Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

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.

A 50% US duty on Canadian beer, wine, cider and spirits took effect after a three-day pause, in retaliation for provinces' boycott of American alcohol, and Canada suspended trade talks and vowed dollar-for-dollar countermeasures.

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.

At the French-Saudi Investment Roundtable in Paris, Aramco announced a drilling-equipment procurement agreement, an oil country tubular goods purchase deal and an Aramco Digital MoU on industrial AI and digital twins, worth a potential $3.7 billion combined. It came during Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's visit to France.

The FDA authorized Abbott's Libre Duo 10 Day, the first wearable to continuously track both glucose and ketones, which alerts people with diabetes aged 2 and older to rising ketones before diabetic ketoacidosis.

Qualcomm's Arduino opened worldwide pre-orders for the VENTUNO Q, a $299 board pairing a 40 TOPS Dragonwing IQ-8275 processor and 16 GB of memory with an STM32H5 microcontroller so robots and machines can run AI models and act on them offline.

Amazon signed a definitive agreement to buy DuckLabs, the bootstrapped Amsterdam team of more than 30 that builds the open-source DuckDB analytics database. DuckDB itself stays free under the MIT license and the independent DuckDB Foundation.

NVIDIA's revenue more than doubled from a year earlier to a record $96.2 billion for the quarter ended 26 July 2026, with Data Center at $89.0 billion, and it guided the third quarter to $108 billion.

Pernod Ricard's sales fell 3.9% organically to €9.4 billion in the year to June 2026 as the US dropped 14% and China 19%, with profit from recurring operations down 5.2% to €2.4 billion and India overtaking China as its No. 2 market.

Elliott Hill named Jane Ewing, interim CEO of Sam's Club China after almost 14 years at Walmart, as Nike's EVP and Chief Commercial Officer from 7 September 2026, over global sales and Nike Direct, reviving a role Nike scrapped nine months earlier.

Jordan Brand's 41st Air Jordan game shoe, with a nano print mesh upper, ZoomX midsole and a new Air Zoom heel unit, launched first as a limited 'Ruby' release in China.

Stüssy and eYe JUNYA WATANABE MAN release a Fall/Winter 2026 collection of prep classics with Stüssy graphics on the back, from $65 tees to a $3,380 belted leather jacket.

Massport shut Boston Logan's Runway 9-27 from 31 August 2026 for 75 days to finish an Engineered Material Arresting System, a crushable bed on a deck partly over the harbour that stops planes overrunning Runway 27.

Verizon turned its Verizon Shine loyalty drops over to the NFL for the week before kickoff, giving away free tickets to every domestic regular-season game, 22 VIP team experiences and NFL Sunday Ticket from YouTube.

4K OLED TVs with gaming-specific features, available in 55-inch and 65-inch sizes.

Waymo began welcoming its first public riders in Denver on 1 September 2026, with a roughly 60-square-mile service area served only by its Zeekr-built Ojai robotaxi.