Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Seyi Vibez achieved the #3 music ranking of 2024 on Nigeria's TurnTable Official Nigeria Top 100. Seyi Vibez's Different Pattern is third on TurnTable's End of the Year Charts top 100 for 2024 (tracking to 19 December 2024).

Shohei Ohtani chose the Dodgers on a 10-year, $700 million contract, then the richest in sports, with $680 million deferred until 2034-2043 so that he is paid only $2 million a year during the term.

Elon Musk posts a video of Optimus Generation 2, which Tesla says walks 30% faster and weighs 10 kg less than its predecessor.

The FOMC left the federal funds target range at 5.25%-5.50% on 13 December 2023, with every voting member in favour.

Intel's Core Ultra launch (Meteor Lake) on December 14, 2023 brought the first client chiplet design on Foveros packaging, built on Intel 4, with Intel's first client NPU and the new Core Ultra brand.

On 14 December 2023 Pfizer completed its acquisition of cancer biotech Seagen for US$229 per share in cash, an enterprise value of about US$43 billion, and donated US Bavencio royalties to AACR to address FTC concerns.

On 15 December 2023 Maersk told ships bound for the Bab al-Mandab to pause after Houthi attacks, and within days it and other lines sent ships around Africa. The diversions cut traffic through the Suez Canal.

Chike & MohBad achieved the #2 music ranking of 2024 on Nigeria's TurnTable Official Nigeria Top 100. Chike's Egwu with the late MohBad is second on TurnTable's End of the Year Charts top 100 for 2024 (tracking to 19 December 2024), behind Twe Twe.

Bhutan's king announced Gelephu Mindfulness City, a special administrative economic zone of at least 2,500 km2 in the country's south, designed around Buddhist and Gross National Happiness values rather than a typical skyline.

The Surat Diamond Bourse in India took the title of world's largest office building from the Pentagon, built entirely to house the city's diamond-cutting and polishing trade.

On 18 December 2023 Adobe and Figma mutually terminated the deal announced in September 2022 after concluding there was no clear path to approval from the European Commission and the UK CMA.

12-year-old modern demigod Percy Jackson has just come to terms with his newfound supernatural powers when the sky god Zeus accuses him of stealing his master lightning bolt. Now Percy must trek across America to find it and restore order to Olympus. Season 1 premiere, "I Accidentally Vaporize My Pre-Algebra Teacher": Expelled from school, Percy Jackson unravels who he is, confronting a world of gods and monsters. Aired on Disney+.

On 21 December 2023 Microsoft listed Windows Mixed Reality as deprecated, saying it would be removed from Windows 11 version 24H2 and ending its first-party VR headset platform.

The Faroe Islands opened the Sandoyartunnilin, an 10.8km subsea tunnel linking Streymoy to the island of Sandoy, replacing a ferry crossing that could take an hour or more.

Georgia EPD’s 2023 notice identifies Aligned ATL01 at 1551 North River Road in Douglas County under application 29094 for a new data center with emergency generators. Aligned’s current Atlanta page confirms this Lithia Springs address.

BYD announced on 22 December 2023 it will build a passenger-car factory in Szeged, Hungary, its first in Europe, to be built in phases and create thousands of jobs.

Aito launched its flagship M9 SUV on 26 December 2023 at 469,800 to 569,800 yuan across extended-range and battery-electric versions; Huawei's Richard Yu said 54,000 pre-orders had been taken and 10,000 firm orders came within two hours.

Zeekr officially launched its first mainstream sedan, the 007, at an event in Hangzhou on 27 December 2023, starting at RMB 209,900, RMB 20,000 below the pre-sale price, with deliveries set for 1 January 2024.

At a three-hour technology launch on 28 December 2023 Xiaomi unveiled the SU7 sedan and said it wants to be a top-five global carmaker within 15-20 years; pricing was held back.

Alliant Energy's 50 MW Albany Solar project in Green County, Wisconsin, bought from Capital Dynamics and built in 2022-2023, was placed into service at the end of 2023; no project cost has been published.

The MSG Sphere is the largest spherical building in the world, providing Las Vegas' No. 1 immersive show experience. MSG Sphere interior screen measures 19,000 by 13,500 pixels covering a space that is more than three football pitches. It is 100 times crisper and more detailed than the best world-class HD TVs in the market.

邱軍 (Kui) achieved the #3 music ranking of 2024 on Taiwan's KKBOX Mandarin Yearly Cumulative Singles Chart. Kui's Love Me or Not is third on KKBOX's 2024 Mandarin yearly cumulative singles chart, behind his own number one.

BYD sold 526,409 battery-electric cars in Q4 2023, beating Tesla's 484,507 deliveries for the first time, and ended 2023 with 3,024,417 new energy vehicles, up 61.9%.

The third semester kicks off in high gear with a special boot camp deep in the mountains.

Hiiragi Utena is a major fangirl of the magical girls protecting her city, so when she has the chance to become one herself, she leaps at the chance to join their technicolor ranks… but when she transforms, she learns she isn’t fated to be a daring do-gooder, having unwittingly joined the villains fighting the very magical girls she once idolized.

Delicious in Dungeon begins its TV broadcast, an adventure-comedy from Studio TRIGGER in which a party of adventurers cooks and eats the monsters they encounter while descending a dungeon to rescue a devoured companion.

Sasaki is a middle-aged office worker living in Japan. Feeling drained by the vapid corporate world, he heads to the pet shop in search of a new companion. There he finds an adorable bird named Peeps and takes him home.