Earlier this week, Cardi B revealed that she and her husband, Offset, of the highly-popularized group, The Migos, were officially ending their relationship. After days of details being unveiled to the general public slowly by the parties involved one ...-- https://heavy.com/entertainment/2018/12/offset-mistress-claims-marriage-cardi-b-wasnt-serious/

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or PUBG has become one of the most popular online multiplayer games ever seen and since the game was released for smartphones in form of PUBG Mobile, it has seen a massive reach among youngsters as well as gaming ...-- https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/article/pubg-addiction-harmful-for-kids-school-warms-parents/327020

The creators of the most popular games in the world of Fortnite created a new library and a shop of electronic games. The main advantage of the new site will be a low fee for publishers of video games which are much lower than Steam. This will help the ...-- https://kozpost.com/blog/the-creators-of-the-cult-game-fortnite-declared-war-steam/23863/

Model Summer Bunni, claiming to have been the lover of rapper Offset, has apologized to his wife, rap star Cardi B, for an affair that may have precipitated the married couple's separation. "I have not messed with Offset since he had his baby," the ...-- https://www.newsday.com/entertainment/celebrities/offset-cardi-b-summer-bunni-1.24287028

Long before the two deadliest pandemics in history—the Plague of Justinian and the Black Plague—an ancient strain of the bacterium responsible for these scourges, Yersinia pestis, may have already wreaked havoc among Neolithic European communities ...-- https://gizmodo.com/ancient-black-plague-found-in-swedish-gravesite-1830907860

PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or PUBG has become one of the most popular online multiplayer games ever seen and since the game was released for smartphones in form of PUBG Mobile, it has seen a massive reach among youngsters as well as gaming ...-- https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/article/pubg-addiction-harmful-for-kids-school-warms-parents/327020

We've known for a while that Microsoft is working on an Xbox console that will not have a physical optical drive, but a new report says the console will come bundled with Microsoft gaming subscriptions at launch that would let gamers get into the ...-- https://bgr.com/2018/12/06/microsoft-xbox-2019-cheap-console-to-be-bundled-with-subscriptions/

The creators of the most popular games in the world of Fortnite created a new library and a shop of electronic games. The main advantage of the new site will be a low fee for publishers of video games which are much lower than Steam. This will help the ...-- https://kozpost.com/blog/the-creators-of-the-cult-game-fortnite-declared-war-steam/23863/

It might not fold in half like the upcoming “Galaxy F” Samsung teases on stage during its SDC 2018 keynote last month, but there's really no question whatsoever that the Galaxy S10 is shaping up to be Samsung's most exciting smartphone of 2019. In fact ...-- https://bgr.com/2018/12/06/galaxy-s10-release-date-soon-photo-leak-fake-but-real/

The latest artificial intelligence systems start from zero knowledge of a game and grow to world-beating in a matter of hours. But researchers are struggling to apply these systems beyond the arcade. 27. maxuser. Update December 6, 2018: This article ...-- https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-alphazeros-artificial-intelligence-has-trouble-with-the-real-world-20180221/

National security adviser said US had long been concerned about role of Chinese tech companies in theft of technological knowhow. Julian Borger in Washington and Lily Kuo in Beijing. Thu 6 Dec 2018 18.21 EST Last modified on Thu 6 Dec 2018 18.23 EST.-- https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/06/john-bolton-huawei-cfo-meng-wanzhou-arrest-extradition-us

What would you like to see here? Email us at popculture@nytimes.com. Hello! Welcome to your daily roundup of what's going on in pop culture. There's a lot going on in the beautifully unpredictable worlds of TV, pop music and movies, so today we're ...-- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/arts/fortnite-sued-by-2-milly-moviepass.html

Apple shares have fallen 26% from their October 2018 high and they're poised to fall further. You can argue that Apple's decline is due to factors beyond its control. For example, the White House threatened to endanger Apple by putting it in the cross ...-- https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2018/12/06/why-40-iphone-discount-is-bad-for-apple/

For years, Amazon has been the one-stop-shop for almost every kind of brand or product that you need. But in the last few years, Amazon itself has started to create its own products to sell alongside others. And with the huge popularity of smart home ...-- https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/reviewedcom/2018/12/06/best-amazon-devices-2018/2225159002/

For Peach*, 20, her work hours mostly occur when people are getting ready for bed. Her days are filled with planning for her night shift — which makeup and outfits she'll wear that evening, what themes her videos will have. When she's finally ready ...-- https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-tumblrs-porn-ban-could-put-sex-workers-at-risk

As you've probably heard by now because the Levin Report has discussed it at length, in recent days Donald Trump told one of his patented, easily debunkable lies and it completely blew up in his face. In this case, the lie was about having struck an ...-- https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/12/wanzhou-meng-huawei-arrest

WASHINGTON—The Pentagon said Thursday that it carried out a rare flight over Ukraine under the international Open Skies Treaty to “reaffirm U.S. commitment to Ukraine" amid heightened Russia-Ukraine tensions. It was the second such U.S. military ...-- https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-military-plane-flies-over-ukraine-in-warning-to-russia-1544136754

PUBG has nearly arrived on PS4, so we're here to tell you the exact time the game releases on Sony's flagship console. We've also got details on preloads and preorders for those who still need them. Are you ready to play the game that kicked off the ...-- https://www.newsweek.com/pubg-ps4-release-time-when-preload-download-game-1247131

We've known for a while that Microsoft is working on an Xbox console that will not have a physical optical drive, but a new report says the console will come bundled with Microsoft gaming subscriptions at launch that would let gamers get into the ...-- https://bgr.com/2018/12/06/microsoft-xbox-2019-cheap-console-to-be-bundled-with-subscriptions/

When Epic Games announced the launch of its own digital storefront last week, many developers praised the platform's favorable revenue split. Epic promises that devs will receive 88 percent of a game's sales, while it will take the remaining 12 percent.-- https://gamedaily.biz/article/436/epic-games-store-being-developed-by-steam-spy-founder-sergey-galyonkin

It might not fold in half like the upcoming “Galaxy F” Samsung teases on stage during its SDC 2018 keynote last month, but there's really no question whatsoever that the Galaxy S10 is shaping up to be Samsung's most exciting smartphone of 2019. In fact ...-- https://bgr.com/2018/12/06/galaxy-s10-release-date-soon-photo-leak-fake-but-real/

Google would like us to think of its messaging strategy as a work in progress. What it's progressing towards, I don't know. Amongst all the changes, additions, mergers, and rebranding its series of messaging apps have gone through over the past few ...-- https://www.pcworld.com/article/3326068/google/google-messaging-allo-hangouts-messages.html

DeepMind, the London-based artificial intelligence company, has announced two research successes — the strongest game-playing AI so far and the world's most powerful predictor of the shape of protein molecules — as it returns to its scientific roots ...-- https://www.ft.com/content/ac50f12a-f962-11e8-af46-2022a0b02a6c

Amazon Music, reportedly the third-largest subscription-based music service worldwide, is doubling down on voice. The company is today announcing the launch of a new set of features that will allow Amazon Music customers to chat with Alexa in a more ...-- https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/06/amazon-music-customers-can-now-talk-to-alexa-more-naturally/

WASHINGTON — The dramatic arrest of a Chinese telecommunications executive has driven home why it will so hard for the Trump administration to resolve its deepening conflict with China. In the short run, the arrest of Huawei's chief financial officer ...-- https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/china-demands-canada-release-huawei-executive/2018/12/06/862f3cc0-f923-11e8-8642-c9718a256cbd_story.html

Rapper 2 Milly is suing Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite, for allegedly using and profiting from, without permission, a dance move he created. The dance move in question is the “Milly Rock,” which 2 Milly—whose real name is Terence ...-- https://qz.com/quartzy/1486659/fortnite-sued-for-using-milly-rock-dance-in-swipe-it-emote/

Up to 96% of all marine species and more than two-thirds of terrestrial species perished 252m years ago. Oliver Milman in New York. @olliemilman. Thu 6 Dec 2018 14.00 EST Last modified on Thu 6 Dec 2018 14.05 EST. Share on Facebook · Share on ...-- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/06/global-warming-extinction-report-the-great-dying

The Game Awards is due to go live this December for its annual celebration of all things amazing in the world of games. In a tweet published earlier this week, Geoff Keighley (presenter and driving force behind the massive show) announced there would ...-- https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/gaming/745564/Game-Awards-2018-COUNTDOWN-Start-Time-Avengers-Crash-Team-Racing-Dragon-Age-4-and-leaks

Priyanka Chopra incorporated many hidden romantic symbols of her relationship to Nick Jonas into her gorgeous wedding wardrobe. We've known about the touching embroidery she included in both of her wedding dresses and the sweet tribute to her mom ...-- https://people.com/style/priyanka-chopra-wedding-henna-tribute-nick-jonas/

As always, take the below image with a grain of salt. This is the leaked box-art for Ubisoft's new off-year Far Cry game, apparently called Far Cry: New Dawn. It could be a fake, but I suspect it's the real thing. Far Cry: New DawnCredit: Ubisoft. The ...-- https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2018/12/06/the-new-far-cry-box-art-just-leaked-and-it-doesnt-look-great/

It's time for the first Red Dead Online update, the one where Rockstar tries to rebalance the economy so that beans aren't worth more than gold and so that salmon isn't the only thing in the game worth its weight in...beans, I guess. Tomorrow Rockstar ...-- https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2018/12/06/red-dead-online-is-giving-away-free-cash-and-gold-bars-as-it-fixes-its-economy/

Fortnite Season 7 comes with a host of new skins along with the Fortnite Battle Pass, giving you Lynx and Zenith skins from the get go. These Fortnite Battle Pass skins unlock new styles as you keep playing and levelling up with seven variants of the ...-- https://gadgets.ndtv.com/games/news/fortnite-season-7-battle-pass-skins-unlock-how-to-1958968

Qualcomm announces a new family of Snapdragon chipsets for PCs starting with the 8cxQualcomm. I posted yesterday on Qualcomm's announcement about the Snapdragon 855 platform for 5G smartphones. While that was hard to top, today was just as ...-- https://www.forbes.com/sites/tiriasresearch/2018/12/06/the-acpc-is-transforming-into-a-premium-enterprise-pc-with-the-snapdragon-8cx-platform/

Kenya Electricity Generating Company (KENGEN) has launched the construction of an 83 MegaWatts geothermal plant in Olkaria, Naivasha. The proposed plant is expected to increase the country's geothermal power output on its completion in 2021. Kenya ...and more »-- https://www.africa.com/kenya-launches-construction-of-a-new-geothermal-power-plant-in-a-bid-to-raise-its-green-energy-stock/

US military observation plane flies over Ukraine in direct response to Russia's actions in Kerch Strait originally appeared on abcnews.go.com. A U.S. military observation plane flew over Ukraine Thursday in direct response to Russia's "unprovoked ...-- https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-military-observation-plane-flies-over-ukraine-direct-211003851.html

Summer Bunni, the woman accused of coming between Cardi B and Offset, appeared in a Nicki Minaj video earlier this year. On Wednesday, shortly after Cardi announced her split from her Migos star husband, The Shade Room posted a video of Summer ...-- https://www.eonline.com/news/993891/offset-s-alleged-mistress-was-in-one-of-nicki-minaj-s-music-videos

Even paradise has its problems. Hawaiian monk seals are making headlines thanks to a photo by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Hawaiian Monk Seal Research Program. The shot shows a sleepy seal staring at the camera while ...-- https://people.com/pets/seal-eel-in-nose-photo/

In an ancient grave in Sweden, scientists have unearthed the oldest known strain of a deadly bacteria that has killed millions of people over thousands of years. They call it Yersinia pestis. You may know it as the plague. Advertisement. The new ...-- https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-plague-ancestor-strain-20181206-story.html

Family Settings on Xbox One are an important tool which let parents monitor and restrict the types of games and the duration to which their children play those games. Microsoft already provides options to limit a variety of features in screen time ...-- https://www.windowscentral.com/xbox-one-family-settings-get-cross-play-filters

Google announced Thursday (Dec. 6) that it is shutting down Allo, its messaging app, which was aimed at helping people get more done in their chats and express themselves more easily. In a company blog post, Matt Klainer, vice president of consumer ...-- https://www.pymnts.com/google/2018/messaging-app-allo-chat-support/

When the Galaxy S10 launches in late February it'll likely come in two versions when it comes to processors, a Snapdragon 855-based version and an Exynos 9820 version. And now that Qualcomm has unveiled its next flagship smartphone chip, the ...-- https://bgr.com/2018/12/06/galaxy-s10-specs-snapdragon-855-vs-exynos-9820-benchmarks/

The Game Awards is due to go live this December for its annual celebration of all things amazing in the world of games. In a tweet published earlier this week, Geoff Keighley (presenter and driving force behind the massive show) announced there would ...-- https://www.dailystar.co.uk/tech/gaming/745564/Game-Awards-2018-COUNTDOWN-Start-Time-Avengers-Crash-Team-Racing-Dragon-Age-4-and-leaks

Up to 96% of all marine species and more than two-thirds of terrestrial species perished 252m years ago. Oliver Milman in New York. @olliemilman. Thu 6 Dec 2018 14.00 EST Last modified on Thu 6 Dec 2018 14.05 EST. Share on Facebook · Share on ...-- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/06/global-warming-extinction-report-the-great-dying

What would you like to see here? Email us at popculture@nytimes.com. Hello! Welcome to your daily roundup of what's going on in pop culture. There's a lot going on in the beautifully unpredictable worlds of TV, pop music and movies, so today we're ...-- https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/06/arts/fortnite-sued-by-2-milly-moviepass.html

Apple shares have fallen 26% from their October 2018 high and they're poised to fall further. You can argue that Apple's decline is due to factors beyond its control. For example, the White House threatened to endanger Apple by putting it in the cross ...-- https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2018/12/06/why-40-iphone-discount-is-bad-for-apple/

Amazon Music, reportedly the third-largest subscription-based music service worldwide, is doubling down on voice. The company is today announcing the launch of a new set of features that will allow Amazon Music customers to chat with Alexa in a more ...-- https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/06/amazon-music-customers-can-now-talk-to-alexa-more-naturally/

DeepMind, the London-based artificial intelligence company, has announced two research successes — the strongest game-playing AI so far and the world's most powerful predictor of the shape of protein molecules — as it returns to its scientific roots ...-- https://www.ft.com/content/ac50f12a-f962-11e8-af46-2022a0b02a6c

Toyota and its Lexus brand are bringing some serious speed with them to the upcoming North American International Auto Show in Downtown Detroit. A couple of weeks after Toyota confirmed it was bringing its Supra to the auto show, the automaker's Lexus ...-- http://www.mlive.com/auto/index.ssf/2018/12/lexus_to_debut_detroit_auto_sh.html

Fans on PS4 and Xbox One will start seeing a host of changes in the Red Dead Redemption 2 multiplayer mode. Having confirmed they were making changes to the way economy worked in Red Dead Online, a new update has been released today detailing ...-- https://www.express.co.uk/entertainment/gaming/1055468/Red-Dead-Online-UPDATE-Red-Dead-Redemption-2-multiplayer-economy-news

As always, take the below image with a grain of salt. This is the leaked box-art for Ubisoft's new off-year Far Cry game, apparently called Far Cry: New Dawn. It could be a fake, but I suspect it's the real thing. Far Cry: New DawnCredit: Ubisoft. The ...-- https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2018/12/06/the-new-far-cry-box-art-just-leaked-and-it-doesnt-look-great/