How to Check if Your PC Is Protected Against Meltdown and Spectre

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At some point in the past you subscribed to the How-To Geek newsletter, but if you'd like to change the frequency or unsubscribe, you can do so by clicking the button. Change my Subscription (or unsubscribe) Today's How-To Geek Articles What’s The Difference Between Bluetooth A2DP And aptX? How to Retrain Your Google Assistant Voice Model How to “Snooze” Someone for 30 Days on Facebook How to Check if Your PC Is Protected Against Meltdown and Spectre How to Get to the Old Uninstall Programs Panel on Windows 10 How to Check if Your Linux System Is 32-bit or 64-bit Google Calendar Got Rid of Its Best Feature in the New Design Does Uploading Count Towards My Data Cap? How to See Your Archived Stories on Instagram Microsoft Sucks at Naming Products Today's Review Geek Articles Charge Your iPhone Wirelessly with These Qi Chargers The Best Switch Games to Play On the Go Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Archived Topic In the context of online forums and discussion websites, an Archived Topic is a topic/discussion that has been closed to any and all further new messages, changes, voting, editing, etc. What We're Reading This section contains what we're reading from around the web, along with commentary from our editors. Think of it like your daily digest of the most interesting things online. Bringing it all together with Google Pay Google is combining Android Pay and Google Wallet into a single product, here's their announcement. [Official Google Blog] Alexa to live in new Windows 10 PCs launching later this year Your next laptop could have Alexa built in by support, which will probably make Cortana all kinds of upset. [Ars Technica] Large Shareholders Ask Apple To Help Wean Digital-Addicted Youths The shareholders in question own $2 billion worth of stock, and want Apple to think more about how their devices are affecting kids' mental development. [NPR] What’s The Difference Between Bluetooth A2DP And aptX? Bluetooth headphones are all the rage now, after spending the better part of a decade as a niche restricted to tech enthusiasts. Now you can find an incredible variety of Bluetooth headphones on electronic store shelves, and even more online. But as with almost all product categories, not every set of wireless headphones is created equal. Read This Article → How to Retrain Your Google Assistant Voice Model There may come a time when you need to retrain your Google Assistant’s voice model—that is, the one that detects the “OK Google” command. For example, “Hey Google” recently started rolling out on phones, so you’ll need to retrain the voice model to accept this new phrase. Read This Article → How to “Snooze” Someone for 30 Days on Facebook Until now, there was no way to temporarily remove someone from your News Feed on Facebook. You could Block or Unfollow someone, but this was a permanent solution. If you wanted to see their posts again, you'd need to deliberately go back and unblock or refollow them. Read This Article → How to Check if Your PC Is Protected Against Meltdown and Spectre Warning: Even if you’ve installed patches from Windows Update, your PC may not completely protected from the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws. Here’s how to check if you’re fully protected, and what to do if you aren’t. Read This Article → How to Get to the Old Uninstall Programs Panel on Windows 10 Windows 10 still includes the classic Uninstall Programs panel, also known as the “Programs and Features” window. But it’s buried by default, as Microsoft really wants you to use the Apps > Apps & features page in the new Settings interface instead. Read This Article → How to Check if Your Linux System Is 32-bit or 64-bit Most modern computers are capable of running a 64-bit operating system. But just because a computer supports it doesn’t mean that’s what’s running. Here’s how to tell whether you’re running a 32-bit or 64-bit version of Linux. Read This Article → Google Calendar Got Rid of Its Best Feature in the New Design A few months ago, Google launched a new design for Google Calendar—and frankly, it was long overdue. Google Calendar has been using the same interface for ages, and the new one is nice and modern…except it’s missing Google Calendar’s best feature: adding events with natural language, like “Dinner with Mom at 6pm”. Read This Article → Does Uploading Count Towards My Data Cap? If you’re new to the whole “data cap” life—or are just trying to get a better idea of how to tame your data usage—then there’s something you should know: it isn’t just about downloading. Read This Article → How to See Your Archived Stories on Instagram Stories have been one of the biggest social network features of the last few years. Snapchat rolled them out first, but now every social network from WhatsApp to Instagram has stories. There's also been a shift away from disappearing messages. People no longer seem to really want the photos they take to vanish into the ether. To that end, Instagram has recently added a Stories Archive. Now when you create an Instagram Story, it's automatically saved to the Archive. Read This Article → Microsoft Sucks at Naming Products Microsoft is bad at naming things. Their recent renaming of the “Windows Store” to the “Microsoft Store” is just the latest in a long line of confusing and silly product names. Read This Article →