Valve announces the Steam Link is no more, having sold out of the device in Europe and "almost" sold out in the US-- and it appears the company has no plans to make more.

Announced back in March 2015, the Steam Link is essentially a small HDMI box allowing users to stream games from the Steam Library (as well as non-Steam games added to the library) on PC to any TV in the home. It offers 1080p resolution streams at 60fps through either ethernet or 802.11ac wifi, and includes x3 USB ports, Bluetooth 4.0 and support for a number of wireless joypads, such as the Steam Controller and Xbox One or 360 controllers.

Netgear announces a pair of 802.11ax AX6000 routers-- the 8-stream Nighthawk RAX80 and the 12-stream RAX120, both using the 2.4 and 5GHz bands and support for OFDMA (orthogonal frequency-division multiple access) on the uplink and downlink.

The RAX80 is based on the Broadcom BCM49408 SoC. It features two 802.11ax radios together with a 1.8GHz quad-core ARMv8 processor and an 800MHz network packet co-processor. The radios are in a 4x4:4 configuration, with one handling 2.4GHz duties (bgn+ax, with 40 MHz channels for 1150 Mbps of theoretical throughput), and the other the 5GHz channel (an+ac+ax, with 160 MHz channel support for 4800 Mbps of theoretical throughput).

With online privacy concerns at an all time high, customers might be interested in the Helm-- a personal home server to handle sensitive online business such as email, calendar and contacts.

The Helm is a triangular device around the size of a router. It carries 128GB of storage (with a tray allowing customers to add up to 5TB) and features a physical security key beneath a small removable cover. The key connects to the Helm via USB-C port, and handles the encryption of emails and other files. The Helm can also create backup keys on smartphones, just in case the physical key gets lost.

The Wifi Alliance announces a shakeup of wireless networking name conventions as it announces Wifi 6-- the next generation of wifi connectivity bringing about further capacity and performance, with lower power consumption.

Wifi 6 is what what we formerly known as the 802.11ax standard. Essentially the alliance realised the current wifi naming convention only leads to user confusion, bringing the need for simpler system. Thus, Wifi 1 is the very first version of the standard, 1999's 802.11b. It was followed by 802.11a, now known as Wifi 2. Wifi 3 is 802.11g, Wifi 4 is 802.11n and Wifi 5 is the version currently in use, 2014's 802.11ac.

The alliance plans to push the branding even in software, with devices showing which version of wifi they are currently connected to. As a result users can choose the superior wifi network, since it is obvious the network with a "5" is better than the one with a "4."