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.

New 'Star Wars Rebels' trailer has 'Force Awakens' lightsaber, Darth Vader, Leia and Yoda

While numerous fans can't get enough of "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" on the extra large screen, viewers of "Star Wars Rebels" will be charmed to take in more attach ins to the hit motion picture are coming to Disney XD's vivified arrangement.

Not just will fans be getting a look at a youthful Princess Leia (voiced by Julie Dolan) much sooner than her days as a general in the forthcoming scene on "A Princess on Lothal," however a cross-watchman lightsaber that looks like Kylo Ren's weapon from "The Force Awakens" will likewise be showing up on the appear.

This season of "Radicals" is set 14 years after "Requital of the Sith" and three years before "A New Hope." The primary "Revolutionaries" story focuses on a ragtag team made up of cattle rustler Jedi Kanan (voiced by Freddie Prinze Jr.), expert pilot Hera (Vanessa Marshall), road brilliant young person Ezra (Taylor Gray), the "muscle" Zeb (Steven Blum), warrior Sabine (Tiya Sircar) and testy old astromech droid Chopper. They set out on experiences and get to be legends with the ability to touch off a resistance.



The new mid-season trailer for "Star Wars Rebels" connects the old with the new by demonstrating Ezra touching off the lightsaber formed much like Kylo Ren's red cross-gatekeeper lightsaber, however in green.

"I needed to put a gesture to this new history we're finding in 'The Force Awakens,'" official maker Dave Filoni told Entertainment Weekly. "Here you discover a sword we've experienced before and it gives somewhat more connection to something that turns up later."

The trailer likewise implies that the youthful Jedi might run into Jedi Master Yoda himself in a dream, however he may look marginally unique in relation to the wrinkled Jedi instructor in both the "Star Wars" prequels and the first set of three movies.

"An enormous impact was the old Kenner activity figure of Yoda," Filoni told EW. "We held back before giving him the orange snake. We exceptionally thought of it as, in light of the fact that I've never seen that orange snake, and I thought, 'We could be the ones to at long last put that orange snake in there!'" But too bad, high activity costs implied no orange snake for Yoda this time.

Apple exploring iPhone battery rate solidifying bug

On the off chance that your iPhone 6S is by all accounts showing the off base battery rate, it could be influenced by a known bug.

Apple says it is researching an issue with its iOS programming that gives off an impression of being keeping the battery rate symbol from precisely upgrading on the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus. The issue has lead a few clients to trust they have more battery force staying than they do.

Soon after the iPhone 6S and 6S Plus were discharged in September, it developed that diverse forms of the telephone had shifting battery life, contingent upon which of two chip varieties they had inside. Apple conceded this was conceivable, however said the distinction in battery life was just between 2 percent and 3 percent.



This most recent battery issue may be externally deceptive, however it at last doesn't influence the aggregate sum of juice you can escape the telephone on one charge.

The issue is by all accounts firmly connected to the iPhone's check and is specifically influencing clients who have as of late gone through a few time zones or physically balanced the time on their gadget.

"This was transpiring yet I made sense of it was me changing the framework time. It was frigid the battery rate. Hasn't transpired since I quit changing the time/date," said Reddit client Sonnyspak.

Apple said it "knows about this issue and is examining the reason and an answer." In the interim it exhorts clients influenced by the issue to reset their iPhones and after that go to Settings > General > Date and Time and guarantee that "Set Automatically" is turned on.

It's obscure what number of clients have encountered the issue. Apple as a rule pushes out fixes to such issues in the following cycle of its iOS programming, however the organization has not said when we can hope to see this.

Apple did not react to ask for further remark.

Convey your iPhone to the butcher with Iron Maiden's substantial metal portable amusement

A while ago when notable overwhelming metal band Iron Maiden shaped in London in 1975, the gathering likely never envisioned it would one day star in an immersive computer game played by crazy fans on cell phones over the globe - even after their most extreme gatherings. Be that as it may, that is going to happen with the declaration of Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast, a portable pretending diversion for iOS and Android.

The diversion is a coordinated effort between Iron Maiden, Roadhouse Interactive and 50cc Games. Roadhouse Interactive portrays it as "an activity pressed, allowed to-play RPG saturated with Iron Maiden mythology."

Iron Maiden has its own mascot, Eddie, otherwise known as Eddie the Head. Eddie might seem like the pleasant fellow adjacent, however he's really a zombie-like figure with a genuine instance of face-decay and an inclination for playing with discharge and lethal weapons. This is a flawless setup for an awfulness computer game.



Players will tackle Eddie's persona and "investigate new universes, go through time, and fight a cast of sensational and connecting with characters drawn from the sweeping index of Maiden's collections and workmanship." The amusement will highlight a soundtrack pressed with Iron Maiden tunes to keep players head-slamming completely through.

Iron Maiden's collection covers have dependably had a particular look, similar to they got away from some dull corner of George Romero's psyche. This ought to give the diversion architects a lot of grub for adding to the RPG world.

Iron Maiden is as yet going solid as a band. It discharged another collection in late 2015 and is taking off on a huge world visit this year. Iron Maiden: Legacy of the Beast will be accessible this mid year.

Jillian Michaels and accomplice Heidi Rhoades have ''Extremely Different'' Parenting Styles

Jillian Michaels and Heidi Rhoades are dishing about their child rearing styles on Tuesday's arrangement debut of Just Jillian.

In this clasp from the appear, Jillian and Heidi every discussion about they approach bringing up their children.

"Our child rearing styles are to a great degree diverse," Heidi says. "I do like the new age like connection sort of tender child rearing."



The wellness phenom says that she comprehends Heidi's methodology however she "wasn't raised that way."

Jillian's way to deal with child rearing incorporates clarifying what bulls- - t intends to her little girl Lukensia.

"Bulls- - t is similar to when they come up short on Halloween sweet, that is bullsh- - t," Jillian says.

LOL!

Examine the video above to see Jillian and Heidi's child rearing styles!

The Blacklist's Megan Boone is expecting a child young lady with life partner Dan Estabrook

Megan Boone simply made two secretive declarations.

The Blacklist driving woman, who is expecting her first youngster with craftsman Dan Estabrook, is as of now off to a bustling 2016.

"I haven't told anyone yet, however I'm going to have a young lady," she declared amid an appearance on Live! With Kelly and Michael.

In November, E! News solely affirmed the on-screen character was three months pregnant, however little else was thought about the infant news.

Not just will she be respecting a little girl into her elegant life, yet she will be doing it as a drew in woman. The brunette excellence likewise affirmed that she and Estabrook are set to marry.

"We certainly were in it for the whole deal when we made a human," she said of her life partner. By, the engagement landed around the same time as their pregnancy news.



Boone is by all accounts settling pleasantly into pregnant life, especially with regards to those offbeat longings.

"The coolest thing about pregnancy for me is that your body just desires what it needs and after that likewise you can sort of be similar to 'I'm going to eat this since I'm pregnant,'" she told the co-has.

While this mother to-be is gladly wearing her infant knock, will her on-screen character offer in her infant fever? Boone is staying mum on the subject.

While she won't affirm or deny whether FBI profiler Elizabeth Keen will be donning an infant knock on the NBC appear, she did demand it's not very difficult to keep her's covered up for taping.

"There are a considerable measure of approaches to conceal a pregnancy," she said, refering to Kerry Washington's late genuine pregnancy on Scandal as a prime illustration.

We're simply happy she didn't keep this glad news a mystery.

Congrats to these folks to-be!

Hayden Panettiere opens up about post pregnancy anxiety

Hayden Panettiere declines to be quiet about her fight with post pregnancy anxiety.

The 26-year-old Nashville star affirmed in October that she had willfully registered with a treatment focus as she kept on battling with the sickness taking after the conception of her girl Kaya, whom she invited with life partner Wladimir Klitschko in December 2014.

"It improved my life," Panettiere let me know at the Critics' Choice Awards about opening up to the world about her battles. "I do feel and trust it's improved other individuals' lives and a greater amount of a comprehension in light of the fact that post birth anxiety was not something that I ever caught on. You could never comprehend it unless you have an individual inclusion with it.

"I didn't understand the amount of a disgrace it had about it," she said.



She additionally said she's took in a great deal in the most recent couple of months, more than she ever suspected she would.

"I've been doing this for so long and I have an inclination that I have been concealing who I was truly am and was simply perplexed, unnerved that somebody was going to judge, somebody wasn't going to like something that I said, something that I wore, something I did," Panettiere said.

Be that as it may, she is prepared to be agreeable in her own particular skin. "I need to put out a decent case for my little girl and advise her that she could be anybody she needs to be, she doesn't need to be anxious about the possibility that that some person's not going to like it on the grounds that regardless of what you do, there's continually going to be some individual who doesn't care for it," Panettiere said. "I was amazed by the positive reaction and truly glad I could go to bat for the ladies who are out there anguish from this and let them know it's OK, they're not the only one. It doesn't mean they're frail.

"It doesn't mean they're a terrible mother," she proceeded. "It doesn't mean they're peculiar and that they could get help on the off chance that they require it."

For more data about post pregnancy anxiety and treatment, go to postpartumprogress.com.