarter than its previous model. GPT-4 scored in the 90th percentile on the Uniform Bar Exam. Its previous model scored in the 10th, according to OpenAI.
ChatGPT, which was only released a few months ago, is already considered the fastest-growing consumer application in history. The app hit 100 million monthly active users in just a few months. TikTok took nine months to reach that many users and Instagram took nearly three years, according to a UBS study.
“While less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, [GPT-4] exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks,” OpenAI wrote in its press release, adding that the language model scored a 700/800 on the math SAT.
Though impressive, OpenAI acknowledged the program is still “far from perfect.”
“It is still flawed, still limited, and it still seems more impressive on first use than it does after you spend more time with it,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman tweeted.
Artificial intelligence models, including ChatGPT, have raised some concerns and disruptive headlines in recent months. In education, students have been using the systems to complete writing assignments, but educators are torn on whether these systems are disruptive or if they could be used as learning tools.
These systems have also been prone to generate inaccurate information — Google’s AI, “Bard,” notably made a factual error in its first public demo. This is a flaw OpenAI hopes to improve upon — GPT-4 is 40% more likely to produce accurate information than its previous version, according to OpenAI.
Misinformation and potentially biased information are subjects of concern. AI language models are trained on large datasets, which can sometimes contain bias in terms of race, gender, religion and more. This can result in the AI language model producing biased or discriminatory responses.
Many have pointed out the malicious ways people could use misinformation through models like ChatGPT, like phishing scams or to spread misinformation to deliberately disrupt important events like elections.
OpenAI says it “spent months making [ChatGPT] safer,” adding the company is working with “over 50 experts for early feedback in domains including AI safety and security.”
GPT-4 is 82% less likely to provide users with “disallowed content,” referring to illegal or morally objectionable content, according to OpenAI.
(WASHINGTON) — Following a series of close calls involving commercial flights, aviation leaders are set to meet Wednesday to discuss the incidents and work to identify patterns and factors fueling risks to the industry.
The Federal Aviation Administration announced the safety summit last month as part of a review of the nation’s aerospace system, looking at structure, culture, systems and integration of safety efforts.
“We are experiencing the safest period in aviation history, but we cannot take this for granted,” the FAA’s acting administrator, Billy Nolen, said. “Recent events remind us that we must not become complacent. Now is the time to stare into the data and ask hard questions.”
The summit will feature remarks from Nolen as well as Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and National Transportation Safety Board Chairwoman Jennifer Homendy. The event will also include a panel moderated by Nolen and former NTSB Chair Robert Sumwalt, while participants will include various union and lobbying officials.
Nolen will ask participants about what they see in their own operations and request specific ideas about how to enhance the country’s safety net with concrete actions.
In an interview, Buttigieg said he has been seeing an “uptick” in close calls with aircraft in recent weeks.
“This year, we’re on track to have more than 20 — and even one is one that I would not like to see happen,” he told ABC News Transportation Correspondent Gio Benitez.
Buttigieg said he’s “very concerned” about these incidents but stressed the overall safety of the nation’s aviation system.
“We need to make sure that there is continuous improvement, continuous attention to our national aviation system,” Buttigieg said. “Air travel didn’t become the safest way to travel on its own. The American transportation system had to learn from decades of crashes.”
Data shows the more serious incidents have been declining over the last two decades even as the total number of incidents grows.
Buttigieg told ABC News that the rebound of aviation from lows seen during the COVID-19 pandemic has been “putting strain on the system” and the increased demand in air travel also may be contributing to the recent close calls.
When asked if experience among aviation workers is to blame, Buttigieg pushed back, saying, “It’s not just experience in general.”
“We are still talking about human beings,” he said. “And while, again, these cases are extremely rare — we’re not going to allow any of them to pass by without getting a very close, focused look at how it happened, why it happened and what steps could prevent it from happening.”
Buttigieg wrote to attendees of the safety summit on Tuesday, saying he expects to accomplish three things: identifying “patterns and risk factors,” identifying how the different parts of the aviation system can “address any risks” and identifying and implementing “additional steps” to reduce those risks.
“It is our responsibility to take a hard look at all factors and determine what steps are needed to reinforce a safety culture and strengthen safety practices, especially given significant disruptions and changes to the aviation sector coming out of a global pandemic,” Buttigieg wrote.
FAA and NTSB investigating a string of incidents
The FAA and NTSB are currently investigating six close calls involving commercial planes in recent months — five of which occurred at airports and one over the Pacific Ocean.
In December, United Flight 1722 bound for San Francisco experienced a sudden loss in altitude over the Pacific, officials have said. Shortly after takeoff from Maui, the Boeing 777 dropped to just 775 feet above the water in less than 20 seconds. The plane was then able to regain altitude and continue on to its final destination. There were no injuries.
On Jan. 13, an American Airlines flight crossed a runway at New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport without clearance from air traffic control, causing a Delta Air Lines plane to abort its takeoff from that runway, according to the NTSB. The closest point between the two aircraft was about 1,400 feet, a preliminary report from the agency stated.
Also in January, United Airlines 384 crossed a runway at Honolulu’s airport without clearance from air traffic control. A Cessna was landing on the same runway at the time. The Cessna came to a stop approximately 1,170 feet from the United flight, according to the FAA. There were no injuries or damage to the aircraft.
On Feb. 4, a FedEx plane landing at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Texas came within 100 feet of a Southwest Airlines jet taking off on the same runway, the FAA said. Both planes were given clearance from air traffic control to use that runway.
And in February, two more close calls, according to officials — one of which occurred at Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport in Florida after an air traffic controller cleared an American Airlines flight to land on the same runway an Air Canada Rouge plane was cleared to take off from. The American flight self-initiated a go-around and the two aircraft were approximately 3,100 feet from each other.
The other incident occurred at Boston Logan International Airport after a Learjet took off without clearance from air traffic control as a JetBlue flight was preparing to land on an intersecting runway.
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