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An internal document has been leaked on the internet revealing that U.S. Cellular’s much-anticipated Android 4.4.2 update for Samsung’s former flagship smartphone of 2013, the Galaxy S4, will start rolling out tomorrow, Wednesday, February 19, to all carrier-branded handsets located in the United States. This upgrade ferries the latest build of KitKat in addition to several enhancements for the TouchWiz custom user interface.

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Yesterday, Samsung unveiled the successor to its relatively popular 2013 mid-range Android smartphone, the Galaxy Core. Sporting the name ‘Galaxy Core LTE’, the follow-up handset, like its predecessor, isn’t exactly what you’d call an impressive device, but it’s still pretty snappy and has more enough power to get you through the day on a single charge.

Fingerprint Scanner

The Samsung Galaxy S5 is expected to break cover next week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. While there has been plenty spoken about the smartphone’s hardware specifications and its other variants, there was some doubt over the implementation of the fingerprint scanner in the smartphone.

But those doubts have seemingly been cast aside today after a Samsung insider confirmed the existence of biometric security built into the handset’s home button.

Yes, it's over, Michael.

Koushik Dutta, one of the core members of the CyanogenMod team and developer of apps like ROM Manager and AllCast, is now working on bringing Android mirroring to Chromecast. In a video posted on Google Plus, he gives us a sneak peek into this upcoming feature by playing Flappy Birds on his Nexus 5, which was mirrored to his TV via Chromecast.

Tegra K1

NVIDIA’s Tegra K1 superchip was announced last month during CES, and the company mentioned at the time that the chip wouldn’t make its way to the market for another few months. However, the AnTuTu benchmarks app appears to have already stumbled across a tablet running the new CPU — hinting at a launch sooner than expected.

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