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Watch IIHF World Championship 2026 live streams, as newly crowned Olympic champions the USA look to defend their world title in Zurich and Fribourg, Switzerland. The US join 15 of the world’s top sides, include a Canada side intent on revenge, for a festival on ice.

The difficulty for the US side, now led by Don Granato, is that a lot of their gold medal-winning roster from Milano-Cortina are still in Stanley Cup contention and will be absent. Matthew Tkachuk is playing, though, as they seek more gold.

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As wireless communications evolve from static spectrum allocations toward dynamic, shared access models, RF coexistence has become a critical engineering challenge. Over 30 billion connected devices now compete for finite spectrum resources. The 2.4 GHz ISM band alone hosts Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, ZigBee, and many other overlapping protocols. Meanwhile, high-value spectrum auctions such as FCC Auction 107 have placed 5G transmitters adjacent to safety-critical systems like aircraft radar altimeters and GPS receivers. These incumbent systems were designed before co-channel interference was a concern. Standards like ANSI C63.27, tiered sharing frameworks like CBRS, and cognitive radio systems using AI and software-defined radios offer practical paths forward. This guide examines these coexistence challenges, reviews real-world interference case studies, and outlines the test architectures needed to evaluate RF device performance under realistic operational conditions.

Elon Musk’s newly rebranded SpaceXAI is reportedly losing top talent, with more than 50 researchers and engineers departing since February, according to The Information. The exits include key leaders across coding, world models, and Grok voice. 

Rivals like Meta and Thinking Machines Lab are reportedly scooping up former staff, with the company’s core pre-training team dwindling to just a handful of people. Since February, at least 11 xAI employees have defected to Meta, according to The Information’s report. At least seven have left to join Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab. TechCrunch has previously reported on 11 of the xAI departures announced directly after the merger, including two co-founders.

SpaceX acquired xAI — two companies owned by Musk — in February and has since installed new leadership at the company. Musk renamed the combined company SpaceXAI earlier this month.

The pre-training departures, which followed the exit of team lead Juntang Zhuang, have particularly concerned employees and people close to SpaceXAI, per The Information. Pre-training is the first step to building new AI models, and many have questioned whether the company is still committed to developing leading models. 

The report also found that Musk’s culture of extreme work led some staff to leave — something Musk employees across his companies, including Tesla, have complained about. A source who spoke to The Information said Musk set unrealistic deadlines for training models, which led to cutting corners on Grok. 

Of course, several of the exits could have been driven by a desire to cash out.

SpaceX regularly offers tenders so employees can sell vested shares privately. Others might simply feel confident that their equity is close to liquidity given the company’s blockbuster IPO expectations. Once employees see the financial light at the end of the tunnel, they’re less likely to work at a company that puts undue pressure on them and may not be building the leading models they want to work on.

TechCrunch has reached out to SpaceX for comment.

Sharing files between Android and iPhone has always been a pain, but Google is quietly fixing that. The company launched a new Quick Share feature that made Android devices compatible with Apple’s AirDrop, allowing users to easily transfer files between iPhones and Android devices. 

However, not all Android devices have the hardware to support Quick Share-AirDrop compatibility, which means not all Android smartphones can access this feature. To solve this problem, Google announced a new QR code-based file-sharing system, which allows any Android device to transfer files to iPhones. 

How does it work?

With this new method, an Android phone generates a QR code for sharing files. The iPhone user scans it with the default Camera app, and the file is uploaded to the cloud and transferred to the recipient. 

Note that anyone with access to the QR code can download the file without requiring any permission. So ensure that you only share the QR code with people you trust. I like that the whole experience is surprisingly smooth for something that has historically required third-party workarounds.

Who is this for?

This feature is specifically designed for Android phones that don’t yet have native Quick Share-AirDrop compatibility built in. Instead of relying on a direct device-to-device connection, it uses QR codes and cloud transfers to move files between Android and iOS.

If you don’t see the feature on your device yet, don’t panic. Google said it will be fully available across all Android phones within the next month. On the native AirDrop compatibility front, Google also confirmed that it’s expanding support beyond Pixel and Samsung phones to include OPPO, OnePlus, Vivo, Xiaomi, and HONOR devices this year. 

Google is also planning to bring Quick Share inside third-party apps like WhatsApp soon. Between the QR code sharing and the expanding AirDrop compatibility, cross-platform file sharing is finally getting the attention it deserves.

During a call with investors on Wednesday night, Cisco executives discussed the layoffs further, with CFO Mark Patterson saying, “This was really not a savings-driven restructure,” according to a transcript of the call.

“Things are moving incredibly fast right now,” he said. “And this is more realigning from an already strong base, as you’re seeing in our financials, but really realigning resources around silicon, optics, security, and AI. And so being able to move fast, we don’t always have the exact resources that we need going forward in the right places. And so that’s really what this is about versus savings.”

Due to the layoffs, Cisco expects to “recognize up to $1 billion of pre-tax charges with $450 million to be recognized in the Q4 FY ’26 and the remainder during FY ’27,” Patterson added.

“These [layoffs] are building from a position of strength and focusing on the technologies that will accelerate our growth, deliver unmatched innovation to customers and partners, and define our future,” Robbins said on the call.

Bonuses and training for laid-off workers

Robbins’ blog post said that affected workers will receive “pro-rated payment” of fiscal 2026 bonuses. The company also says it will offer services to help laid-off employees find new jobs.

“We will provide support in finding new opportunities, whether internal or external, through Cisco’s placement services—a program that has seen 75 percent of participants discover their next role,” Robbins said. “We are also committed to continued personalized learning and will provide one year of access to all Cisco U courses and certifications, covering AI, security, networking, and more.”

This round of layoffs follows the dismissal of 4,245 employees, or 5 percent of the workforce at the time, in February 2024, and about 6,000 people, or about 7 percent of the workforce, in August 2024. Cisco also attributed the latter layoffs to the need to restructure around AI and security, The Register reported at the time.

LA Chargers fans who stayed up late on schedule night were in for a treat this year. The team effectively transformed the entire 2026 lineup into a Halo-inspired trip that would fit right in with the games themselves. Microsoft collaborated with the Chargers to make all of the details inside the Halo game engine look right at home, and let me tell you, the end result feels like stepping into a custom Halo campaign, where each opponent becomes its own battlefield map, full of sneaky references that will only be picked up by true NFL and Halo fans from the start.

The Halo series’ voice talent is all over this thing, including Jeff Steitzer, who has been shouting legendary game lines for years. while maps start loading and rolling in one after the other, he still has the stamina to call out dates and places in the same over-the-top approach he used to use while shouting about flag captures and double kills. Screens range from recognizable Halo sky and ring buildings to weapon crates, but each has some extra-clever features related to the next match. If you scan the scenes quickly, you’ll see logos, player allusions, and inside jokes that make the schedule reveal feel like a real event rather than just a list on a screen.

The preseason schedule begins on August 13, with a travel to Houston to face the Texans under the lights. Two weeks later, the 49ers visit SoFi Stadium on a Thursday night, and the final tune-up is the Chargers’ home game versus the LA Rams on the 27th. That sets the tone before things get serious in September.

The Cards visit town on September 13, which marks the start of week one. The map for that game features a beautiful desert landscape blended with Covenant technology, a great tribute to the Cardinals’ desert background. Week two is a local matchup versus the Raiders on September 20th. The Raiders’ silver and black blend in with the Halo color palette, and it’s only after you see them that they feel intentional. Next week, on the journey to Buffalo on the 27th, the map has a cooler tone and includes big open fields that reflect the Bills’ outdoor approach.

October begins with a road trip to Seattle on October 4th. The Seahawks map shows Pacific Northwest mist flowing over some Forerunner ruins. Back home on the 11th, the Broncos will arrive, and the map here jumps out the most. There’s a slow-motion shot of a grenade arcing at an ankle joint, a direct reference to one of the significant injuries from the previous postseason. The first game against the Chiefs is scheduled on October 18 in Kansas City. Then there’s a QR code on the screen that the curious can scan to reveal an extra little jab at the presenters.

Adobe has confirmed that its Premiere video editing app will arrive on Android, with Google announcing the news as part of a broader set of creator-focused features tied to the Android 17 platform reveal at The Android Show.

The confirmation moves the app beyond the vague “in development” status that Adobe attached to it last year, though Google’s announcement stops short of a firm release date and describes the arrival window as only “soon,” offering little clarity for creators who have been waiting since the original disclosure.

According to Google’s blog post accompanying the Android 17 announcement, the Android version of Adobe Premiere will include exclusive templates and effects specifically oriented toward YouTube Shorts, a focus that signals Adobe and Google are positioning the app as a tool for short-form content creation rather than a full-featured editing suite from the outset.

The iOS version of Adobe Premiere, which launched in September 2025, offers a broader set of capabilities that provide a reasonable indication of what Android users may eventually receive once the app reaches feature parity on the platform.

That iOS release supports background removal, automatic captioning, multi-platform video resizing, and the kind of transition effects that have become standard across TikTok, Instagram Reels, and YouTube Shorts content, functions that represent the core editing toolkit most mobile creators currently rely on third-party apps to access.

The app operates on a free-to-use model on iOS, with the only paid element covering Firefly generative AI credits for users who want access to Adobe’s AI-powered generation tools beyond the standard feature set.

While the Android release date remains unconfirmed, Google has introduced several other creator tools in the Android 17 update, including a simplified workflow for reaction video production and Android-exclusive features within Instagram’s Edits app, giving creators alternatives to bridge the gap ahead of Premiere’s arrival.

Adobe has not published a roadmap or feature breakdown for the Android release beyond what Google included in its announcement, leaving the full scope of the app’s initial capabilities on the platform unconfirmed.