Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Wonder is cutting 533 jobs between 16 September 2026 and 8 January 2027 as it closes its Cranford and Fairfield, New Jersey production facilities and consolidates into a new plant in Swedesboro.

Apple launches the iPhone 18 Pro ($1,199, 256GB) and iPhone 18 Pro Max ($1,299), after pre-orders opened September 12. Highlights: A20 Pro chip, variable-aperture Main camera, improved vapor chamber cooling, upgraded 5G modems, longer battery life, faster charging, a smaller Dynamic Island, and storage up to 2TB. Colors: silver, black, glacier, and burgundy.

Harry Reid International, Signature Aviation and U.S. Customs and Border Protection opened a dedicated general aviation and cargo clearance building on the west side of the airfield. It takes international private-jet arrivals out of the passenger terminals, which the airport says cuts congestion as Las Vegas draws more international traffic for its sporting events.

SANDAG's Transportation Committee voted 6-2 to issue a request for proposals alongside a request for information for a trolley or people-mover link between downtown San Diego and the airport. Five concepts remain, with trolley options put at $1.2 billion to $1.9 billion.

Writer-director Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons) reinvents the Resident Evil franchise, following medical courier Bryan (Austin Abrams) through a single chaotic, monster-filled night.

An all-oral pairing that doubled median progression-free survival to 11.1 months from 5.5 in ESR1-mutated patients in the EMBER-3 trial. It is Inluriyo's second FDA approval in under a year.

Russia's State Duma election runs over three days, September 18-20, 2026, its single voting day being the third Sunday of September. On 20 September 2026 Polymarket gave United Russia a 99.8% chance of winning the most seats, and its companion market had the party landing on 340-354 seats (43%) or 325-339 (34%).

Georgia Tech cut the ribbon on Tech Square Phase 3, a 416,500-square-foot complex of the 18-storey George Tower for the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering and the 14-storey Scheller Tower for the business school, joined by a shared lift core. Its first three floors had opened to the campus in January 2026.

Amazon pledges $20 million and launches the Colorado River Basin Collaborative, a corporate coalition with Aldi, The Coca-Cola Foundation, Ecolab and others that aims to raise $100 million for water projects across the basin in two years.

A 236-acre plant that will make the active ingredient of Lilly's Foundayo weight-loss pill, with more than 600 permanent jobs and about 4,000 construction jobs. Lilly expects it running by 2030.

A qualification program for partner products that meet NVIDIA's DSX AI factory reference design, launching with battery storage from Hitachi Energy, LG Energy Solution and Tesla and coolant distribution units from LG Electronics, LiquidStack and Vertiv.

Compact desktop with new Apple silicon promising up to 4x faster AI performance.

NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated ROS packages add AI agent skills, agent-ready documentation and ROS 2 Lyrical support, released at ROSCon in Toronto for a community of nearly 1.3 million ROS users.

High-performance desktop workstation aimed at filmmakers, AI researchers, and data scientists.

George Lucas's museum of narrative art opens to the public on 22 September 2026 in Exposition Park, after a build that ran years past its first target date. It is given over to storytelling as art - illustration, comics, film and the painted image side by side - rather than to a single medium, and it lands beside the Natural History Museum and the California Science Center in the city's museum quarter.

Xbox eliminated 268 roles across Halo Studios, other first-party studios and its management layer, part of fewer than 600 Microsoft cuts worldwide, and handed the next Halo game to a new Activision team; Ninja Theory now faces a proposed closure.

When a U.S. Marshal falls in the line of duty, a seemingly cut-and-dry case turns into a deadly conspiracy as a family of law enforcement agents become the target of a mysterious assassin. Bridging personal differences and crossing professional boundaries, the Hollingsworth family must use the expertise from a lifetime of protecting civilians and politicians to protect one another and bring the killer to justice... even if it means betraying their sworn code. The premiere, "Pilot": A family of law enforcement agents investigate a double homicide involving a U.S. Marshal. A mysterious murder hits close to home, forcing the Hollingsworths to focus on protecting each other as a family. Season 1 starts on NBC.

President Trump, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen and Greenland Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen signed a pact at UN Headquarters letting the US add defense areas at Narsarsuaq and Mestersvig and expand Pituffik Space Base. It bars non-NATO states from military installations in Greenland and has no end date.

World leaders address the UN General Assembly Hall in New York from 22 to 28 September 2026, as Assembly President Khalilur Rahman of Bangladesh opens the 81st session's debate and António Guterres gives his final address as Secretary-General.