Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Two-channel Class A vacuum tube amplifier delivering 28 watts per channel.

Johnson & Johnson announced a proposed resolution of its remaining ovarian talc litigation, about 76,000 claims, with a $5.5 billion commitment paid per claim - no more than $3 billion in 2027 and nothing more before 2028 - if at least 95% of claimants take part.

Shenman Entertainment’s Yi Zhan Cangqiong begins streaming, a Chinese donghua following Gu An, a crippled young man who seizes the power of an ancient god at his lowest moment and turns it against the enemies who wronged him. The 26-episode ONA leans into a familiar but reliably popular power-fantasy setup — a written-off protagonist ascending to godlike strength to settle old scores.

Visa is eliminating about 2,600 roles, roughly 7% of its workforce and mostly in technology and product, with CEO Ryan McInerney saying AI is reshaping how work gets done.

Ultra-portable 20-watt analog guitar amplifier head with a three-band EQ.

GARDEN Culture's Chinese fantasy donghua Raised by Demons: Panda Li follows a human boy raised among demons on a mission of revenge.

Flagship wireless active speakers with a bigger Uni-Q driver and sculptural design by Ross Lovegrove.

Taiwan's Supreme Court dismissed the appeals of Chen Li-ming and Chen Wei-chieh, making their 10- and 6-year sentences for leaking TSMC's 2nm and 14nm secrets final; both go straight to prison.

Chef Myles Moody (Eleven Madison Park, Aska) and sommelier Rachael Pack open a seasonal Southern restaurant in a former Atlanta burger joint.

Jake Howell, Yuriko Say and Craig Schoen, the team behind Peninsula, open a seven-table multicourse speakeasy by the Cumberland River.

False Memory (2026), a Chinese donghua original streamed on Bilibili, follows Guan Chao's search for the "Burning Stone" needed to power his Time Gun, an accidental fall into the Memory Administration Bureau, and the fights to recover corrupted memories with fellow administrators.

Flagship noise-canceling headphones with improved sound and a more foldable design, now in Olive Gray.

The FAA granted Boeing an amended type certificate for the 737-7, clearing the smallest and longest-range MAX variant for commercial service after a test programme that began in 2018 and ran more than 1,000 hours.

Wireless microphone system with 32-bit floating-point recording and four transmitters.

Zillow laid off just over 500 employees, about 7% of its workforce, in its second and largest cut of 2026, a day before its second-quarter results.

Etsy is laying off about 220 employees, roughly 12% of its workforce, mostly in product and engineering, leaving about 1,600 people.

Powered computer speakers with a bi-amp configuration and LDAC Bluetooth support.

Open-ear clip-on earbuds with improved battery life and physical buttons.

Weekly Energy Department data published on 10 August 2026 put the Strategic Petroleum Reserve at 298.7 million barrels, down 6.1 million in a week and the lowest reading in the EIA series since January 1983. The stockpile had held about 415 million barrels before the Iran war began.

Abbott and Google Health launched a multi-year partnership to bring glucose data from Abbott's over-the-counter Lingo sensor into the Google Health app, where Google's AI Health Coach will use it for personalized advice. The deal includes one of the largest real-world metabolic health studies.

Babcock & Wilcox signed for Siemens Energy to start work on 20 steam turbine generator sets of 50 MW each, 1 GW in all, for its FastPower data-centre program, on top of the turbines already ordered for the Applied Digital project.

Flagship 9.4-channel AV receiver with 8K HDMI inputs and a new 32-bit DAC.

Midrange 7.4-channel AV receiver delivering 100 watts per channel.

Over-ear wireless headphones with improved noise cancellation and lossless audio support over a wired connection.

Chembur station opened on the Line 2B branch of the Yellow Line, taking the operational section to six stations after the first 5.8 km from Diamond Garden to Mandale started carrying passengers in April 2026. The station sits roughly 200 metres from Chembur suburban railway station and about 100 metres from the monorail, making it a three-mode interchange; Line 2B as a whole is estimated to cost 10,986 crore rupees.

The PAW Patrol pups crash-land on a dinosaur-filled tropical island and must stop Mayor Humdinger's reckless mining from waking a dormant volcano.

Studio LAN's third season of Link Click (Shiguang Dailiren) resumes the story of Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang, two friends running Time Photo Studio, where Xiaoshi can enter a client's photograph and relive the pictured moment to help solve their problems.

Open-ear clip-on wireless earbuds with a smart dial built into the charging case.

The Buffalo Bills' roughly $2.1 billion open-air replacement for Highmark Stadium hosted its first game across the road from the team's old venue in Orchard Park, New York.

NVIDIA guarantees leases on about 4.25 GW of AI factory capacity at SB Energy's PORTS-Pike campus on the old Portsmouth uranium-enrichment plant in Pike County, Ohio, with OpenAI as tenant and NVIDIA's exposure capped at $105 billion.

A third northwest Louisiana data center campus, at Resilient Technology Park in Shreveport, lifts Amazon's planned investment from $12 billion to $18 billion and its expected jobs to up to 750 across three campuses.

Shares in China's best-known humanoid maker opened at 1,100 yuan on Shanghai's STAR Market, 629% above the 150.8-yuan offer price, valuing Unitree at about 445 billion yuan (US$66 billion). Some 9.8 million retail accounts had chased 9.7 million shares.

The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California denied California's bid to suspend a Defense Production Act order requiring operation of Sable Offshore's Santa Ynez Pipeline, holding the federal order lawfully preempts state efforts to shut it down. The court also shifted pipeline safety oversight under the consent decree from California's Office of the State Fire Marshal to the federal Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.

Smartwatch with upgraded RAM and storage and more accurate GPS.

Waymo opened its sixth-generation Ojai robotaxi, built by Zeekr, to the general public in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Phoenix, with Denver, San Diego and Las Vegas to follow.

Apple cut more than 200 jobs, about 100 in its Vision Products Group, largely shutting its Vision Pro gaming team and shrinking immersive video, and about 100 in Siri and software as it shifts to Siri AI.

The second edition brought 2,056 robots from 666 teams to the National Speed Skating Oval for 51 events, from football and tug of war to firefighting drills. Tiangong Ultra took the humanoid 100 m to 8.86 seconds - faster than Usain Bolt's human record.