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Selfies snaps with flash? Photo: Samsung

Samsung’s latest Galaxies are here to help you take better selfies. Both the Galaxy J5 and the Galaxy J7 boast front-facing camera flashes for brightening up low-light shots of your own face, and they’re accompanied by 5-megapixel sensors with wide-angle lenses.

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Samsung wants to cut even more off of Apple’s $548 million award. Photo: Kārlis Dambrāns/Flickr CC

Samsung is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to cut more money off the $930 million Apple won in a patent lawsuit. The company is arguing that the appeals court’s earlier ruling is still unfair, even after successfully convincing the panel to chop off $382 million already.

Get your Quick Settings toggles back in a snap. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Get your Quick Settings toggles back in a snap. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Samsung has released a new app that promises to bring back absent Quick Settings toggles on the Galaxy S6 and S6 edge. The release comes just days after users found that some toggles were mysteriously disappearing and not coming back.

Prepare to bid farewell to TouchWiz. Photo: Samsung/Cult of Android

Prepare to bid farewell to TouchWiz. Photo: Samsung/Cult of Android

If you love your Galaxy S6 but despise TouchWiz, you’ll soon be able to get a stock Android experience without rooting. A number of stock Android themes are coming to Samsung’s official Theme Store, bringing pure Material Design magic as Google intended it.

Samsung says an update is on its way to make your Galaxy more secure. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Samsung says an update is on its way to make your Galaxy more secure. Photo: Killian Bell/Cult of Android

Samsung has promised to deliver an over-the-air security update in the coming days to patch a serious flaw with the SwiftKey keyboard baked into its Android-powered Galaxy devices.

Its announcement comes just one day after a security researcher exposed the vulnerability, which affects around 600 million Samsung handsets — including its new Galaxy S6 and S6 edge.

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