Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

KONE finished renovating its underground elevator testing facility inside a Finnish limestone mine, extending its shafts to the world's deepest for free-fall and speed testing.

Comcast has two gigabit Internet services, one that uses cable and another that uses fiber only. The one we've talked about so far in this article uses existing cable lines to deliver 1Gbps download speeds and 35Mbps upload speeds with version 3.1 of DOCSIS (Data Over Cable Service Interface Specification). Comcast should be able to boost upload speeds significantly with advances in DOCSIS 3.1 technology, but it hasn't announced any specific plans to do so yet.

David Miller Architects and MCC use 3D laser scanning and BIM to modernise Jan Kaplický's Stirling Prize-winning press box at Lord's Cricket Ground.

Bones' My Hero Academia Season 2 begins broadcast, continuing the adaptation of Kohei Horikoshi's manga as U.A. High's students compete in the closely watched School Sports Festival.

Shuka's sixth TV season of Natsume's Book of Friends begins airing, following Takashi Natsume as he continues returning yokai names recorded in his grandmother's Book of Friends while deepening his bonds with the people and spirits around him.

SteelSeries has launched "the world's first dual-surface RGB illuminated mouse pad". Mouse pad surface insert is reversible, choose between polymer and fabric.

It's a 15.6-inch full HD (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS panel based device. Asus Zen devices are often pretty thin and this is no exception at 8mm. Improving its portability credentials is its weight of just 780g. Asus includes an ultra-thin 1mm foldable smart case with the screen, which provides screen protection and a further horizontal or vertical stand option.

Intel has just patched a vulnerability which has been open and exploitable in all its enterprise targeted Core processors - for the last nine years. Since 2008 Intel's business-focussed PC processors have shipped with Active Management Technology (AMT), Intel Standard Manageability (ISM) and Small Business Technology (SBT) features - all useful features for remote management.

The 13.5-inch screen (with a peculiar 2256×1504 resolution, retaining the 3:2 aspect ratio used on other Surface systems) is bright and crisp. Bezels are inoffensive. The system is very slim, at 14.5mm thick, with a slight taper. The lines are clean. The weight is respectable, for the screen size, at 2.76lb (1.25kg).

A press release from Tesla claims that, on average, a solar roof will cost $21.85 per square foot, if 35 percent of the panels are active and the rest are inactive. Inactive panels are about $11 per square foot, and active panels are $42 per square foot, according to Peter Rive, SolarCity’s co-founder and CTO (and Elon Musk’s cousin).

German automaker wants to bring 10 new electric models to the market by 2020.

Microsoft today introduced the new Surface Pro, choosing that name over Surface Pro 5, at a media event in Shanghai, China.

MAPPA releases Yuri on Ice Side Story: Welcome to The Madness, a bundled Yuri!!! on Ice special in which Yuri Plisetsky skates an exhibition routine with Otabek Altin at the Grand Prix Final in Barcelona.

China recently unveiled the largest floating solar power plant on earth which supplies 40MW of power to the grid in Huainan, China.

MSC Cruises took delivery of the 315-metre, 171,598-tonne MSC Meraviglia from the STX France shipyard in Saint-Nazaire, one of the largest cruise ships ever built, carrying more than 5,700 guests.

Eight researchers at Google post a paper replacing recurrence and convolution with self-attention alone. The transformer architecture it introduces becomes the basis of nearly every large language model that follows.

With the launch of the new iPad Pro models at WWDC this year, Apple introduced new 10.5-inch and 12.9-inch devices that both came with an A10X Fusion Chip, which is said to deliver 30 percent faster CPU performance than previous-generation iPad Pro models and 40 percent faster graphics performance. In comparison, the A9 and A10 were built using a 16-nanometer process, the A8 used a 20-nanometer process, and the A7 used a 28-nanometer process.

The 10.5-inch iPad Pro is slightly larger than the 9.7-inch iPad Pro it replaces, but the size and weight difference is hardly noticeable, especially when you take in the much larger display. Apple was able to introduce a 20 percent larger display by shrinking the iPad's bezels by 40 percent. ProMotion introduces a 120Hz display refresh rate, which brings smoother, more responsive animations and motion response. For example, there's a dramatic difference when you scroll.

Combustible cladding turned a fourth-floor kitchen fire into an inferno that engulfed a 24-storey London housing block, killing 72 residents.

Puy du Fou in Les Epesses, France added Le Grand Carillon, a purpose-built carillon tower performed live as a musical show. The bells, cast by the Dutch foundry Royal Eijsbouts, were engineered specifically for the park's new attraction.

ThyssenKrupp demonstrates a working prototype of MULTI, a cable-free elevator that moves sideways as well as up and down, inside its purpose-built German test tower.

The new Microsoft Modern Keyboard with Fingerprint ID is built with an aluminum frame to make it slim, yet strong. Microsoft calls it a "virtually indestructible" workhorse of a keyboard.

Graphics RAM chips availability scheduled for Q4 2017 and Q2 2017 respectively.

Waugh Thistleton's 10-storey Dalston Works in east London is completed, becoming the largest cross-laminated timber structure built anywhere to date.