Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jean Nouvel's dome-topped museum, the first Louvre outpost outside France, opens to the public five years behind its original schedule.

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.

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.

A greenfield, $940M airport built ahead of Russia's 2018 World Cup opens outside Rostov-on-Don, engineered to be able to double its capacity later.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.

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'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.

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.

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.

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.

German Dry Docks in Bremerhaven cut the 2001-built ro-pax ferry Peter Pan in two and inserted a prefabricated 30-meter midship section, stretching her from 190 to 220 meters for TT-Line.

The US opened its $1BN embassy in London's Nine Elms, a 12-storey glass-cube fortress replacing the historic Grosvenor Square site the US had occupied since 1785.

Sparkly Key Animation begins streaming Soul Land (Douluo Dalu), a Chinese donghua adapting Tang Jia San Shao's novel about a reincarnated hidden-weapons master who rises through the ranks of spirit masters in a new world.