Pins matching date:2026-12-31

A 30-metre segmented-mirror telescope stalled for a decade by opposition to building on Mauna Kea, with La Palma as the alternate site. Estimated date.

Portable cassette player with an ultra-thin brushless-motor mechanism and Bluetooth transmission.

Five Points Development's slender 262 Fifth Avenue condo tower topped out in Manhattan's NoMad district in 2024 and is on track to open in 2026, drawing criticism for blocking classic views of the nearby Empire State Building.

Amazon says it has launched enough Leo satellites for initial service and will open its satellite broadband to consumers later in 2026, after an enterprise preview that began April 8.

Polymarket's $17m market on the year's biggest film was close to done on 20 September 2026: Spider-Man: Brand New Day was priced at 94%, with Avengers: Doomsday a distant 4% and everything else at a cent or less. It resolves on Box Office Mojo's 2026 domestic calendar gross once 31 December's numbers land.

Polymarket's contract on China commencing a military offensive against any inhabited territory Taiwan administers, on or before December 31, 2026, showed a 4% chance on 20 September 2026 — its own note put the implied probability of no invasion at 95.8%. A separate market on any direct China-Taiwan military clash over the same window showed 6%.

Kalshi’s year-high ladder for Ethereum settles on the highest price ETH touches in 2026. On 20 September 2026, with ether near $2,600, traders gave $3,500 a 30% chance, $4,000 22% and $5,000 9%. Polymarket’s equivalent book was a little more optimistic, pricing a touch of $3,000 at 59.5%.

Kalshi settles its annual SpaceX launch tally at the end of 2026. On 20 September 2026 above 120 launches was all but certain at 97%, above 140 traded at 68% and above 150 at 11%. Polymarket’s bucketed version agreed, putting 140–159 at 75.9%.

The last five of the eight Batch 1 buildings in Phase 1 of the Hong Kong Park of the Hetao Shenzhen-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Co-operation Zone begin coming on stream at the Lok Ma Chau Loop. Two wet laboratory buildings and a talent accommodation block were finished first and the Hong Kong Park was officially opened in December 2025.

A 3.5 km fully underground northern extension carries the Daxing airport line one stop on from Caoqiao to Lize Shangwuqu in Fengtai District, bringing the airport service closer to central Beijing. Work on the extension started in 2020.

The 44-acre former exhibition site won consent from Hammersmith & Fulham on 26 November 2025 and Kensington & Chelsea on 16 December 2025, a decade after the exhibition halls came down. Phase one of the GBP 10bn masterplan covers the first 1,300 homes, offices, a cultural venue and a 4.5-acre park, with the whole site due to be finished by 2043.

Finland's Posiva began drilling the first deposition hole at the Onkalo repository, a step toward becoming the world's first facility to permanently bury spent nuclear fuel.

Playground Games confirmed Forza Horizon 6 is still launching on PlayStation 5 within 2026, refuting a report that the open-world racer had slipped to 2027 and putting it on a collision course with GTA 6's release window.

Powered bookshelf speakers with a Tractrix horn tweeter, Cerametallic woofer, and HDMI ARC.

The 53-storey DC Tower 2 is rising beside its twin in Donau City using a jump-form climbing system, on track to finish out the district by the end of 2026.

On December 31, 2026 Polymarket settles who officially holds Venezuela's head of state office. Acting president Delcy Rodríguez was sworn in on January 5 after U.S. troops captured Nicolás Maduro, and both still claim it: on 20 September 2026 the market's outcome row put Maduro at 47% and showed no percentage at all beside Rodríguez, only a 48¢ Buy Yes price.

Amazon MGM's search for the seventh James Bond is one of the most heavily traded entertainment markets on either exchange. On 20 September 2026 Polymarket had Jack Lowden at 42% and Callum Turner at 20% - but also a 20% chance no Bond is named by 31 December 2026 at all; Kalshi's longer market had Lowden in the mid-40s and Turner in the high 30s.

On 20 September 2026 Polymarket's ladder on a ceasefire that takes effect and holds for ten straight days gave December 31, 2026 a 15% chance, and October 31 only 5%. Ukraine signing any written peace instrument with Russia before 2027 was at 11%, and Kalshi put a first in-person Putin-Zelenskyy meeting before 2027 at 7%.

Kalshi settles its year-end ranking market on which lab holds the top AI model on December 31, 2026 — the exchange’s biggest AI book at 11.5M contracts. On 20 September 2026 Claude led at 71.5%, ahead of ChatGPT at 13.6%, Gemini at 8.9% and Grok at 4.1%.

Sungei Bedok opens as the terminus of Thomson-East Coast Line Stage 5 and of the Downtown Line 3 extension, making it the interchange between the two lines. It sits above the East Coast Integrated Depot, the world's first depot stacking three rail lines and a bus depot on one site, and opens alongside Bedok South and Xilin stations.

Line 22, built as the Pinggu line, is the first inter-provincial metro line between Beijing and Hebei: 81.82 km and 22 stations from Dongdaqiao in Chaoyang through Tongzhou and Sanhe in Hebei out to Pinggu, using 8-car Type D trains at up to 160 km/h. Empty trial running between Hongmiao and Pinggu began on 25 August 2026; Jintai Xizhao and Dongdaqiao are held back to 2029.

The first 8.4 km section of the Phase 4 Golden Line, from Tughlakabad to Sangam Vihar, is targeted to open in December 2026; the rest of the 29.785 km Delhi Aerocity-Tughlakabad corridor, 19 stations with 12 of them underground, follows in phases. By April 2026 civil work was 78 per cent done with five tunnel boring machines still at work, and trainsets had begun arriving at the modified Sarita Vihar depot.

Chubby Group's yakiniku concept is moving into the vacated Red Lobster on Mira Mesa Boulevard, a few doors from the Menya Ultra it will share the neighbourhood with. The company says the site is "on Chubby Cattle's radar" for later in 2026.

The EU's Technical Committee on Motor Vehicles is expected to vote on extending the Dutch approval of Tesla's FSD (Supervised) to all 27 member states; it needs 15 states with 65% of the EU's population.