Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Using time series aerial and satellite imagery from 1947 to 2014 of 33 islands, along with historical insight from local knowledge, we have identified five vegetated reef islands that have vanished over this time period and a further six islands experiencing severe shoreline recession.

Mushishi: Hihamukage airs as a special episode of Mushishi, sending wandering Mushi expert Ginko to a village trapped in permanent darkness by an eclipse-linked Mushi tied to a pair of twin sisters.

Noragami begins broadcast, a supernatural action-comedy adapting Adachitoka's manga about penniless minor god Yato, who takes on odd jobs for five-yen offerings while trying to build a shrine and a following.

AMD boasted performance figure of 856 GFLOPS from the new processor, which utilises a heterogeneous system architecture, where compute and graphics cores share the same system memory.

Kuroko no Basket 2nd Season NG-shuu collects animated blooper shorts bundled with the second season's BD/DVD volumes, produced by Production I.G as a comic aside to the basketball series.

Little Busters!: EX is a bonus TV special continuing the Little Busters! anime, introducing newcomer Saya Tokido and the mystery she brings into Riki Naoe's life.

Brain's Base releases a bonus Natsume Yuujinchou OVA, following Takashi Natsume helping a snow yokai search for a memory she has lost during the winter's first snowfall.

Porsche formally opened its expanded Leipzig factory, adding a body shop and paint shop so the plant could build the Macan compact SUV in-house rather than shipping bodies in from Germany's other Porsche site. The plant has been Porsche's most precise production line ever since.

Nokia will reportedly announce the Nokia X (aka Normandy) Android device

Zaha Hadid Architects' fluid, BIM-engineered Dongdaemun Design Plaza opened to the public in Seoul, South Korea, transforming a former stadium site into a landmark arts and design hub.

Diablo III's first expansion strips out the launch version's real-money and gold Auction Houses and reworks loot to drop almost exclusively for the player's own class, restoring the moment-to-moment combat that made the series great.

Announcing the Office you love, now on the iPad ñ specifically Word, PowerPoint and Excel.

Chimelong Group opened Ocean Kingdom on Hengqin Island near Zhuhai and Macao, whose roughly 48.75-million-litre aquarium set the record for the largest in the world. The glass-and-steel structure needed years of specialized marine engineering to safely hold and display that volume of water.

New Start screen introduced in Windows Phone 8.1. Youíll be able to have your image on the Start screen, but itíll show through the various Live tiles that can be set to transparent. It also animates really nicely thanks to a parallax effect.

MUSHI-SHI The Next Passage premieres, Artland's sequel series to Mushishi, returning wandering Mushishi Ginko to villages troubled by mysterious phenomena caused by ancient beings called Mushi.

Production I.G's Haikyuu!! begins airing, a sports comedy following short but determined Shoyo Hinata as he joins Karasuno High School's volleyball team alongside his rival-turned-teammate Tobio Kageyama.

Tuned to run well on devices with 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage, roughly half the acceptable minimum for current Windows tablets. Systems without touchscreens will boot to the desktop by default instead of to the Start screen.

The television anime No Game, No Life begins airing, a MADHOUSE-produced fantasy comedy adapting Yuu Kamiya's light novels about shut-in sibling gamers Sora and Shiro summoned to a world where every conflict is settled by games.

Masaaki Yuasa's TV adaptation of Taiyou Matsumoto's table tennis manga begins airing, following high schoolers Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto and Yutaka "Peko" Hoshino as they navigate the competitive table tennis world.

The Robbins family's five-generation oyster farm opens an open-air saloon on the western shore of Hood Canal, serving oysters pulled from the water in view.

The plant comprises more than five million solar panels that span the equivalent of two Central Parks in the desert between Yuma and Phoenix. It generates 290 megawatts of poweróenough electricity to fuel 230,000 homes in neighboring California at peak capacity. Costing a total of $1.8 billion to construct, received a million-dollar loan from the Loan Programs Office.

The persistent navigation bar is a welcomed change. Previously, users had to swipe down from the top to access it, and while it was much better in 8.1, discoverability was an issue. Now, the green bar will always be there for users. In addition, it highlights Top charts, Categories and Collections, which should go a long, long way in making it easier to find new apps and games.

The company is seeking to expand the number of 'Explorers' in order to improve the hardware and software that provide the Glass experience, we are told. This new open beta program is for US residents only and the price remains at an eye-watering $1,500 for potential new buyers (Glass Guinea pigs).

Studio GoHands releases the Seitokai Yakuindomo* Season 2 OVA line, a run of bonus episodes bundled with the manga's limited-edition volumes that continue the raunchy student-council comedy at Ousai Academy.

Lay-duce releases the first episode of the Magi: Adventure of Sinbad OVA, a prequel set thirty years before the main Magi story that follows a young Sinbad's rise toward becoming a king.