Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Vuori opened its first store in South China on 13 August 2026 at The MixC in Shenzhen's Luohu district, giving it a presence in the Greater Bay Area.

PLDT's first-half 2026 core income held at ₱17.3 billion while reported net income fell to ₱16.4 billion; the board declared a ₱46 interim dividend, a 60% payout, and Pangilinan declined to give full-year guidance.

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.

Denim Tears releases the first of five drops of its Fall/Winter 2026 collection with the André Leon Talley Estate, the estate's first authorised apparel collaboration, across 153 pieces.

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.

All 30 MLB owners approved the transfer of the Padres to José E. Feliciano and Kwanza Jones, with Feliciano as control person, ending the Seidler family's ownership.

Kith and BMW's fourth collection, built around Inka Orange, brings an AVIREX leather jacket, leather travel goods, BMW X5 floor mats and a 1:18 die-cast 1972 BMW 3.0 CSi.

In a 20-year retrospective at the Grammy Museum's Clive Davis Theater, Taylor Swift talked songwriting with Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason Jr. and played a piano mashup of 'I Knew It, I Knew You', 'August' and 'All Too Well' on her Eras Tour piano.

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.

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.

Supreme opens its Fall/Winter 2026 season in its stores and online, a range of more than 30 collaborations led by outerwear from Jeff Hamilton, Schott, Vanson and GORE-TEX.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum signed the Record of Decision and 2027-2028 Operating Guidelines for Lake Powell and Lake Mead, cutting Lower Basin deliveries by 1.25 million acre-feet a year for two years, 50,000 of them Nevada's, as both reservoirs hit record lows.

Gap and golf label Malbon's second collaboration - 35 rugby polos, pleated skorts, prep knits and golf gear from $28 to $250 - went on sale on gap.com at noon ET on 21 August 2026.

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.

Fort Wayne, Marion and Indianapolis's Roudebush VA medical centres moved to the Federal EHR, taking VA to 11 hospitals live in 2026 and more than 617,000 veterans on the system.