Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

B.CMAY PICTURES' Yi Nian Yongheng 3rd Season begins streaming, continuing the Chinese donghua adaptation of Er Gen's xianxia web novel A Will Eternal as protagonist Bai Xiaochun climbs further through the cultivation world's ranks.

HBC, the parent of Saks Fifth Avenue, agreed to acquire Neiman Marcus Group in a deal valued at $2.65 billion, combining Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off 5th, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman under a new company, Saks Global, backed by equity from Amazon, Rhône Capital, Insight Partners and Salesforce.

Shaft streams Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season, continuing the story of the girls Koyomi Araragi once saved after his own story concluded.

Crunchyroll's industry panel at Anime Expo 2024 announced a TV anime of Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, the Korean apocalypse web novel and webtoon hit, co-produced by Crunchyroll and Aniplex.

Europe's new heavy-lift launcher Ariane 6, built by ArianeGroup, flew for the first time from the Guiana Space Centre. The inaugural flight met its main objectives despite an anomaly in an upper-stage auxiliary unit late in the mission.

Switzerland's competition commission cleared Rolex's acquisition of Bucherer without conditions, removing the last big regulatory hurdle to folding the world's largest watch retailer into Rolex.

Burberry named Joshua Schulman, formerly of Coach and Michael Kors, as CEO with immediate effect, replacing Jonathan Akeroyd as the brand sought to fix a prolonged sales slump.

OpenAI introduces GPT-4o mini, its most capable and cost-efficient small model, surpassing GPT-3.5 Turbo on academic benchmarks.

Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 begins release, an OVA continuation of the long-running Yamato franchise picking up from the Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2205 films as the crew presses further into the war with extradimensional forces.

An Illinois judge preliminarily approved Alo Moves' settlement of claims that it shared viewing data with Meta, giving each US class member who files by 18 November 2024 a voucher for three free months of classes.

Lingwu Continent is an iQIYI-streamed Chinese fantasy donghua from Soyep about a fallen prodigy who regains his power as a rare dual cultivator of spirit and martial arts.

The Chinese donghua Slay the Gods begins streaming, a Shenman Entertainment production in which a blind teenage night watchman battles mythic invaders threatening his world.

The FOMC held the federal funds target range at 5-1/4 to 5-1/2 percent on 31 July 2024 by a unanimous vote, with the unemployment rate having moved up.

Production I.G streams Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You Season 3, picking up right after Sawako and Kazehaya become a couple as their families and friends' own romances keep unfolding around them.

A 10,000 sq ft Alo flagship at 150 Regent Street with two floors of shop and Alo's first gym and wellness club in the UK.

The US General Services Administration reversed course on a $52M congressional earmark to demolish two historic Chicago Loop skyscrapers, opting to reuse them instead after a sustained preservation campaign.

The fourth season of the Chinese donghua comedy-fantasy Fabulous Beasts (You Shou Yan) streams online, continuing its manga-adapted story of mismatched humans and mythical beasts.

A second season of The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, the isekai comedy about a healer drilled into a battlefield medic, was announced on stage at Otakon 2024.

The second season of Rising Impact begins streaming, following golf prodigy Gawain and Camelot Academy's Japan team as they compete against gifted young golfers from UK and US schools in the Camelot Cup.

On August 11, 2024, the Martin JRM Mars flying boat "Hawaii Mars" made its final flight, escorted by Snowbirds jets, ending 78 years of service as the world’s largest water bomber.

OpenAI ships a GPT-4o update in ChatGPT that users preferred in experiments, while saying it is not a new frontier-class model.

NIST released the first three finalised post-quantum cryptography standards - FIPS 203, 204 and 205 - and told system administrators to start migrating immediately. They are the replacements for the public-key cryptography that a large quantum computer would break.

Crews finished carving three enormous caverns a mile beneath a former South Dakota gold mine to house the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

Cloud Art adapts the wuxia-flavored web novel Jian Lai, following an ordinary boy whose single sword strike is powerful enough to split the sky, as he works his way up from nobody to legendary swordsman by taking on increasingly formidable opponents. The 26-episode donghua run established enough of a following to earn a second season the following year.