Drake, Rihanna, Beyoncé lead BET Awards assignments

The 2016 BET Awards assignments are here and the rundown of confident champs sees Drake ahead of the pack with nine gestures, highlighting his achievements over the previous year. The rapper is additionally assigned twice in the same classification – video of the year – for "Hotline Bling" and "Work" with Rihanna.

Rihanna is assigned in four different classifications significance, making her tie with Beyoncé for second-most designations – five each. They're both up for best female R&B/pop craftsman nearby Adele, Andra Day, and K. Michelle.

The BET Awards, built up by the Black Entertainment Television system, honor specialists, performers and competitors crosswise over more than 20 classes and are picked by BET's voting institute made up of diversion experts and fans. The current year's best performer classification sees selections for Scandal's Kerry Washington, Taraji P. Henson for her part as Cookie Lyon in Empire, and How To Get Away With Murder star Viola Davis.

"These candidates speak to profundity and differing qualities in accomplishment over the previous year and we anticipate remembering them one month from now," said Stephen Hill, BET's President of Programming, in an announcement. "This show will be imaginative and exceptional; notwithstanding praising the best in diversion, we'll additionally invest energy all through the show recollecting Prince as no one but BET can. You can depend on important exhibitions and minutes out of appreciation for a genuine legend."

The 2016 recompenses occur on June 26 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles and will be show live on BET's worldwide system.

The full list of nominations is below:

Best Female R&B/Pop Artist

ADELE
ANDRA DAY
BEYONCÉ
K. MICHELLE
RIHANNA

Best Male R&B/Pop Artist

BRYSON TILLER
CHRIS BROWN
JEREMIH
THE WEEKND
TYRESE

Best Group

2 CHAINZ & LIL WAYNE
DRAKE & FUTURE
PUFF DADDY & THE FAMILY
RAE SREMMURD
THE INTERNET

Best Collaboration

BIG SEAN FT. CHRIS BROWN & TY DOLLA $IGN - PLAY NO GAMES
BIG SEAN FT. KANYE WEST & JOHN LEGEND - ONE MAN CAN CHANGE THE WORLD
FUTURE FT. DRAKE - WHERE YA AT 
NICKI MINAJ FT. BEYONCÉ - FEELING MYSELF
RIHANNA FT. DRAKE - WORK

Best Male Hip Hop Artist

DRAKE
FETTY WAP
FUTURE
J. COLE
KANYE WEST
KENDRICK LAMAR

Best Female Hip Hop Artist

DEJ LOAF
LIL KIM
MISSY ELLIOTT
NICKI MINAJ
REMY MA

Video of the Year

BEYONCÉ - FORMATION
BRYSON TILLER - DON’T
DRAKE - HOTLINE BLING
KENDRICK LAMAR - ALRIGHT
RIHANNA FT. DRAKE  - WORK

Video Director of the Year

BENNY BOOM
CHRIS BROWN
COLIN TILLEY & THE LITTLE HOMIES
DIRECTOR X
HYPE WILLIAMS

Best New Artist

ALESSIA CARA
ANDRA DAY
BRYSON TILLER
KEHLANI
TORY LANEZ

Dr. Bobby Jones Best Gospel/Inspirational Award

ANTHONY BROWN & GROUP THERAPY

ERICA CAMPBELL
KIRK FRANKLIN
LECRAE
TAMELA MANN
TASHA COBBS

Best Actress

GABRIELLE UNION
KERRY WASHINGTON
TARAJI P. HENSON
TRACEE ELLIS ROSS

VIOLA DAVIS

Best Actor

ANTHONY ANDERSON
COURTNEY B. VANCE
IDRIS ELBA
MICHAEL B. JORDAN
O’SHEA JACKSON JR.

YoungStars Award

AMANDLA STENBERG
QUVENZHANÉ WALLIS
SILENTÓ
WILLOW SMITH
YARA SHAHIDI

Best Movie

BEASTS OF NO NATION
CONCUSSION
CREED
DOPE
STRAIGHT OUTTA COMPTON

Sportswoman of the Year

CHEYENNE WOODS
GABRIELLE DOUGLAS
SERENA WILLIAMS
SKYLAR DIGGINS
VENUS WILLIAMS

Sportsman of the Year

CAM NEWTON
KOBE BRYANT
LEBRON JAMES
ODELL BECKHAM JR.
STEPHEN CURRY

Coca-Cola Viewers’ Choice Award

BEYONCÉ – FORMATION
BRYSON TILLER – DON’T
CHRIS BROWN – BACK TO SLEEP
DRAKE – HOTLINE BLING
FUTURE FT. DRAKE – WHERE YA AT
RIHANNA FT. DRAKE – WORK

Centric Award

ANDRA DAY - RISE UP
BEYONCÉ – FORMATION
K. MICHELLE – NOT A LITTLE BIT
RIHANNA - BBHMM
THE INTERNET - UNDER CONTROL

Best International Act Africa

AKA (SOUTH AFRICA)
BLACK COFFEE (SOUTH AFRICA)
CASSPER NYOVEST (SOUTH AFRICA)
DIAMOND PLATNUMZ (TANZANIA)
MZVEE (Ghana)
SERGE BEYNAUD (COTE D’IVOIRE)
WIZKID (NIGERIA)
YEMI ALADE (NIGERIA)

Best International Act UK

KANO
KREPT & KONAN
LIANNE LA HAVAS
SKEPTA
STORMZY
TINIE TEMPAH

Lea Michele recalls a unique Glee minute before the series debuted

It's been seven years since the happiness club at McKinley High sang "Don't Stop Believin' " in front rooms over the U.S. interestingly and made an abundance of foresight for Fox's new appear, Glee.

Throughout the years, the arrangement saw a star conceived in Lea Michele, and a much greater one in the show's maker, Ryan Murphy, who's gone ahead to bring us American Horror Story, Scream Queens, and, most as of late, American Crime Story: The People versus O.J. Simpson. We said farewell to Cory Monteith when he kicked the bucket of a medication overdose in July 2013, and we read innumerable gossipy tidbits about dramatization on set. In any case, toward the day's end, Glee made a permanent imprint on TV, and the day that pilot initially disclosed was an obvious popular society minute, one Michele will always remember.

The performing artist commended the commemoration — and Throwback Thursday — by presenting on Instagram a foggy photograph of the cast, including Monteith, Naya Rivera, Chris Colfer, and whatever is left of the happiness club out to supper days before that portentous debut.

"7 years prior," she composed. "It's mind blowing how rapidly time can pass by.. To think we publicized 7 years back today.. Discovered this photograph from our Upfronts outing to NYC days before the debut. We were all so energized. We circumvented the table and each said something we cherished in regards to each other.. Regardless of where we as a whole are presently.. I will dependably recall this night."

From that point forward, Fox has proceeded to showcase music as a piece of its programming with Empire, and also its recently reported arrangement, Star.

Trevor Noah on hostile to transgender washroom laws: 'The contention falls level'

Since taking the reins of The Daily Show from Jon Stewart, Trevor Noah has built up his own image of comedic news scope, characterized more by Noah's dazed appeal than Stewart's blazing criticisms of Fox News. Yet, on Thursday's scene of The Daily Show, Noah drew out his own condemnation side as he fumed against hostile to transgender lavatory laws being gone in states like North Carolina, and the analysts spreading hyperbolic apprehension of rape.

"You do comprehend the transgender populace in America is more like zero percent than one percent?" Noah said. "0.3 percent of the populace is transgender. So the possibility of you chancing upon a transgender individual in the washroom is just about zero percent. Yet, the shot of a transgender individual requiring the washroom is 100 percent. They're as of now managing their own s–t, now you're giving them yours? I don't comprehend, it's so silly."

In genuine Daily Show style, Noah barbarously taunted a few clasps of savants from channels like Fox News and CNN waxing on the "perils" of transgender washroom use. Eventually, be that as it may, he didn't point the finger at them for the discussion. He faulted the penis.

"That is the thing that this is truly about: No one needs to see a penis," Noah said. "On the off chance that you see, nobody's having the discussion the other way. 'What, so there's going to be a vagina in the men's room?' No one's platitude that… Penises are appalling… . Men develop their stomaches to make sure they don't need to see them any longer."

Space explorer snaps selfie amid notable spacewalk

Tim Peake is turning out to be somewhat of a people saint in the UK. The European Space Agency space traveler is as of now on board the International Space Station, flashing around Earth in circle. On Friday, Peake went out on a spacewalk alongside NASA space explorer Tim Kopra determined to repair a force unit outside the station. Peake took a selfie to celebrate the occasion.

Peake is the first British ESA space traveler on the ISS and the first space explorer to wear a British banner amid a spacewalk. The banner patch was connected to one side shoulder of his spacesuit. Space traveler Michael Foale was conceived in Britain and led a spacewalk in 1995, however did as such under the US banner as a NASA space explorer.



The nearby up selfie demonstrates Peake's shoulders and head protector with the darkness of space behind him. The Earth is reflected as a blue globe in his visor. Yet, that is not all. Investigate and you will see part of the station, Peake's hands, the camera and his kindred space traveler Kopra out there. That is a considerable amount to pack into a selfie.

"Today's invigorating #spacewalk will be scratched in my memory perpetually - truly an unbelievable feeling!" Peake tweeted concerning his space experience.

Peake and Kopra effectively supplanted the defective unit in front of timetable. Peake's photograph operation joins a distinguished lineup of space selfies that incorporates a snap of space traveler Barry "Butch" Wilmore amid a spacewalk in 2015 and a noteworthy self-picture taken by Buzz Aldrin in 1966 amid the Gemini 12 mission.

Peake has bounty on his plate amid his time in space. He will run a marathon timed to coordinate the London Marathon back on Earth on April 24. The space explorer will strap into a specific treadmill for the athletic accomplishment. Maybe we'll get another space selfie amid Peake's testing run.

WhatsApp slaughters $1 membership charge

On the off chance that a dollar spared is a dollar earned, WhatsApp clients can make themselves a speedy buck in 2016.

The mainstream informing application on Monday killed its $1 membership charge, which changes over to 70p or AU$1.45, making its administration allowed to all clients all around. In the past WhatsApp has been allowed to use for the first year, taking after which the ostensible expense has been charged on yearly premise. In any case, no more.

"As we've developed, we've found this methodology hasn't functioned admirably," the organization clarified in a blog entry. "Numerous WhatsApp clients don't have a charge or Visa number and they stressed they'd lose access to their loved ones after their first year."



WhatsApp is one of a few informing applications, alongside any semblance of Viber, WeChat and Line, that prospered in the wake of 3G Internet access turning out to be practically omnipresent. After it was purchased by Facebook in 2014 for $19 billion, the administration kept on developing, and with 900 million clients overall it presently stands out.

Its next test will be to stay aware of its rivals, which are beginning to incorporate outsider administrations into their applications, especially keeping money and cash exchange. This could at last open up new income streams for WhatsApp, despite the fact that these outsider business organizations are uncharted domain for informing applications.

The organization completely said it won't be supplanting the membership expense with outsider advertisements, a typical system used to make free applications gainful. Rather, it says, it will acquaint new courses for you with correspond with organizations and associations that you need to get notification from. These connections could be with your bank about late exchanges, or with an aircraft around a deferred flight.

It's the same methodology guardian organization Facebook is utilizing with its own Facebook Messenger application, which in December began letting clients book a Uber specifically through the application.

WhatsApp said it will be trying instruments to this impact not long from now, albeit talking at DLD in Munich, the organization's CEO and author Jan Koum conceded "we haven't composed a solitary line of code yet," Re/code reports.

Tesla Gigafactory isn't yet satisfying Nevada's desires

Tesla made a heap of guarantees when it acknowledged a strong duty motivation bundle to construct its Gigafactory battery plant simply outside Reno, Nevada. While the building itself is meeting up in front of timetable, one Reno daily paper found that different parts of the arrangement have yet to experience the administration's desires.

The Reno Gazette-Journal did the math, and it found that few projections are coming up short. The Gigafactory, fabricated in association with Panasonic, should produce 700 changeless occupations before the end of 2015, for instance. In all actuality, less than 100 have been contracted. The organization's finance for the task was relied upon to be $40 million in that same time period. Presently, that figure is sitting at $2.9 million.



The Gigafactory itself won't not be finished, but rather roughly 20 percent of its 1-million-square-foot office is as of now up and running. The daily paper takes note of that the organization is now assembling Powerwall home-capacity batteries, and generation will just accelerate as all the more square footage gets to be usable.

Tesla won't get off sans scot on the off chance that it can't hold up its end of the deal. On the off chance that the organization can't convey on its guarantees, it will in the end be compelled to pay back the charges it skipped. Considering the full bill would be north of $1 billion, Tesla has a personal stake in not witnessing that.

The production line itself is plainly not vaporware, but rather Tesla is experiencing difficulty right now demonstrating that different parts of the venture add up to minimal more than hot air.

Tech mammoths, agriculturists voice support for Samsung in Apple patent spat

Samsung is very brave companions in its fight in court against Apple - including ranchers, African American little organizations and a gadgets retailer.

Lawful specialists, philanthropic associations and innovation organizations have recorded amicus or "companion of the court" briefs in backing of Samsung, asking the US Supreme Court to consider the patent-encroachment case. They need the country's most astounding court to better characterize plan licenses and restrict the harms that can be recompensed. Also, they're utilizing Apple v. Samsung as the case that ideally gets the central government to institute patent changes, keeping purported patent trolls from capitalizing on protected innovation.

"This is an essential subject, and...it matters enormously to our a great many clients," Lee Cheng, boss lawful officer of online hardware retailer Newegg, said in a meeting. His organization presented a brief alongside Dell, eBay, Facebook, Google, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, HP, Vizio and programming creator Pegasystems that said if the US doesn't change its patent laws, it eventually will bring about less decision and higher expense for shoppers.



"We are exceptionally solid supporters of the patent framework," Cheng said. "All things considered, there's an enormous and colossal measure of misuse."

Samsung declined to remark about the amicus briefs. Apple did not quickly react to a solicitation for input.

The South Korean organization in mid-December recorded a solicitation with the US Supreme Court, asking it to reconsider the choices made in the patent encroachment claims setting Samsung against Apple. The trial, which finished in 2012, cast a splendid light on the plans behind probably the most well known cell phones, and it brought about Samsung at last paying Apple $548 million.