EMEC Opens Its Billia Croo Wave Test Site Near Stromness · Chronopin

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Automotive09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Opel Opens the Dudenhofen Test Center as Europe's Most Modern Proving Ground
Am Opel-Prüffeld 2, 63110 Rodgau-Dudenhofen, GermanyOpel
04/01/1966 - 04/30/1966CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE60.5 years agoMultiple independent 50th-anniversary retrospectives (Torque^[2], epilog.de, autohaus.de^[3]) agree the Dudenhofen proving ground opened in April 1966, though none give an exact day.
Opel opened its Dudenhofen proving ground near Frankfurt in April 1966, the most modern car test center in Europe at the time. Six decades on, its more than 70 kilometers of track still put prototype technologies like automated driving through secretive testing before they reach the road.
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AI09/22/2026@TechDesk
Anthropic Confirms It Runs a Wet Biology Lab in the Bay Area
San Francisco, California, United StatesAnthropic
Starts 09/18/2026CONFIRMED 93% CONFIDENCE5 days agoThe source^[1] page carries its own date of 22 September 2026 and is a write-up of earlier reporting, so the event's date comes from the two reports it is built on: Reuters^[2] published the exclusive at 3:02 AM PDT on 18 September 2026 and TechCrunch^[3] the confirmation at 4:13 PM PDT the same day - "Anthropic^[4][5][6] has a wet biology lab in the Bay Area where it can use its AI models to run physical experiments, it has confirmed to TechCrunch". The pin is the day the lab was disclosed: Anthropic gave no date for when it opened and declined to say where it is beyond the Bay Area, so the pin sits on San Francisco, the city of its own headquarters.
Anthropic confirmed it operates a wet biology lab in the Bay Area where its models can run physical experiments, its head of life sciences Eric Kauderer-Abrams saying the company is doing real lab work today. Anthropic says the facility's focus is fundamental biology rather than drug discovery, where it partners with pharma customers including Novo Nordisk.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
ExxonMobil Joins Hebron's Topsides to Its Gravity Base Structure at Bull Arm
ExxonMobil…Bull Arm, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
12/13/2016 - 12/14/2016CONFIRMED 87% CONFIDENCE9.8 years agoCBC^[2] News reported that ExxonMobil Canada confirmed the Hebron topsides and gravity base structure were joined at Bull Arm on Dec. 13-14, 2016.
ExxonMobil Canada's Hebron project reached a major construction milestone when the platform's topsides were joined to its concrete gravity base structure at the Bull Arm fabrication site in Newfoundland. Italian heavy-lift specialist Fagioli had earlier installed the topsides' largest modules, including a 45,000-tonne utilities process module shipped from South Korea.
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Property09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Eko Atlantic Officially Launched in Lagos
Eko Atlantic, Eti-Osa, Lagos, NigeriaSouth Energyx Nigeria
Starts 02/21/2013CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE13.6 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The first phase of the Eko Atlantic City was inaugurated in Lagos yesterday."
Nigeria formally launched Eko Atlantic, a planned city being built on land reclaimed from the Atlantic Ocean off Lagos, at a ceremony attended by Bill Clinton.
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Semiconductors09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Bosch Opens €1 Billion Chip Fab in Dresden
Dresden-Hellerau, Dresden, GermanyBosch
Starts 06/07/2021CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE5.3 years agoBosch's own media release, "Bosch opens chip factory of the future in Dresden," states the fab was opened on 7 June 2021.^[1]
Bosch opened its new 300mm wafer fab in Dresden, a roughly €1 billion, highly automated plant producing sensors and microchips for cars and consumer electronics.
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Semiconductors09/20/2026@BuildDesk
Texas Instruments Starts Production at Its Sherman SM1 Fab
Texas Instruments Sherman site, US-75 at Shepherd Road, Sherman, TX 75090, United StatesTexas Instruments…
Starts 12/17/2025CONFIRMED 90% CONFIDENCE280 days agoTI's news release is dated "17 DEC 2025" and announces that it "begins production at its newest 300mm semiconductor manufacturing facility in Sherman, Texas".^[1]
TI began production at SM1, the first 300mm wafer fab on its site off US-75 at Shepherd Road in Sherman, three and a half years after breaking ground. The site is laid out for up to four connected fabs and is meant to support as many as 3,000 direct jobs; TI is spending more than $60 billion across seven fabs in Texas and Utah.
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Marine09/15/2026@BuildDesk
Ocean Endeavour Passengers Become First Tourists to Visit the HMS Erebus Wreck Site
Wilmot and Crampton Bay, Nunavut, CanadaAdventure Canada
Starts 09/05/2019CONFIRMED 85% CONFIDENCE7.0 years agoWikipedia's^[3] MS Ocean Endeavour article states Adventure Canada^[2] passengers were the first members of the public to visit the HMS Erebus wreck site, on 5 September 2019.
On 5 September 2019, Adventure Canada passengers aboard the ice-class MS Ocean Endeavour became the first members of the public allowed to visit the wreck of Sir John Franklin's HMS Erebus in the Canadian Arctic.
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Infrastructure09/14/2026@BuildDesk
NIED's Large-Scale Rainfall Simulator Opens in Tsukuba
Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, JapanNational Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience
Starts 03/01/1974CONFIRMED 91% CONFIDENCE52.6 years agoHappened as dated, per the source^[1]: "The facility was established in 1974, following a series of destructive typhoons."
Japan's National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience completed its hangar-sized Large-Scale Rainfall Simulator in Tsukuba, letting scientists recreate extreme storms on demand to study landslides and flooding.
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Science09/21/2026@ScienceDesk
The Extremely Large Telescope Reaches First Light
European Southern ObservatoryCerro Armazones, Antofagasta Region, Chile
Starts 03/31/2029ESTIMATED 68% CONFIDENCEin 2.5 yearsESO^[1][2] states the ELT "is now set to make its first test observations at the beginning of 2029, with 'telescope first light' expected in March 2029". Only the month is given, so the pin takes its last day.
ESO's 39-metre Extremely Large Telescope takes its first test observations from Cerro Armazones in March 2029, with scientific first light following in December 2030.
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Health09/23/2026@HealthDesk
Abbott's Amulet 360 LAA Occluder Wins CE Mark
Abbott Laboratories…Abbott Labs, 100, Abbott Park Road, Illinois, 60064, United States
Starts 08/27/2026CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE27 days agoThe release is datelined "ABBOTT PARK, Ill., Aug. 27, 2026" and says Abbott "announced today it has received CE Mark for the Amulet 360 Left Atrial Appendage (LAA) Occluder".^[1]
Abbott's next-generation Amulet 360 left atrial appendage occluder received CE Mark to cut stroke risk in non-valvular atrial fibrillation, with the first European implants done in Frankfurt, Lubeck and Aarhus.
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Energy09/23/2026@EnergyDesk
Sable Restarts Platform Hondo, the Third Santa Ynez Unit Platform
Platform Hondo, Santa Ynez Unit, Santa Barbara Channel, California, United StatesSable Offshore…
Starts 09/30/2026DELAYED3 months late68% CONFIDENCEin 7 daysDelayed, per offshore-energy.biz^[1][4] (12 Aug 2026): Sable "anticipates the Hondo platform to come online in September 2026" after the June target it gave in April; the month alone is its last day.
Sable Offshore expects the Hondo platform offshore California to come back online in September 2026, the third Santa Ynez Unit platform restarted after Heritage and Harmony. Hondo is expected to produce lower-sulfur crude that should bring field-wide sulfur content back to normal levels.
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Energy09/22/2026@EnergyDesk
Statoil Commissions Hywind Scotland, the World's First Floating Wind Farm
StatoilBuchan Deep, North Sea, off Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, UK
Starts 10/18/2017CONFIRMED 88% CONFIDENCE8.9 years agoWindEurope's^[2] history timeline and Equinor (then Statoil) both date Hywind Scotland's commissioning to October 18, 2017.
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.
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