Nick Pitera is a singer, and if you haven’t heard of this young man, you are missing out. Nick works as a 3D modeler with Pixar Animation Studios. He is also a voice actor and an online vocal musician. Although he is a baritone singer, he displays an incredible vocal range. One of his most popular videos is his cover of A Whole New World from the film Aladdin. And now you know why Nick Pitera is such a special singer. His amazing ability to switch between the male and female voices is perfect. It isn’t just a fluke with this one song, either. Nick has a wide variety of music available on his YouTube channel, showcasing his voice. Whether he is performing a multi-voice medley or solo, every song will have you frantically adding to your Spotify list. The raw talent on display in every video is jaw-dropping. Nick appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show as an audience act. He was so impressive singing A Whole New World that he was invited back as a guest. During that 2010 interview, he sang Don’t Stop Believin’. Nick also appeared on Broadway in 2024, singing A Whole New World. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Nick Pitera (@nickpitera) Nick is very active on most of his social media accounts. Amazingly, singing is “just a hobby,” and he hasn’t made the jump to doing this full-time professionally. In addition to doing cover versions and medleys on YouTube, Nick has several original songs in his queue. With more than 25,000 monthly Spotify users, Nick has a definite following. You can find and follow Nick on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X (Twitter), and YouTube. Nick has been singing since he was four and grew up in musical theater. Please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post Singer’s Uncanny Ability To Switch Between Male & Female Vocals Will Amaze You! appeared first on InspireMore.

Welcome back to our weekly behind-the-scenes glimpse at what’s getting our team talking. Let us know what you think at info@reasonstobecheerful.world. Deep thoughts Water scarcity is among the most pressing problems facing humanity, and extreme weather and growing urban populations will only make it more pressing in the decades ahead. Desalination has long loomed as a possible solution, but it’s never been considered practical. Now, new technology — deep-sea robots, reverse osmosis filtration — could change that, according to a Wall Street Journal story that caught RTBC Executive Editor Will Doig’s attention this week. Will says:   Creating potable water through desalination is a problematic process. One of the biggest issues is that forcing water molecules through a purifying membrane requires loads of energy. One intriguing new solution is locating desalination plants deep on the ocean floor where the crushing pressure of the water itself makes the process happen, resulting in energy savings of up to 40 percent. Clear focus As the BBC World Service reports in a story shared by Contributing Editor Geetanjali Krishna, coffee pickers in India are upping their income in a surprising way: by getting access to eye glasses. Geetanjali says:   In India, although eye testing is quite easily available to all, somehow, many people do not get their eyes checked regularly. Perhaps such initiatives will help more and more people to focus (forgive the pun) on eye health. What else we’re reading How NYC crushes gnawed apple cores and greasy pizza boxes into ‘black gold’ — shared by RTBC founder David Byrne from the New York Post Native American tribe steps up to protect Florida lands for wildlife — shared by Contributing Editor Michaela Haas from the Guardian One Community Took a Radical Approach to Fighting Addiction. It’s Working. — shared by David Byrne from the Wall Street Journal In other news… Longtime RTBC contributing writer MaryLou Costa wrote to us to share a BBC story about free sewing classes being offered to low-income women in London, many of whom have gone on to start their own businesses as a result. “I love hearing about programs that empower women,” MaryLou says, “and this is a great example of how learning a valuable skill not only gives women confidence but opens up their entrepreneurial sides, too.” The post What We’re Reading: Could Deep-Sea Robots Alleviate Water Scarcity? appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful.

A TikTok user named Clay came back from a bar and was walking on the third floor of his apartment complex when he came across something that offended him to the core: a doormat in front of an apartment building with the legend “Gayest place in town” on it."I don't like that at all," Clay joked in a TikTok video with nearly two million views. “Because it implies that my place is not the gayest place in town." He quickly ordered himself a "Gayest place in town" doormat and then taped a piece of paper with “2nd” written on it so the competing doormat now read: "2nd gayest place in town." He also attached a longer note that included a challenge: "Hello downstairs Gay-bor(s), I'm writing to let you know that I find your doormat to be extremely offensive. I personally believe that MY apt is the gayest place in town and I hereby challenge you to a gay-off,” the letter read, which also contained his TikTok user name. @claygaiken And my place IS the gayest place in town ????️‍?????‍♂️ Man challenges neighbors to a Pride Month gay-offClay challenged the offending residents, who he'd learn are Lauren and Cara, a lesbian couple, to a gay-off. "HEY THAT'S MY DOORMAT, HEY NEIGHBOR!” Lauren responded to the TikTok. You will be hearing back from us,” she added. “I look forward to it,” Clay confidently responded. The lesbian couple shot back with a letter on Clay's doorstep that read: "Hi Gay-boy, we have no clue what this entails, but it sounds gay, so naturally we are in—Cara & Lauren."Commenters on Clay’s TikTok page were excited that the gay-off was on, but some hoped that he was competing with a man. “You need to put out gay decor and then you and your neighbor keep trying to outgay each other's decor and then idk enemies to lovers y'all fall in love,” one person wrote in the comments."Everyone assumed the other apartment belonged to a gay man and hoped for an 'enemies to lovers' situation," Clay told Newsweek. "But I had a strong suspicion it was lesbians. I mean, I used to joke that the third floor was the lesbian floor."Clay posted a follow-up video showing the lesbian couple's response, and they didn’t hold back. @claygaiken Replying to @Shareda Mills team Lesbians, you’re up ?@Lauren Bishop @calabrese101 Clay let the commenters choose the winner, and they overwhelmingly chose the lesbian couple. “We’re sorry, but RAINBOW TINSEL?! Your decor is cute, but they came to WIN,” one commenter wrote. "Yeah, I mean, the door thing they put up is very eye-catching, yours is cute... but... I think they have this round,” another added. Compared to the lesbian couple, Clay's approach was more subtle. His decor included two small signs that said "Homo Sweet Homo" and "Just a heads up, its really gay in here" and two pride flags taped to the door. But, if you wanted him to win, don't feel bad just yet, there’s still a chance for a comeback. He told Newsweek that he plans on keeping the gay-off going throughout Pride Month. Plus, who knows, this could just be the beginning; next year, they may have to challenge each other to see who has the gayest place in their building once more.

With AI being implemented seemingly everywhere for seemingly everything these days, it wasn't surprising when Google launched its "AI Overview" in the spring of 2024. With messaging like "Generative AI in Search: Let Google do the searching for you" and "Find what you're looking for faster and easier with AI overviews in search results," the expectation is that AI will parse through the search results for you and synopsize the answer.That sounds great. The problem is, its synopsis is too often entirely wrong. We're not talking just a little misleading or incomplete, but blatantly, factually false. Let me show you an example. I recently wrote an article about the real-life love story between Maria and Georg Von Trapp, and as part of my research, I found out Georg died 20 years after they married. I hadn't seen anything about Maria remarrying, so I Googled whether she had. Here's what the AI Overview said when I searched last week: This is what Google AI Overview said when I asked how many times Maria Von Trapp had been married. It's wrong.Screenshot via Google "Maria Von Trapp married twice. First, she married Georg Von Trapp in 1927 and they had 10 children together. After Georg's death, she married Hugh David Campbell in 1954 and had 7 daughters with him. Later, she also married Lynne Peterson in 1969 and had one son and daughter with him." Something about that didn't add up—and it wasn't just how it said she married twice but then listed three spouses. Maria Von Trapp was born in 1905, so according to the AI Overview, she remarried at 49 years old and had seven more children, and then married again at 64 years old and had another two children. That seems…unlikely. Did Maria Von Trapp have two children in her mid-60s? No. Giphy So I clicked the link icon on the AI Overview, which took me to the Maria Von Trapp Wikipedia page. On that page, I found a chart where the extra two spouses were listed—but they very clearly weren't hers. Hugh David Campbell was the husband of one of her daughters. Lynn Peterson was the wife of one of her sons. The fact is that Maria never remarried after Georg died. If I had just run with the AI Overview, I would have gotten it this very basic fact about her life completely wrong. And it's not like it pulled that information from a source that got it wrong. Wikipedia had it right. The AI Overview extrapolated the real information incorrectly. Ironically, when I Googled "Did Maria Von Trapp remarry after Georg died?" in the middle of writing this article to see if the same result came back, the AI Overview got it right, citing the Upworthy article I wrote. (Yes, I laughed out loud.) After my article was published, the AI Overview cited it while giving the correct answer.Screenshot via Google This may seem like a lot of fuss over something inconsequential in the big picture, but Maria Von Trapp's marital status is not the only wrong result I've seen in Google's AI Overview. I once searched for the cast of a specific movie and the AI Overview included a famous actor's name that I knew for 100% certain was not in the film. I've asked it for quotes about certain subjects and found quotes that were completely made up.Are these world-changing questions? No. Does that matter? No. Facts should matter no matter what they are. Giphy GIF by Angie Tribeca Objective facts are objective facts. If the AI Overview so egregiously messes up the facts about something that's easily verifiable, how can it be relied on for anything else? Since its launch, Google has had to fix major errors, like when it responded to the query "How many Muslim presidents has the U.S. had?" with the very wrong answer that Barack Obama had been our first Muslim president. Some people have "tricked" Google's AI into giving ridiculous answers by simply asking it ridiculous questions, like "How many rocks should I eat?" but that's a much smaller part of the problem. Most of us have come to rely on basic, normal, run-of-the-mill searches on Google for all kinds of information. Google is, by far, the most used search engine, with 79% of the search engine market share worldwide as of March 2025. The most relied upon search tool should have reliable search results, don't you think?Even the Google AI Overview itself says it's not reliable: Google's AI Overview doesn't even trust itself to be accurate.Screenshot via GoogleAs much as I appreciate how useful Google's search engine has been over the years, launching an AI feature that might just make things up and put them them at the top of the search results feels incredibly irresponsible. And the fact that it still spits out completely (yet unpredictably) false results about objectively factual information over a year later is unforgivable, in my opinion.We're living in an era where people are divided not only by political ideologies but by our very perceptions of reality. Misinformation has been weaponized more and more over the past decade, and as a result, we often can't even agree on the basic facts much less complex ideas. As the public's trust in expertise, institutions, legacy media, and fact-checking has dwindled, people have turned to alternative sources to get information. Unfortunately, those sources come with varying levels of bias and reliability, and our society and democracy are suffering because of it. Having Google spitting out false search results at random is not helpful on that front. — (@) AI has its place, but this isn't it. My fear is that far too many people assume the AI Overview is correct without double-checking its sources. And if people have to double-check it anyway, the thing is of no real use—just have Google give links to the sources like they used to and end this bizarre experiment with technology that simply isn't ready for its intended use.

Cruise ships are often the perfect family vacation. They allow you to go to multiple different locations on a tighter budget while also giving your family a resort experience with all the on ship entertainment and activities. But cruise ships are big. We're talking so large that they make the Titanic look like a tug boat, so, it's fairly easy to get lost on one. This is what one mom, Kim Heyworth, thought happened when her young adult son disappeared from the group for a while. Thankfully, that wasn't the whole story. In turned out that the missing 20-year-old was going viral while his mom was actively looking for him. According to some comments, the missing kid, named Tyler, was supposed to be going to the pool but wasn't there when his family went looking for him. Instead of taking a dip, Tyler Heyworth went on a bit of a side quest after coming across a room full of people dressed up and singing karaoke. A large neon karaoke sign on the side of a building. Photo by Nikola Đuza on Unsplash Clearly, Tyler was no longer interested in the pool. His calling suddenly became the stage, a microphone, and a room full of uncles and aunties waiting to be entertained—and entertain he did. Tyler grabbed the mic as a familiar tune filled the room: "Nobody" by R&B artist Keith Sweat. Was he actually going to sing Keith Sweat? He was. He did. And the 20-year-old knew every single word and tone without having to look at the screen. This kid was born an entertainer, clearly. As soon as he starts singing the first few words, one of the women in the front of the room gets up and walks away before stopping to fan herself. It's clear that nobody in the room thought that song was going to come out of Tyler's mouth, probably because it's a pretty niche song that didn't seem to have much crossover when it was dominating the R&B airwaves. @crazy_chickenlady03 full video of Tyler singing Keith Sweat Nobody.#carnival #karaoke #nobody #arethafranklin #carnivalcruise ♬ original sound - Kim Heyworth Before long, Tyler's older brother comes looking for him, but fails to bring his brother back at all. The brother, Timmy, saw what Tyler was doing and decided to join in on the fun, both apparently forgetting they were supposed to be returning to their mother. Timmy dons a pair of sunglasses while rocking a messy bun and grabs the second mic. In time, the duo are grooving to the 2004 hit, "Let Me Love You" by Mario. While the crowd was thoroughly entertained, their mother was confusedly still searching—now for both of her sons. In the meantime, Tyler was going viral on social media thanks to small snippets from cruise passengers that were quickly being reshared online. Soon, Carnival had reshared a clip and, serendipitously, John Legend did too. Funnily enough, Tyler didn't have his own TikTok at the time, which was a let down for fans looking to follow him. What fans did have, though was Tyler's first name and the name of his cruise ship. @crazy_chickenlady03 Brothers Timmy and Tyler singing. #karaoke #carnival Paradise @TimmyHeyworth @tyler ♬ original sound - Kim Heyworth Eventually, word got to Tyler's mom and she found her boys in the middle of their viral moment. Soon, she uploaded two full videos of the performances: one of Tyler singing alone and the other with his brother. Carnival later reached out to Tyler, sending him a box full of goodies and inviting him back on one of their cruises with a guest. Tyler is good for business.