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Jackson Yee (易烊千玺) achieved the #1 music ranking of 2017 on China's Billboard Radio China Mandarin Top 10 of 2017. Billboard Radio China's 2017 year-end Mandarin Top 10 (published 12 December 2017) puts Jackson Yee's Li Sao first after four weeks at the top of its radio chart. TME/QQ Music year-end charts began with 2018, so Billboard Radio China (radio-led, with streaming and digital sales as references) is the authority used.

Race Nintendo characters through courses with items and multiplayer competition.

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).

James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 opened in the United States on 5 May 2017, with Kurt Russell as Peter Quill's father Ego.

China's first large jet airliner, the COMAC C919, took off from Shanghai Pudong at 2:01 pm on 5 May 2017 and flew 1 hour 19 minutes with a crew of five, about two and a half years after its roll-out.

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).

J-Ax & Fedez ft. T-Pain achieved the #3 music ranking of 2017 on Italy's FIMI Top of the Music. The J-Ax and Fedez collaboration with American singer T-Pain was Italy's third-biggest single of 2017, a summer rap-pop hit from their joint album.

Boeing handed the first 737 MAX 8 to Malindo Air on May 16, 2017, more than a year after first flight, and the Malaysian carrier flew the world's first MAX passenger service six days later.

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.

Honda announced pricing on 24 May 2017 for the redesigned fifth-generation Odyssey minivan, with orders opening the next day from $29,990 for the LX, a 280 hp 3.5-litre V6 and new nine- and 10-speed automatics.

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.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, with Javier Bardem as the ghostly Captain Salazar, opened in US theaters on 26 May 2017. It grossed about US$796 million worldwide.

Russia's Irkut MC-21-300 flew for the first time on 28 May 2017, a 30-minute flight to 3,280 feet with test pilots Oleg Kononenko and Roman Taskayev, nearly a year after its roll-out.

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.

Square Enix released the Seiken Densetsu Collection on Nintendo Switch in Japan on 1 June 2017; the compilation of the first three Mana games reached the West as Collection of Mana on 11 June 2019 with the first official English version of Seiken Densetsu 3.

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.

Volkswagen unveiled the sixth-generation Polo in Berlin on 16 June 2017: 4,053 mm long on the MQB A0 platform, a 351-litre boot up 25 percent and a German base price of EUR 12,975; UK orders opened from GBP 13,855.

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.

Yoon Jong-shin (윤종신) achieved the #3 music ranking of 2017 on South Korea's Gaon Digital Chart (year-end). Yoon Jong-shin's breakup ballad Like It (Joh-ni), released in June 2017, climbed slowly to number one and finished third on the 2017 Gaon Digital Chart year-end list.

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.