Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

A third season of the isekai comedy Tsukimichi -Moonlit Fantasy- was announced straight off the second season's finale, promising more of Makoto Misumi's wasteland kingdom-building.

Argentina's football association (AFA) and Adidas announced on 25 June 2024 an extension of their kit partnership until 2038, covering the men's, women's and youth teams and the 2026, 2030, 2034 and 2038 World Cups; financial terms were not disclosed.

A Quiet Place: Day One is a 2024 American apocalyptic horror film, written and directed by Michael Sarnoski, based on a story he conceived with John Krasinski. It is the third installment in the A Quiet Place film series, and a prequel spinoff of the first film.

Studio Durian's Look Back opens in Japanese theaters, adapting Tatsuki Fujimoto's one-shot manga about two aspiring young manga artists, Fujino and Kyomoto, whose creative partnership and rivalry shapes both their lives.

The Henderson, a curved Zaha Hadid-designed office tower on the world's most expensive building site, was completed in mid-2024 in Hong Kong's Central district.

Panama's Supreme Court overturned a 2006 law blocking new reservoirs, clearing the way for a dam on the Rio Indio meant to secure the Panama Canal's water supply against worsening droughts.

B.CMAY PICTURES' Yi Nian Yongheng 3rd Season begins streaming, continuing the Chinese donghua adaptation of Er Gen's xianxia web novel A Will Eternal as protagonist Bai Xiaochun climbs further through the cultivation world's ranks.

Alya is a transfer student enjoying popularity at her new high school, often sporting a cold shoulder while earning high marks in class.

HBC, the parent of Saks Fifth Avenue, agreed to acquire Neiman Marcus Group in a deal valued at $2.65 billion, combining Saks Fifth Avenue, Saks Off 5th, Neiman Marcus and Bergdorf Goodman under a new company, Saks Global, backed by equity from Amazon, Rhône Capital, Insight Partners and Salesforce.

“I have no interest in real girls!” So claims Okumura, the president of the school’s manga club. He’s your typical otaku, obsessed with a sexy (fictional) 2D manga character known as Lilliel.

The Kingdom of Clays faces a dire crisis: an assassination attempt has just been made on its own Princess Lynneburg, and its neighboring countries eye the aftermath like starving vultures, plotting the Kingdom’s downfall.

Shaft streams Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season, continuing the story of the girls Koyomi Araragi once saved after his own story concluded.

In the year 1333, the Kamakura shogunate government comes crumbling down. A trusted vassal, Ashikaga Takauji, betrays the shogunate and organizes a rebellion.

A hard-working boy named Will enters a magic academy in hopes of becoming a great sorcerer. Unfortunately, there's a fatal flaw in his plan: he lacks the ability to use magic.

Europe's new heavy-lift launcher Ariane 6, built by ArianeGroup, flew for the first time from the Guiana Space Centre. The inaugural flight met its main objectives despite an anomaly in an upper-stage auxiliary unit late in the mission.

Switzerland's competition commission cleared Rolex's acquisition of Bucherer without conditions, removing the last big regulatory hurdle to folding the world's largest watch retailer into Rolex.

Kazuhiko Nukumizu is a high school boy content to blend in with the background mob, until he witnessed his more popular classmate Anna Yanami get dumped by her childhood friend.

Burberry named Joshua Schulman, formerly of Coach and Michael Kors, as CEO with immediate effect, replacing Jonathan Akeroyd as the brand sought to fix a prolonged sales slump.

Ørsted broke ground on the 924 MW Sunrise Wind off Long Island on 17 July 2024 and now expects commercial operation in the second half of 2027, after first power later in 2026; the project was first billed as fully operational in 2026.

OpenAI introduces GPT-4o mini, its most capable and cost-efficient small model, surpassing GPT-3.5 Turbo on academic benchmarks.

Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199 begins release, an OVA continuation of the long-running Yamato franchise picking up from the Uchuu Senkan Yamato 2205 films as the crew presses further into the war with extradimensional forces.

An Illinois judge preliminarily approved Alo Moves' settlement of claims that it shared viewing data with Meta, giving each US class member who files by 18 November 2024 a voucher for three free months of classes.

Lingwu Continent is an iQIYI-streamed Chinese fantasy donghua from Soyep about a fallen prodigy who regains his power as a rare dual cultivator of spirit and martial arts.

The Chinese donghua Slay the Gods begins streaming, a Shenman Entertainment production in which a blind teenage night watchman battles mythic invaders threatening his world.

The FOMC held the federal funds target range at 5-1/4 to 5-1/2 percent on 31 July 2024 by a unanimous vote, with the unemployment rate having moved up.

Production I.G streams Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You Season 3, picking up right after Sawako and Kazehaya become a couple as their families and friends' own romances keep unfolding around them.

A 10,000 sq ft Alo flagship at 150 Regent Street with two floors of shop and Alo's first gym and wellness club in the UK.

The US General Services Administration reversed course on a $52M congressional earmark to demolish two historic Chicago Loop skyscrapers, opting to reuse them instead after a sustained preservation campaign.

The fourth season of the Chinese donghua comedy-fantasy Fabulous Beasts (You Shou Yan) streams online, continuing its manga-adapted story of mismatched humans and mythical beasts.

A second season of The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, the isekai comedy about a healer drilled into a battlefield medic, was announced on stage at Otakon 2024.

The second season of Rising Impact begins streaming, following golf prodigy Gawain and Camelot Academy's Japan team as they compete against gifted young golfers from UK and US schools in the Camelot Cup.

On August 11, 2024, the Martin JRM Mars flying boat "Hawaii Mars" made its final flight, escorted by Snowbirds jets, ending 78 years of service as the world’s largest water bomber.

OpenAI ships a GPT-4o update in ChatGPT that users preferred in experiments, while saying it is not a new frontier-class model.

NIST released the first three finalised post-quantum cryptography standards - FIPS 203, 204 and 205 - and told system administrators to start migrating immediately. They are the replacements for the public-key cryptography that a large quantum computer would break.

Crews finished carving three enormous caverns a mile beneath a former South Dakota gold mine to house the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment.

Cloud Art adapts the wuxia-flavored web novel Jian Lai, following an ordinary boy whose single sword strike is powerful enough to split the sky, as he works his way up from nobody to legendary swordsman by taking on increasingly formidable opponents. The 26-episode donghua run established enough of a following to earn a second season the following year.

Lamborghini revealed the Temerario at Monterey Car Week, a plug-in hybrid supercar with a twin-turbo V8 and three electric motors making a combined 920 PS (907 hp), reaching 213 mph and marking Lamborghini's return to a V8 mid-engined car for the first time since the 1981 Jalpa.

Sydney opened the City & Southwest section of its Sydney Metro, adding a new driverless rail crossing under Sydney Harbour and the CBD alongside the city's largest railway cavern.

The Taliban's Ministry of Justice published the Propagation of Virtue and Prevention of Vice law on 21 August 2024: 35 articles that make women cover their faces and bodies, bar their voices from being heard in public and stop them travelling without a male guardian.

Duke's Cooper Flagg, the No. 1 prospect for the 2025 NBA draft, signed a significant New Balance endorsement deal on 26 August 2024, choosing the Boston brand with a factory near his Maine home; the length and value were not reported.

Given: Hiiragi Mix Specials is a set of four short bonus stories bundled with the Blu-ray release of Given the Movie 2: Hiiragi Mix, animated by Lerche as an extension of the Given franchise.

The first phase of Queen's Wharf Brisbane, the AUD $3.6BN riverside district built around the historic Queen's Wharf site, opened to the public as Star Brisbane.

Prague and Stockholm signed a joint declaration to keep the Čáslav-based Saab JAS 39 Gripen fleet flying beyond the lease's 2027 expiry, until Czech F-35s arrive; the binding contract covering 12 jets to 2035 was still being negotiated the following year. The deal underpins the fleet's ongoing depot-level overhauls, which strip and rebuild each jet roughly every few years.

A plant-forward modern Southern restaurant in a century-old house in Montgomery's Cloverdale neighbourhood, run by nutrition professor Deanne Allegro with a staff of under ten.

OpenAI updates GPT-4o in ChatGPT to make better use of uploaded files and to save the key parts of a conversation to memory.

A vegan-certified Nutella that swaps milk for chickpeas and rice syrup, launched in Nutella's 60th year in Italy, France and Belgium in a 350g jar.

Alo's first performance shoe, a $185 unisex runner with a dual-density midsole and heel clip, went on sale online and in its US stores, backed by a campaign with Joe Burrow.

Verizon agreed to buy Frontier Communications, the largest pure-play US fiber provider, in an all-cash deal valued at $20 billion ($38.50 a share), adding 2.2 million fiber subscribers and reach to 25 million premises across 31 states and DC.