Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

The Clippers' new $2BN Intuit Dome arena opened in Inglewood on August 15, 2024, giving the team its first standalone home after decades sharing a venue with the Lakers.

Lamborghini revealed the Temerario at Monterey Car Week, a plug-in hybrid supercar with a twin-turbo V8 and three electric motors making a combined 920 PS (907 hp), reaching 213 mph and marking Lamborghini's return to a V8 mid-engined car for the first time since the 1981 Jalpa.

Sydney opened the City & Southwest section of its Sydney Metro, adding a new driverless rail crossing under Sydney Harbour and the CBD alongside the city's largest railway cavern.

The Taliban's Ministry of Justice published the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice law on 21 August 2024: 35 articles that make women cover their faces and bodies, bar their voices from being heard in public and stop them travelling without a male guardian.

Given: Hiiragi Mix Specials is a set of four short bonus stories bundled with the Blu-ray release of Given the Movie 2: Hiiragi Mix, animated by Lerche as an extension of the Given franchise.

The first phase of Queen's Wharf Brisbane, the AUD $3.6BN riverside district built around the historic Queen's Wharf site, opened to the public as Star Brisbane.

Prague and Stockholm signed a joint declaration to keep the Čáslav-based Saab JAS 39 Gripen fleet flying beyond the lease's 2027 expiry, until Czech F-35s arrive; the binding contract covering 12 jets to 2035 was still being negotiated the following year. The deal underpins the fleet's ongoing depot-level overhauls, which strip and rebuild each jet roughly every few years.

A plant-forward modern Southern restaurant in a century-old house in Montgomery's Cloverdale neighbourhood, run by nutrition professor Deanne Allegro with a staff of under ten.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o in ChatGPT to make better use of uploaded files and to save the key parts of a conversation to memory.

A vegan-certified Nutella that swaps milk for chickpeas and rice syrup, launched in Nutella's 60th year in Italy, France and Belgium in a 350g jar.

Alo's first performance shoe, a $185 unisex runner with a dual-density midsole and heel clip, went on sale online and in its US stores, backed by a campaign with Joe Burrow.

Verizon agreed to buy Frontier Communications, the largest pure-play US fiber provider, in an all-cash deal valued at $20 billion ($38.50 a share), adding 2.2 million fiber subscribers and reach to 25 million premises across 31 states and DC.

Aldi Nord's 42,800-square-metre distribution centre near Lehrte-Aligse began supplying 77 stores in Lower Saxony, completing the modernisation of its German logistics network.

Victoria's Secret & Co. named Hillary Super, previously CEO of Savage X Fenty, as its chief executive officer, tasking her with reviving the lingerie retailer's core brand and its Pink and Adore Me businesses.

Marriott's plan for the world's tallest modular hotel in Manhattan's NoMad district collapsed after years of stalled construction, and the site was sold for a residential condo tower instead.