Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

On 17 April 2026 the US International Trade Commission declined to review a judge's finding that Apple's redesigned blood oxygen feature does not infringe Masimo's patents, closing the case that had barred imports of some Apple Watches since 2023.

On 17 April 2026 NHTSA said Ford is recalling about 1.4 million 2015-2017 F-150 pickups with the 6R80 transmission, whose transmission range sensor can lose signal and trigger a sudden downshift; dealers will update the powertrain software.

Tesla's Robotaxi service reached its second and third Texas cities, Dallas and Houston, with Model Y rides that had no safety monitor aboard from day one.

WWE's flagship event returned to Las Vegas for a second straight year, drawing 97,126 fans over two nights; Cody Rhodes kept the Undisputed WWE Championship and Roman Reigns took the World Heavyweight title from CM Punk.

LACMA's permanent collection moved into a new home on 19 April 2026: a 275-metre curved building of glass and concrete that steps over Wilshire Boulevard on splayed piers, lifting 10,220 square metres of galleries some nine metres above the street. It completes a campus rebuild two decades in the making, replacing four of the museum's ageing buildings with a single level where the collection is shown without a fixed route through it.

On 20 April 2026 Ford confirmed that the supercharged Mustang Dark Horse SC makes 795 horsepower and 660 lb-ft, with orders open from US$108,485 including destination and deliveries due that summer.

Moonshot AI open-sources Kimi K2.6, a 1-trillion-parameter multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 32 billion active parameters, a 256K token context window and agent swarms of up to 300 sub-agents running 4,000 coordinated steps.

The 2.25-mile automated people mover linking LAX's terminals to the Metro Rail system and the rental car centre began demonstration running without passengers, aiming for 30 consecutive days of error-free operation before it can carry anyone. Construction was originally due to finish in March 2023; Los Angeles World Airports has since agreed to more than $880 million in dispute payments on top of the $4.9 billion, 25-year contract, and has not announced an opening date.

The world's largest seafood trade show held its 32nd edition in Barcelona with more than 35,500 visitors and 2,290 exhibiting companies from 85 countries, both records for the event.

TSMC's largest annual customer event opened its 2026 series at the Santa Clara Convention Center on 22 April, where it debuted the A13 process, previewed A12 and introduced N2U.

Ferrara Candy Company, maker of Nerds and Trolli, will build a 750,000 sq ft plant in Orangeburg County, its first in South Carolina, investing $675 million and creating 1,000 jobs over 10 years.