Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

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.

Dan Dao Zhizun is a long-running Chinese cultivation-fantasy donghua from Ruo Hong Culture that has aired new episodes continuously since late 2023. Like most entries in the genre, it follows a rising alchemist-cultivator's climb through a hierarchy of sects and realms, building on a large episode count typical of the format's serialized, web-novel-driven pacing.

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.

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.

Google identifies Fort Wayne as an operating data center. The dated milestone on this page is its 2024 groundbreaking, not the opening date.

Meta’s site-specific information sheet describes the Aiken County, South Carolina data centre as a forthcoming facility. The global directory records a 2024 groundbreaking; no confirmed opening date was found.

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.

CONNECT's The Unwanted Undead Adventurer (Nozomanu Fushi no Boukensha): Rentt Faina has hunted monsters for the last 10 years. Sadly, he’s not great at his job, stuck hunting slimes and goblins for a few coins each day. His luck turns when he finds an undiscovered path. At the path’s end, he meets his demise in the maw of a legendary dragon. But, he wakes up as an undead bag of bones! He sets out to achieve Existential Evolution and rejoin the land of the living. (Source: Crunchyroll) Note: Each episode streamed 3 days early on some streaming sites. The original TV broadcast started on January 8th, 2024.

An ordinary walk home from school turns into an epic journey for Usato. After suddenly being dropped into another world with two fellow students, Usato learns he was summoned there by accident.

After Mash Burnedead's clash with Magia Lupus, the secret about his powers is now out in the open.

Shin-Ei Animation's second season of The Dangers in My Heart begins airing, continuing the slow-burn romance between self-styled dark-hearted Kyoutarou Ichikawa and his classmate Anna Yamada.

They say whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, but that’s not the case for the world’s weakest hunter Seong Jin-U.