Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

On 1 February 2024 Scuderia Ferrari announced that seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton would join the team in 2025 on a multi-year contract, replacing Carlos Sainz alongside Charles Leclerc.

Aldi Nord said it would close two regional companies, with their warehouses and offices, at the 2024/25 year end and hand their 146 stores to neighbouring regions; the admin and logistics staff lose their workplaces.

At the 66th Grammys at Crypto.com Arena, Taylor Swift won Album of the Year for Midnights, a record fourth, and announced The Tortured Poets Department from the stage. Miley Cyrus's 'Flowers' won Record of the Year, Billie Eilish and Finneas Song of the Year and Victoria Monét Best New Artist; SZA led with nine nominations.

Nutella opens a year of celebrations for its 60th birthday on World Nutella Day 2024, with limited-edition character jars and a global #GiveANutellaSmile campaign.

Chanel opened a two-story, 3,200-square-foot boutique dedicated entirely to Watches and Fine Jewellery at 730 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan's landmark 1921 Crown Building, its first store of this kind in the United States.

Dubai's One Za'abeel opened to the public, its twin towers joined by The Link, a 230-metre skybridge that went on to set the Guinness World Record for longest cantilevered building.

Ferrara's Nerds makes its Super Bowl debut in Super Bowl LVIII with a Flashdance-inspired spot introducing a Nerds Gummy Clusters character, with Addison Rae.

Red Dog Culture House streams The Girl Downstairs SP, a bonus episode of the webtoon-adapted donghua The Girl Downstairs, revisiting ex-celebrity Du-Na and her downstairs neighbor Won-Jun.

Blank-check company Flame Acquisition merged with Sable Offshore and, the same day, bought ExxonMobil's three Santa Ynez Unit platforms, the Las Flores Canyon plant and the pipeline behind the 2015 Refugio spill, financed by a $625 million Exxon term loan. The new NYSE-listed Sable set out to restart production shut in since 2015.

Ferrero's turnover jumped 20.7% to EUR 17 billion in the year to 31 August 2023, boosted by the Wells Enterprises ice-cream deal; plants rose from 32 to 37 and staff to 47,212.

Google unveils Gemini 1.5 Pro, a mixture-of-experts model that matches Gemini 1.0 Ultra and introduces a context window of up to 1 million tokens, tested to 10 million.

Production I.G's HAIKYU!! The Dumpster Battle opens in Japanese theaters, adapting the Haikyu!! manga's climactic Spring Nationals showdown between Karasuno High and rival powerhouse Nekoma High.

Alabama's Supreme Court held that frozen IVF embryos count as children under the state's 1872 Wrongful Death of a Minor Act, letting couples sue a Mobile clinic whose embryos were destroyed and pushing clinics to pause IVF.

Alo Yoga's first UAE store, run with franchise partner Alshaya Group: an 833 m² flagship in The Dubai Mall with an organic beverage bar and a yoga terrace.

adidas announced on 26 February 2024 a long-term partnership with 16-year-old Barcelona forward Lamine Yamal, who becomes the only player besides Lionel Messi to wear Messi's 'Spark Gen10s' X Crazyfast boots; length and value were not disclosed.

Emaar restarted work on the long-stalled Dubai Creek Tower after redesigning it to stand shorter than the Burj Khalifa.

Meeting in Congress at Versailles on 4 March 2024, France's deputies and senators voted 780 to 72 to add women's guaranteed freedom to have an abortion to the Constitution, the first country to do so.

Anthropic releases Claude 3 Sonnet, the middle model of its new Claude 3 family, twice as fast as Claude 2.1 on most workloads at $3 per million input tokens and the model behind the free claude.ai.

Governor Kay Ivey signed SB159, shielding IVF patients, clinics and suppliers from lawsuits and prosecution over damaged or destroyed embryos, three weeks after the LePage ruling halted treatment.

Mumbai opened the first phase of its Coastal Road, an eight-lane highway built on reclaimed land and sea-facing tunnels along the Arabian Sea.

Anthropic releases Claude 3 Haiku, the fastest and cheapest Claude 3 model at $0.25 per million input tokens, able to read about 30 pages of text per second, nine days after announcing it with Opus and Sonnet.

The French National Assembly unanimously adopted, in first reading, a bill to curb "ultra-fast fashion" on 14 March 2024. The bill bans advertising for the cheapest, most disposable garments and creates a bonus-malus system funding penalties on the least sustainable clothing sellers.

On 18 March 2024 Cisco closed its purchase of Splunk for US$157 a share in cash, about US$28 billion in equity value, the largest acquisition in the networking giant's history.

Tina Cavalleri, Mark Glinoga and Mengyao Yang filed a proposed antitrust class action in San Francisco federal court, accusing Hermès of forcing customers to buy other Hermès products before it will sell them a Birkin or Kelly bag.

The FOMC held the federal funds target range at 5-1/4 to 5-1/2 percent on 20 March 2024 by a unanimous vote, and its projections pointed to a lower rate by year-end.

The German football federation (DFB) announced on 21 March 2024 that Nike will equip all its national teams from 2027 to 2034, ending a partnership with Adidas of more than seven decades; the DFB said Nike made by far the best financial offer.

Egypt's 93,000-seat New Administrative Capital Stadium opened as the centrepiece of an Olympic City the country hopes will support a first-ever African bid to host the Games.

Aston Martin named Adrian Hallmark, chairman and chief executive of Bentley Motors since 2018, as its new chief executive, succeeding Amedeo Felisa no later than 1 October 2024.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire is a 2024 American monster film directed and co-written by Adam Wingard. Produced by Legendary Pictures and distributed by Warner Bros.

The Francis Scott Key Bridge, a 2.6km truss bridge carrying I-695 over Baltimore's Patapsco River since 1977, collapsed after being struck by a container ship, killing several construction workers.

The founder of FTX was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to 25 years in prison and ordered to forfeit more than $11bn, four months after a jury convicted him on seven counts of fraud and conspiracy over the theft of customer deposits from the cryptocurrency exchange.

Valentino announced Alessandro Michele, who had spent eight years as Gucci's creative director before leaving in late 2022, as its new creative director, succeeding Pierpaolo Piccioli after his 25-year run at the house.

China removed the anti-dumping and countervailing duties of up to 220% that had shut Australian bottled wine out of its market since 2020, effective 29 March 2024; Australia's wine exports to China had been worth A$1.1 billion in 2019.

Cloud Art's donghua adaptation Zhu Xian returns for a second season, continuing its wuxia-fantasy story of a young disciple caught between rival martial sects amid a war for control of a legendary sword.

Lawrence is a traveling merchant selling various goods from a horse-drawn cart. One day, he arrives at a village and meets a beautiful girl with the ears and tail of an animal!

After meeting an untimely death, Tomokui Kanata is reincarnated as a lowly goblin, but he’s worked up a monstrous appetite.

Within the narrow walls of the Outdoor Activities Club room, the few but lively members carry on the camping spirit as they have fun with DIY club experiments.

Sound! Euphonium 3 follows Kumiko Oumae's final year at Kitauji High School, now band president, as she pushes the more than 90-member concert band toward the nationals gold it has long chased.

The TV anime of Miraijin A's reincarnation fantasy premieres from studio MOTHER, following Ars Louvent as he uses his Appraisal skill to recruit talented retainers for his family's small territory.

The second cour of Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation Season 2 begins airing, as Rudeus Greyrat and Sylphiette hold their wedding party and Rudeus faces what his new life asks of him.

The Magical Kingdom of Klyrode summons hundreds of heroes from other worlds every year to fight in their war against the Dark One and his army of powerful demons.

Production I.G's adaptation of Kaiju No. 8 begins airing, as monster-disposal worker Kafka Hibino gains the power of the creatures he cleans up and chases his abandoned dream of joining the Defense Force.

Elon Musk told Tesla staff the company would cut more than 10% of its roughly 140,000 jobs worldwide to reduce costs, as senior executives Drew Baglino and Rohan Patel left and the shares fell more than 5%.

miHoYo releases Genshin Impact: The Song Burning in the Embers, a promotional animated short for the video game tied to its Fontaine story arc.

miHoYo's in-house animation arm launches an ongoing string of short, self-contained episodes built around individual Genshin Impact characters, each running only a few minutes but paired with full original scoring and film-quality visuals. The shorts fill in backstory for the game's cast without requiring any prior familiarity with Teyvat, making them as much stand-alone shorts as promotional tie-ins.

Brightline West broke ground on a 218-mile electric high-speed line between Las Vegas and Southern California, aiming to become America's first true bullet train.

The FTC filed suit in federal court and issued an administrative complaint to stop Tapestry, owner of Coach and Kate Spade, from buying Capri Holdings' Michael Kors, arguing the deal would eliminate head-to-head competition in accessible-luxury handbags.

Georgia's Plant Vogtle Unit 4 entered commercial operation in April 2024, completing the first new nuclear reactors built from scratch in the US in over three decades.

The US Preventive Services Task Force finalises its advice that all women get a mammogram every other year from age 40 to 74, lowering the start age from 50.