Chronopin: upcoming release dates, events and other important dates

Lionel Messi missed an early penalty, then scored twice to pass Miroslav Klose as the World Cup's all-time top scorer as Argentina beat Austria 2-0.

Kylian Mbappé scored twice and Ousmane Dembélé once as France beat Iraq 3-0 at Lincoln Financial Field and reached the round of 32 with a group game to spare.

Nike hired Pfizer finance chief David Denton as EVP and chief financial officer from 17 August 2026, replacing Matt Friend, and warned in the same release that fourth-quarter results would include an unplanned benefit from tariff refunds.

Harvard, Tishman Speyer and Breakthrough Properties cut the ribbon on the first phase of the Enterprise Research Campus in Allston: two commercial laboratory buildings called OneMilestone, the 343-apartment Verra, the Atlas Hotel, Harvard's David Rubenstein Treehouse conference centre, 40,000 square feet of retail and more than two acres of public open space. It is the opening move on a 36-acre site, with a Phase B of labs, offices and housing still to be permitted.

Qualcomm and Meta signed a multi-generation agreement making Qualcomm a data-centre CPU supplier to Meta, whose next-generation server fleet is to run Qualcomm's Dragonfly C1000, in production from the second half of 2028.

At its 2026 Investor Day in New York, Qualcomm branded its data-center products Dragonfly and unveiled the 250-plus-core Dragonfly C1000 CPU, the AI300 accelerator and High Bandwidth Compute memory, with Meta signed up for the CPU; the stock jumped 15%.

Gonzalo Plata's 77th-minute goal gave Ecuador a 2-1 comeback win over Germany at MetLife Stadium and a knockout place as a third-placed side.

Daizen Maeda and Anthony Elanga traded goals in a 1-1 draw in Arlington that sent both Japan and Sweden into the World Cup knockouts.