Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

January 2024: the trade gap was $67.4 billion, up $3.3 billion from the revised prior month. Exports rose to $257.2 billion and imports rose to $324.6 billion. Released March 7, 2024.

Hayao Miyazaki and Toshio Suzuki's The Boy and the Heron won Best Animated Feature at the 96th Academy Awards on 10 March 2024, Miyazaki's second Oscar after Spirited Away.

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.

Porsche premiered the Taycan Turbo GT on 11 March 2024: 580 kW (778 hp) normally and up to 815 kW (1,108 PS) with Launch Control, 0-100 km/h in 2.3 s (2.2 s with the two-seat Weissach package), a 105 kWh battery and up to 555 km WLTP, from GBP 186,300 in the UK.

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.

NVIDIA unveils Blackwell: a 208-billion-transistor GPU on TSMC 4NP, the GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchip (two B200 GPUs and a Grace CPU) and the 72-GPU GB200 NVL72 rack. Partner products are stated for later in 2024.

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.

Artemas achieved the #1 music ranking of 2024 on Germany's GfK Top 100 Singles. Artemas's 'I Like the Way You Kiss Me' is the best-performing single of 2024 in Germany per Wikipedia's list and the German year-end list, having topped the weekly chart for four issues in April 2024.

Henderson Place’s 2026 resident-selection packet identifies 76 affordable homes: nine studios, 35 one-bedroom, 29 two-bedroom and three three-bedroom apartments. [2] Mercy Housing published its redevelopment announcement March 20, 2024.

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.

Oak Run’s operator confirms approval of its up-to-800 MW Madison County proposal near Plumwood. OPSB’s published case summary includes up to 300 MW storage, and its March 21, 2024 announcement records the approval.

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.

Boom Supersonic's one-third-scale XB-1 demonstrator for the Overture airliner flew for the first time on 22 March 2024 from Mojave Air & Space Port, reaching 7,120 feet and 238 knots.

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.

West Virginia’s regulator records Deep Lake Energy Center’s application for a 150 MW solar generating facility on approximately 1,521 acres in Nicholas and Clay counties.

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.

BYD launched the Yuan Up, its first A0-class SUV on e-Platform 3.0, on 26 March 2024 from RMB 96,800 with 301 km or 401 km of CLTC range and a 0% loan offer.

Xiaomi put the SU7 on sale in Beijing on 28 March 2024 at 215,900, 245,900 and 299,900 yuan, undercutting the Tesla Model 3, and booked 88,898 firm orders in the first 24 hours.

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.

Rose Villain ft. Guè achieved the #2 music ranking of 2024 on Italy's FIMI Top of the Music. Rose Villain's bachata-and-rap collaboration with Guè, the third single from Radio Sakura, was Italy's second-biggest single of 2024 on the FIMI year-end list.

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.