Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

Google adds neural-network training to its custom TPU platform, announcing Cloud TPU devices with up to 180 teraflops and interconnected pods for larger workloads.

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.

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.

Pixar's Cars 3 opened in US theaters on 16 June 2017, with veteran racer Lightning McQueen facing a new generation of high-tech competitors. Brian Fee directed his first feature.

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.

Waugh Thistleton's 10-storey Dalston Works in east London is completed, becoming the largest cross-laminated timber structure built anywhere to date.

MAPPA's Kakegurui premieres, a psychological drama set at an elite academy where students settle their social hierarchy through high-stakes gambling after hours.

TFBOYS achieved the #3 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 lists TFBOYS's Our Time third, after three weeks at the top of its weekly chart (tied with Lay Zhang's SHEEP, which is listed second).

Einride, a startup based in Scandinavia, has just released a full-scale prototype of its fully electric truck T-Pod. With a range of 124 miles and a 20kWh capacity, it is designed to replace small heavy duty fossil fuel reliant trucks on short trips. Without the need for the driver’s cab, the prototype looks pretty weird but if all goes to plan there will be 200 vehicles transporting goods between Gothenburg and Helsingborg in Sweden by 2020.

For many years, physicists have been aware of the existence of this doubly charmed particle because of current physical theories. However, nobody has been successful in observing the particle and it is only now that the baryon with two heavy quarks has been distinctively detected. Known as Ξcc++(Xicc++), this new particle is almost four times heavier than a proton.

Kinema Citrus's Made in Abyss begins broadcast, following orphan girl Riko as she descends into the Abyss, a vast and deadly chasm of ancient relics, in search of her mother and a robot boy she discovers along the way.