What Is WPA3, and When Will I Get It On My Wi-Fi?

Did You Know? What we, in the English speaking world, call “beer steins” aren’t called such in Germany (the country with which the heavy hinge-lidded earthenware drinking mugs are most closely associated). In Germany, they are called “krug” or “steinkrug” and the usage in English is believed to have originated from the truncation of the German word for stoneware, “steinzeug”. Geek Trivia The First Metal Group To Reach The Top Of The Billboard Charts Was? Black Sabbath → Kiss → Megadeth → Quiet Riot → Advertisement Try The New and Improved CleanMyPC 1.8.9 with Smart Uninstaller If you want to clean up your PC the easy way, CleanMyPC is a great tool to get the job done easily, and it will even keep your computer clean automatically. The Uninstaller module can find and erase any app completely with no leftovers. The improved module includes the Safety Database to make uninstallation more accurate and safe. Free Download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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 How to Watch or Stream the 2018 Super Bowl (Without Cable) How to Hide Your Activity Status on Instagram How to Share Your Work Under a Creative Commons License What Is WPA3, and When Will I Get It On My Wi-Fi? Ditch Your PC's Calculator App and Use a Real One Instead How to Enable Fast User Switching in macOS Low Profile Switches Are Coming to Shrink Your Mechanical Keyboards How to See Your Most Used Apps on Android Should You Repair Your Own Phone or Laptop? Today's Review Geek Articles Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Have Formed the Perfect Streaming Trifecta The Best Podcast Apps For Your Smartphone Nintendo Will Sell a Cardboard Piano and Mech Suit to Fulfill Your Childhood Dreams Add Instant Backseat Entertainment to Your Car with a Tablet Mount Geek Comic Today's Tech Term Clickbait Clickbait is online content that uses sensationalized (provocative) headlines and descriptions to entice people into clicking through to read the “articles”, which tend to lack accuracy and/or fail to be very informative. The main purpose of Clickbait is to generate ad-based revenue for the website in question via the numerous ads displayed when visitors click through to read the “articles”. 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. Amazon boosts monthly Prime fee to $12.99, while $99 annual fee remains unchanged It was already odd for these two price points to be so difference, and now they're diverging even further. [GeekWire] The biggest rocket in the world prepares for its maiden voyage The Falcon Heavy from SpaceX is 70 metres tall and sports 27 engines. Collectively, these generate 22.8m newtons of thrust—about as much as eighteen 747 jetliners. [The Economist] Office 2016 for Mac is Now Aligned with Windows, Android, and iOS Mac users can now use Office's realtime collaboration, and Mac Outlook users can use Google Calendar and Contacts. [Thurrott.com] How to Watch or Stream the 2018 Super Bowl (Without Cable) We’re at T-minus three weeks to Super Bowl, the biggest event in American sports (sorry-not-sorry, “World” Series). What’s that? You don’t have a cable or satellite subscription? Don’t worry, you still have ways to watch. Read This Article → How to Hide Your Activity Status on Instagram Instagram recently added a new option that allows other users to see when you were last active on the service in their direct messages. If you’re not into letting everyone on the planet know what you’re up to every minute of the day, you can disable it pretty easily. Read This Article → How to Share Your Work Under a Creative Commons License Creative Commons licenses make it easy for people to share their creative works so that other people can use them for their own projects. Here’s how to release your work under a CC license. Read This Article → What Is WPA3, and When Will I Get It On My Wi-Fi? The Wi-Fi Alliance just announced WPA3, a Wi-Fi security standard that will replace WPA2. It was one of the most covertly interesting things announced at CES 2018. In a few years, when the laundry folding robots and smart fridges are forgotten, WPA3 will be everywhere making it harder for people to hack your Wi-Fi. Read This Article → Ditch Your PC's Calculator App and Use a Real One Instead Handheld calculators don’t get as much love as they once did. That’s a damn shame, because they can be way more convenient than the calculator app on your computer. Read This Article → How to Enable Fast User Switching in macOS If you share a Mac with family or roommates, you’re going to want to set up multiple macOS user accounts. Each account has its own documents, browser history, and saved passwords. Read This Article → Low Profile Switches Are Coming to Shrink Your Mechanical Keyboards Mechanical keyboards are neat! But no one would say they’re sleek or compact. Even the smallest mainstream models, the “60%” boards, are about the size and weight of a paperback book. But that might be changing very soon. Read This Article → How to See Your Most Used Apps on Android Have you ever wondered which apps consume most of your time? Sure, you can assume what you use the most, but seeing exactly what you use (and how often) can be pretty telling. The best part is that finding this info is as simple as installing an app from the Play Store. Read This Article → Should You Repair Your Own Phone or Laptop? While it can be tempting to take a crack at repairing your own laptop, phone, or tablet, there are times to do it…and times to leave it to the pros. Read This Article → Advertisement How-To Geek Recommends Running Malwarebytes Alongside Your Antivirus for Maximum Protection Running antivirus is still important, but these days the really active threats are from spyware, adware, crapware, and the worst of all: ransomware. That's where Malwarebytes comes in. Malwarebytes not only protects your computer from malware, but does a better job of cleaning up an infected computer than anything else on the market. And it doesn't just work on PCs — they have a Mac version too. Click here to download