Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

A-1 Pictures' second Sword Art Online season premieres, sending Kirito into the gunfight VRMMO Gun Gale Online to hunt a player whose in-game shots kill for real.

Akame ga Kill! begins broadcast, White Fox's adaptation of Takahiro and Tetsuya Tashiro's manga about Tatsumi, a country boy who joins the assassin group Night Raid to fight a corrupt Prime Minister's regime using legendary weapons called Imperial Arms.

Microsoft may actually start talking about Windows 9 "Threshold" during the Worldwide Partner Conference 2014 next week. WZor also believes that Microsoft will use this window to introduce Windows 8.1 Update 2, which will supposedly be released by mid-August.

This version of the device "is intended for use with the Kinect for Windows software development kit 2.0," suggesting it's being targeted at developers and tinkerers, and not directly at consumers who might want motion or voice-controlled games and apps on the PC.

Water-cooling enables the use of the lightweight material and thus enables a significant weight reduction by nearly 30% while simultaneously providing cost and system benefits. First, much less effort is required to protect neighboring components from the heat. Second, cooling of the exhaust flow reduces the thermal load on the catalytic converter, meaning it hardly ages at all.

Microsoft is changing up how developers get resources for Windows Phone and Windows 8. In fact, they're actually merging developer resources for Windows and Windows Phone. That's not all, they're adding twenty one new payout markets and highlighting the new Kinect for Windows 2.0 SDK. Details on all changes below.

Microsoft has announced that it will lay off up to 18,000 workers in the next year, in what is by far the largest number of employees that will be cut by the company in its history. In a letter sent to employees earlier this morning that Microsoft also released to the public, company CEO Satya Nadella confirmed that 12,500 of the job losses will be due to the company's acquisition of Nokia's Devices and Services division in April, when it added 25,000 new workers.

As promised last month, Microsoft has now turned on the switch and has expanded the free storage space on its OneDrive service from 7GB to 15GB for everyone who has an account.

Samsung has announced a price for its 105-inch Samsung Curved UHD TV which was first unveiled at the CES 2014 back in January. Those who have a spare $199,999.99 for entertainment purposes will now be able to pre-order this 4K television set.

Twice as fast iPad Mini Retina. Unreal Engine 4 will be compatible with the processor. What this means is that we can expect to see high-end games on tablets and devices that use the chip with cranked up visuals. SHIELD tablet is 8 inch device with 1920◊1200 resolution. It has 2GB RAM, Tegra K1 SoC with 192 CUDA cores, QuadCore 2.2 GHz A15 CPU. Tablet has dual speakers and 5 MPIX ëselfieí camera.

Apple's newly refreshed Retina MacBook Pros, released this morning, have already begun showing up in Geekbench benchmarks, offering a look at the...

Wellograph watch features a heart rate monitor, activity tracker, pedometer as well as the date and time. The watch itself has a Pebble look about it but incorporates a Tri-LED Heart Rate Sensor into the soft spherical surface of the watch. The sensor replicates the action of a doctor using their fingertip to register your pulse. The Wellograph is waterproof up to 50 meters with the battery rated at two weeks of use per charge.

The Snapdragon brand is synonymous with performance. It creates anxiety that competing SoCs feel deep down in their silicon substrate. But can Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 805 maintain its dominance in the Android-based smartphone market?

With a picturesque waterfront already in place, San Diego will soon have its very own open-air fish market reminiscent of other similar markets around the United States, including Seattleís Pike Place Market.

New features include expanding the memory usage profiler to support both .NET applications using WPF and native code applications using Win32, CodeLens support for git repositories so work items and change history can be shown integrated in the text editor, and a better debugging experience for Windows Store apps on multimonitor systems.

Eight months after the first cases in Guinea, the WHO declared the Ebola epidemic in West Africa a public health emergency of international concern. It became the largest Ebola outbreak in history: more than 28,000 cases and 11,000 deaths across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

The alleged description leaked by PCPortal.org.ru did say the August update will include new features and functionality. However, previous reports suggest the update itself will be minor and may simply include bug fixes and stability tweaks for existing features. Microsoft initially planned to bring back the Start menu in Windows 8.1 Update 2. But the company apparently changed its mind and now intends to revive the Start menu in what could be Windows 9, aka Threshold, slated for release in April 2015.

Amazon's card reader has promised customers who register for the service before October 31 will only be charged 1.75 percent on all transaction fees made through the swipe reader until January 1, 2016. Outside of that deal, merchants using Amazon Local Register are charged 2.5 percent for each swiped transaction and 2.75 percent for all manually keyed-in purchases.

Shaft airs Hanamonogatari, the second half of Monogatari Series: Second Season, following Suruga Kanbaru's investigation into a rumored wish-granting 'Devil' after her own cursed monkey's paw resurfaces.

The Ultimate Evil Edition will boast several console-exclusive improvements as well. The new Apprentice mode allows low-level players to boost their stats while adventuring with high-level friends. A new in-game mail system will let players send items to their friends, including ìmysterious Player Gifts containing rare loot for the adventurer whose name they bear.

Mushishi: Odoro no Michi, an Artland-produced special bundled with the Mushishi Zoku Shou Blu-ray release, follows wandering Mushi expert Ginko as he investigates a thorn-choked path haunted by a supernatural presence.

Expect three CPUs to arrive: The Core i7-5820K, the Core i7-5930K, and the Core i7-5960X. Rumored specifications are in the table.

Toei Animation airs the One Piece 3D2Y TV special, an original non-canon story bridging the manga's two-year time skip as Luffy trains under Silvers Rayleigh on Rusukaina Island while protecting Boa Hancock from a new adversary.

Sony's 10-month lead should ensure that Microsoft's console remains at the bottom of Japan's sales stats for a third generation in a row.

Broadcom announced a new Wi-Fi and Bluetooth combo chip today that the manufacturer claims will double wireless networking performance of high-end smartphones and tablets. The hardware vendor claims that users spend an estimated four to five hours everyday on Wi-Fi, and that with the new chipset, they will be able to download and stream content twice as fast as current-gen devices and with less lag.