Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

The FOMC left the federal funds target range at 5-1/4 to 5-1/2 percent on 31 January 2024, with all twelve voting members in favour.

A two-year, AUD $125M rail overhaul at Melbourne's Swanson Dock wrapped up, adding a new terminal so more shipping containers move by train instead of truck.

Aldi Nord said it would close two regional companies, with their warehouses and offices, at the 2024/25 year end and hand their 146 stores to neighbouring regions; the admin and logistics staff lose their workplaces.

Nutella opens a year of celebrations for its 60th birthday on World Nutella Day 2024, with limited-edition character jars and a global #GiveANutellaSmile campaign.

Chanel opened a two-story, 3,200-square-foot boutique dedicated entirely to Watches and Fine Jewellery at 730 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan's landmark 1921 Crown Building, its first store of this kind in the United States.

Dubai's One Za'abeel opened to the public, its twin towers joined by The Link, a 230-metre skybridge that went on to set the Guinness World Record for longest cantilevered building.

Ferrara's Nerds makes its Super Bowl debut in Super Bowl LVIII with a Flashdance-inspired spot introducing a Nerds Gummy Clusters character, with Addison Rae.

Red Dog Culture House streams The Girl Downstairs SP, a bonus episode of the webtoon-adapted donghua The Girl Downstairs, revisiting ex-celebrity Du-Na and her downstairs neighbor Won-Jun.

Blank-check company Flame Acquisition merged with Sable Offshore and, the same day, bought ExxonMobil's three Santa Ynez Unit platforms, the Las Flores Canyon plant and the pipeline behind the 2015 Refugio spill, financed by a $625 million Exxon term loan. The new NYSE-listed Sable set out to restart production shut in since 2015.

Ferrero's turnover jumped 20.7% to EUR 17 billion in the year to 31 August 2023, boosted by the Wells Enterprises ice-cream deal; plants rose from 32 to 37 and staff to 47,212.

Google unveils Gemini 1.5 Pro, a mixture-of-experts model that matches Gemini 1.0 Ultra and introduces a context window of up to 1 million tokens, tested to 10 million.

Production I.G's HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle opens in Japanese theaters, adapting the Haikyu!! manga's climactic Spring Nationals showdown between Karasuno High and rival powerhouse Nekoma High.

Alabama's Supreme Court held that frozen IVF embryos count as children under the state's 1872 Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, letting couples sue a Mobile clinic whose embryos were destroyed and pushing clinics to pause IVF.

Alo Yoga's first UAE store, run with franchise partner Alshaya Group: an 833 m² flagship in The Dubai Mall with an organic beverage bar and a yoga terrace.

Emaar restarted work on the long-stalled Dubai Creek Tower after redesigning it to stand shorter than the Burj Khalifa.

Meeting in Congress at Versailles on 4 March 2024, France's deputies and senators voted 780 to 72 to add women's guaranteed freedom to have an abortion to the Constitution, the first country to do so.

Anthropic releases Claude 3 Opus, the most capable of its new Claude 3 models, which it says beats GPT-4 and Gemini 1.0 Ultra on most common benchmarks and brings image understanding to Claude for the first time.

Governor Kay Ivey signed SB159, shielding IVF patients, clinics and suppliers from lawsuits and prosecution over damaged or destroyed embryos, three weeks after the LePage ruling halted treatment.

Mumbai opened the first phase of its Coastal Road, an eight-lane highway built on reclaimed land and sea-facing tunnels along the Arabian Sea.

Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, the fastest and cheapest Claude 3 model at $0.25 per million input tokens, able to read about 30 pages of text per second, nine days after announcing it with Opus and Sonnet.

The French National Assembly unanimously adopted, in first reading, a bill to curb "ultra-fast fashion" on 14 March 2024. The bill bans advertising for the cheapest, most disposable garments and creates a bonus-malus system funding penalties on the least sustainable clothing sellers.

Tina Cavalleri, Mark Glinoga and Mengyao Yang filed a proposed antitrust class action in San Francisco federal court, accusing Hermès of forcing customers to buy other Hermès products before it will sell them a Birkin or Kelly bag.

The FOMC held the federal funds target range at 5-1/4 to 5-1/2 percent on 20 March 2024 by a unanimous vote, and its projections pointed to a lower rate by year-end.

Egypt's 93,000-seat New Administrative Capital Stadium opened as the centrepiece of an Olympic City the country hopes will support a first-ever African bid to host the Games.