Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Masaaki Yuasa's TV adaptation of Taiyou Matsumoto's table tennis manga begins airing, following high schoolers Makoto "Smile" Tsukimoto and Yutaka "Peko" Hoshino as they navigate the competitive table tennis world.

The Robbins family's five-generation oyster farm opens an open-air saloon on the western shore of Hood Canal, serving oysters pulled from the water in view.

The plant comprises more than five million solar panels that span the equivalent of two Central Parks in the desert between Yuma and Phoenix. It generates 290 megawatts of poweróenough electricity to fuel 230,000 homes in neighboring California at peak capacity. Costing a total of $1.8 billion to construct, received a million-dollar loan from the Loan Programs Office.

The persistent navigation bar is a welcomed change. Previously, users had to swipe down from the top to access it, and while it was much better in 8.1, discoverability was an issue. Now, the green bar will always be there for users. In addition, it highlights Top charts, Categories and Collections, which should go a long, long way in making it easier to find new apps and games.

The company is seeking to expand the number of 'Explorers' in order to improve the hardware and software that provide the Glass experience, we are told. This new open beta program is for US residents only and the price remains at an eye-watering $1,500 for potential new buyers (Glass Guinea pigs).

Godzilla is a 2014 monster film directed by Gareth Edwards. Produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros.

Lay-duce releases the first episode of the Magi: Adventure of Sinbad OVA, a prequel set thirty years before the main Magi story that follows a young Sinbad's rise toward becoming a king.

Time Out hands half of a 19th-century market hall to the cooks its own critics review, and opens it as a food hall where the magazine, not the highest bidder, picks the kitchens. The format becomes the template Time Out exports to a dozen cities.

Originally expected to be released as a launch title on the next-gen Microsoft and Sony consoles before Christmas but was delayed until this spring so the developers could "polish and fine tune every detail"

Noteworthy: Nissan ZEOD RC is a hybrid electric racing car with a chassis similar in design to the DeltaWing. Porsche's brand new LMP1.

How to Train Your Dragon 2 is a 2014 American animated fantasy film written and directed by Dean DeBlois, based on the book series by Cressida Cowell. Produced by DreamWorks Animation, it is the sequel to How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and the second installment in the How to Train Your Dragon trilogy.

Swiss Federal Railways brought the new four-track Löwenstrasse station into service 16 metres beneath Zürich's main station, the first stage of the Durchmesserlinie cross-city link.

El Hierro's Gorona del Viento plant, combining five wind turbines with a pumped-hydro reservoir, was inaugurated to make the smallest Canary Island the first in the world able to run entirely on renewable energy. Excess wind power pumps water uphill for use when the wind drops.

Singapore's Sports Hub, anchored by the 55,000-seat National Stadium and its retractable dome, opened to the public on 30 June 2014 after roughly five years of construction. The billion-dollar complex also includes an indoor aquatic centre, a multi-purpose arena, and a water sports centre.

The console version of the first Civilization Revolution game barely cracked the NPD's US top 10, with 150,000 sales in its first month on the Xbox 360 before dropping off the sales listing entirely. Meanwhile, the iOS version was the ninth best-selling game of the iPhone for all of 2009, coming in just behind million-sellers like Flight Control. The iPad version has frequently reappeared on the iTunes top paid app list even years after it release, usually during 2K's periodic app sales.

Tokyo Ghoul begins broadcast, Studio Pierrot's adaptation of Sui Ishida's manga set in a Tokyo terrorized by flesh-eating ghouls, following college student Ken Kaneki after a near-fatal encounter leaves him transformed into one.

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.

This standalone OVA sends Oarai Girls Academy's tank team up against the Italian-themed Anzio Girls High School, a matchup only briefly referenced in the main TV series, complete with its own roster of pasta-obsessed commanders. Actas plays the encounter for broad comedy even by the franchise's standards, framing it as newly declassified "lost footage" of a battle fans had only heard about.

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.

Kill la Kill: GOODBYE AGAIN, an unaired bonus episode of the mecha-fashion action series, releases exclusively on the ninth Blu-ray/DVD volume of the show.

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.

Hackers will have 24-hours(ish) to build a working concept, bringing it from soup to nuts to the stage. Following an all-night programming extravaganza, teams will be given exactly one minute to present their working concept in a crowded auditorium in front of the industryís elite. In addition, to help get you up and running on the latest and greatest in tech, weíre putting together some amazing API workshops.

Yesterday, Re/code broke the news that Apple planned to introduce its upcoming wearable device alongside the iPhone 6, and now Bloomberg is seconding...

With Dell having announced its upcoming 5120 x 2880 "5K" display that would be the equivalent of a Retina 27-inch iMac or Apple Thunderbolt...

Apple may launch the larger 5.5-inch version of the iPhone 6 and the 4.7-inch version simultaneously, with previous reports indicating that issues with battery and display technology would hold up the larger device. The iPhone 6 is expected to feature a thinner design, a faster A8 processor, and more. The iPhone 6 is also expected to feature an improved camera, with the larger 5.5-inch version exclusively utilizing optical image stabilization and the smaller device featuring an advanced lens module.

In an interview with the The Wall Street Journal following today's media event, Apple CEO Tim Cook stated that the company expects the launch of...