An animated blooper-reel special bundled with the home-video release of the Kuroko no Basuke movie Last Game, based on a bonus gag section from the original manga.
Production I.G's Haikyu!! The Movie: Battle of Concepts opens in Japanese theaters, a compilation film recapping Karasuno High's decisive third-season showdown with reigning champion Shiratorizawa Academy.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE80%170 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Studio Pierrot's Black Clover begins broadcast, a long-running shounen fantasy following Asta, a boy born without magic in a world where magical power decides status, as he competes with his rival Yuno to become the next Wizard King.
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per macrumors.com[1]: "…a "squeezable" frame like the recently launched HTC U11. The technology will let Pixel users s…"
Google's second-generation Pixel XL could feature a squeezable body, a 6-inch AMOLED display, and thinner bezels. LG is said to be manufacturing the Google Pixel XL 2, which features a design that's curved like the original Google Pixel. It continues to offer a rear fingerprint sensor (now located in the aluminum portion of the device) and a large single-lens camera, eschewing the dual-lens camera trend.
CONFIRMED79% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per arstechnica.com[1]: "…owered by Snapdragon 836 SoC’s, will be unveiled on October 5th. — Evan Blass (@evleaks) August 24,…"
New Google phones to launch 366 days after the old Google phones. The device will come with a new SoC from Qualcomm, a "Snapdragon 836." Pixel is being made by HTC, has bigger top and bottom bezels, and has a 4.97-inch 1080p OLED display. Will have squeezable frames like the HTC U11, dual front-facing speakers, an always-on display mode, no headphone jacks, and 4GB of RAM.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE89%22 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
3-gatsu no Lion Season 2 begins airing, Shaft's continuation of Chica Umino's manga about teenage professional shogi player Rei Kiriyama and the Kawamoto sisters who help pull him out of his isolation.
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCEWindEurope's[2] history timeline and Equinor (then Statoil) both date Hywind Scotland's commissioning to October 18, 2017.
Statoil switched on Hywind Scotland, five 6-megawatt turbines on floating spar-buoy foundations moored 25 kilometres off Peterhead, as the first floating wind farm in the world. The 30-megawatt pilot park proved floating turbines could operate commercially in deep, harsh North Sea waters.
3 Queen Victoria Street, City of London, London, United KingdomFoster + Partners
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEThe B1M’s article (published 10 January 2018) already described the building as recently opened, and independent design press dated the official opening precisely. Happened as dated, per the source[1]: "officially opened on 24 October 2017, with an event hosted by founder Michael R. Bloomberg".
Foster + Partners’ new Bloomberg European headquarters in the City of London opened with the highest BREEAM sustainability score ever awarded to a major office building.
One Microsoft Way, Redmond, United StatesMicrosoft·…
CONFIRMED76% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per theverge.com[1]: "…ter months of speculation, Microsoft[3] is unveiling its “Project Scorpio” games console today, and it’…"
The new console will ship with 6 teraflops of graphical power, more than its main competitor, the PS4 Pro, with 4.2 teraflops. Microsoft is using a custom GPU engine on Scorpio that runs at 1172MHz, a big increase over the Xbox One’s 853MHz and even Sony’s 911MHz found on the PS4 Pro. Microsoft is also shipping the Xbox One X with an Ultra HD Blu-ray drive for 4K movies and entertainment, and 1TB of storage.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEUkraine's Chornobyl NPP states it accepted the New Safe Confinement's Enclosing Perimeter into operation on 8 November 2017 (chnpp.gov.ua[2]).
Ukraine's Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant formally accepted the New Safe Confinement's Enclosing Perimeter from builder Novarka, completing the giant arch meant to contain the ruined Reactor 4 for a century. The 36,000-tonne steel structure, the largest movable land-based structure ever built, had been skidded into place over the old sarcophagus in November 2016.
Louvre Abu Dhabi, Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "Friday marks five years since Louvre[2] Abu Dhabi welcomed the first members of the public" (published 11 Nov 2022).
Jean Nouvel's dome-topped museum, the first Louvre outpost outside France, opens to the public five years behind its original schedule.
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEFelbermayr's[3] own account of the job states the barge carrying the two autoclaves reached the Aschach an der Donau port on 27 November 2017, ahead of the final road transport to FACC.
Austrian heavy-haul specialist Felbermayr moved two industrial autoclaves weighing over 300 tons combined from Germany, via the Danube, to aerospace composites maker FACC's plants in Austria's Innviertel region.
CONFIRMED72% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per mashable.com[1]: "…rice for the pods, but says it plans to begin taking pre-orders later this year with the first units…"
At roughly 120 square feet, the Ecocapsule takes tiny living accommodations to the next level. The pod runs off wind and solar power and is equipped with a wind turbine and solar cells, which fuel the capsules' 9,744 watt-hour battery. It also has tools to collect and reuse rainwater and dew. Between its solar and wind power and water collection systems, Nice Architects say the Ecocapsule can support you for as much as a year at a time in off-the-grid locations.
Wit Studio releases the three-part Attack on Titan: Lost Girls OVA, adapting Hiroshi Seko's spin-off novel with two stories centering on Annie Leonhart's secret mission and Mikasa Ackerman's fractured memories.
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEDefense-Update[4] and Army Recognition[5] both report that Rheinmetall[2] transferred the first Survivor R to the Saxon Special Operations Command in Leipzig on 15 December 2017.
Rheinmetall handed over the first of two Survivor R armoured special-operations vehicles to Saxony's police in Leipzig, part of a wider German anti-terror equipment package. The 340-horsepower armoured vehicle carries up to eleven people, reaching 100 km/h and climbing 60 percent grades.
Star Wars: The Last Jedi, also known as Star Wars: Episode VIII – The Last Jedi, or simply The Last Jedi, is a 2017 American epic space opera film written and directed by Rian Johnson. Produced by Lucasfilm and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the second installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, following The Force Awakens (2015), and the eighth episode of the nine-part "Skywalker saga".
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEHamburg Port Authority's[3] press release states the Rethebrücke, Europe's largest rail bascule bridge, went into operation on 15 December 2017.
Hamburg Port Authority put the new Rethebrücke rail bascule bridge into operation over the Rethe canal, replacing the original 1934 lift bridge and becoming Europe's largest rail bascule bridge.
CONFIRMED76% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per theverge.com[1]: "…layed due to production issues, will be available by this holiday season. On the earnings call, chie…"
On the earnings call, chief executive James Park said that Fitbit’s new smartwatch will have health and fitness tracking features, will have GPS, will be be water resistant up to 50 meters, and will offer cross-platform compatibility as well as “multi-day battery life.”
ESTIMATED72% CONFIDENCEWikipedia's[2] Shinjuku Station article cites 2018 ridership of 3.59 million/day as the basis for its Guinness World Records[3] registration as the busiest station; the exact certification date is not published, so only the year is used.
Tokyo's Shinjuku Station, used by roughly 3.6 million passengers a day, holds the Guinness World Record for the busiest railway station on Earth.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCE77%10 episodes so farPremiere date confirmed on both MyAnimeList[1] and AniList's listings.
Science SARU's Masaaki Yuasa reworks Go Nagai's 1972 manga for its creator's 50th anniversary, following teenager Akira Fudou as he merges with a demon to fight back against an ancient race reclaiming the world from humanity, gaining monstrous power while trying to hold onto his own humanity. The ten-episode Netflix series became one of the most acclaimed original anime of 2018, praised for pairing Yuasa's fluid, unconventional animation with the story's escalating violence and tragedy.
Salesforce Tower, 415 Mission Street, Rincon Hill, Financial District, San Francisco, California, 94105, United StatesSalesforce·…
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per the source[1]: "The building's first tenants began moving in on January 8, 2018."
Salesforce's first employees moved into San Francisco's new 1,070-foot Salesforce Tower, the anchor of the Transbay district and the city's tallest skyscraper.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE86%12 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Bandai Namco Pictures brings Gintama's TV anime to a close with the Silver Soul Arc, following Gintoki and old allies as they unite against Utsuro's plan to destroy the Amanto-occupied Earth.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE86%13 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
Kyoto Animation's Violet Evergarden begins airing, following a former child soldier who becomes a letter-writing "Auto Memory Doll" to understand the meaning of the last words her commanding officer told her.
CONFIRMED92% CONFIDENCE71%24 episodesBroadcast start date confirmed on the title's own MyAnimeList[1] listing.
TRIGGER and CloverWorks' Darling in the FranXX begins broadcast, an original mecha series set in a walled city where teenage pilots pair up to fight giant creatures called klaxosaurs in mechs called FranXX.