If you’re looking to have the tightest security possible when it comes to your Google account, the company’s Advanced Protection service is what you need. Thanks to some new updates Google is rolling out today, the service is going to be even more locked-down than before. There are two primary changes coming to Advanced Protection starting now. They are both pretty simple changes, but they should make enrolled Google accounts even safer when it comes to malware, hackers, and other nefarious attacks.

Victor Collins lay there, facing down in James Bates’ hot tub. Strangled and drowned. What started off as a group of friends watching a football game turned into a brutal murder. And there may have been a female witness in the scene: Amazon Echo’s Alexa. Amazon developing a premium Alexa-powered speaker with a 7-inch screen News Sound like a detective novel with an absurd twist? Well, this is real life: in Bentonville, Arkansas, police think that the suspect’s Amazon Echo may have some crucial evidence from the night of the murder.

If you’re an Android developer or someone who just likes to play with custom ROMs, then you should know the importance of Recovery Mode on your Android phone. Recovery Mode is used to clear the data off your phone, backup an existing ROM, and flash new ROMs. For HTC One X owners, you can now enjoy these features by installing the official ClockworkMod Touch Recovery on your mobile phone. The touch-based CWM Recovery for the HTC One X allows users to navigate its menus with the tips of their fingers.

Intel didn’t have the best 2018, thanks to a resurgent AMD and high-profile vulnerabilities. But the company is kicking off 2019 in a big way with its new Ice Lake laptop chips, revealed at CES. The mobile chip range stands out as Intel’s first “volume” 10nm PC processor, compared to the predecessor’s 14nm manufacturing process. In theory, the smaller design means we should see better battery life and less thermal-induced throttling.

As Brendan reported just yesterday, Samsung has a new color in store for Galaxy S3 fans out there – Martian Pink. Why not Venusian Pink, Sammy? After all, the color will mostly appeal to your female customers? Anyway, Samsung confirmed today the new color on their official site (in Korean, gotta love Google Translate) and said that the pastel pink gadget will be released in South Korea starting on September 26.

TL;DR OnePlus has announced three new TVs coming to India soon. There are two in the Y series and one in the U series. The TVs range in price from Rs. 12,999 to Rs. 49,999. OnePlus jumped into the TV game recently, and now the company is going even harder with the announcement of three new models that are coming soon to India. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear that the company has intentions of releasing televisions in other markets for the time being.

The Periphio Reaper Gaming Computer is hand-built with PC Gamers in mind. With an 6-Core AMD Ryzen 5 5600G processor backed by 16GB of DDR4 RAM and the Radeon Vega 7 (2GB) iGPU, this PC can handle nearly any game you throw at it. AMD's Radeon Vega 7 iGPU is currently one of the best options for integrated gaming setups. With Radeons landmark architecture, you can expect smooth FPS at medium-high settings in all eSports and other popular titles like Minecraft, Apex Legends, Rocket League, Fortnite, DOTA 2, Overwatch, and many more!

Update, February 20, 2019 (1:10AM EST): Razer has issued a second statement to Droid Life, following news that the manufacturer would be laying off roughly two percent of its workforce. “We see great opportunities in the mobile gaming space that we created with the Razer Phone and will continue to invest in this category through a combination of hardware and software initiatives,” the company noted. “We are working on new exciting mobile projects and will share the news when we are ready.

The 7-inch and 8-inch tablet market continues to heat up with plenty of new players joining all the time. Amazon might be one of the leaders in the cheap tablet space, but they need to do something big if they want to keep it that way. If a new rumor is to be believed, that ‘something big’ is a $99 Kindle Fire HD. At $99, the Kindle Fire HD is said to come equipped with a 1280 x 800 resolution display, just like the current 7-inch Kindle Fire HD.

If you like how Google Fiber’s fast and speedy service is being implemented in test cities across the U.S., you might envy the Chinese, which are requiring homes within the vicinity of fiber facilities to have access to the infrastructure. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology recently released a new government policy requiring new homes constructed within a mile of fiber optic channel networks to be equipped and fiber ready.