Snapchat is planning on acquiring a little-known search company called Vurb for $110 million: 75 percent in stock and 25 percent cash. Now, suddenly, people all over the tech world who have never heard of Vurb are trying to figure out why. What is Vurb? Well, Vurb is a noun that describes a five-year old company that originally had the bold vision of beating Google at their own game in the mobile sphere.

TL;DR Honor has revealed a June 16 launch date for the new Honor 50 series. A teaser video gives us a fleeting glimpse of the design. The company will presumably show off a new Honor Magic line as well. Huawei sold off its Honor brand last year as the heat from US sanctions became too much to bear, but it looks like the newly independent brand is back on its feet.

TL;DR Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann announced Byte, the official successor to Vine. Byte lets you create various “Bytes” with various graphical and musical elements. An Android version will arrive later this year. After some back-and-forth over whether a Vine successor would materialize, Vine co-founder Dom Hofmann finally announced a proper successor on Twitter. Called Byte, the app is available as a private beta starting today for iPhone users and later this year for Android users.

Eric Zeman / Android Authority ⚡ Welcome to The Weekly Authority, the Android Authority newsletter that breaks down the top Android and tech news from the week. The 188th edition here, with Samsung’s self-repair scheme, Nothing’s April Fools’ prank, and more. 🎮 I started the week with joystick drift on my PS5’s DualSense, which has now gone to PlayStation hospital for a repair. I’ve got a spare, but hope it’s back home soon!

In a momentous event, Nokia, the former titan of the mobile industry, is making a comeback of sorts, just months after it completed the sales of its smartphone division to Microsoft. At its Slush 2014 conference in Finland, Nokia just introduced the N1, a brand new tablet running Android. The device features a sleek all-aluminum design, a 7.9-inch laminated display, a 64-bit quad-core Intel Atom Z358, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of storage, an 8MP rear camera, a 5MP front-facing camera, and a 5,300 mAh battery.

Angry Birds Star Wars has received an update today that sees the inclusion of 20 new levels. The new levels are being called Escape From Hoth and not only include the 20 levels, but 2 bonus levels, and a boss fight. These are all augmented with new mynock pigs to make getting along more difficult.The update is available now in the Google Play Store and, of course, it’s free of charge.

With the imminent launch of Android 5.0 Lollipop, we’re seeing quite a few devices running early builds of Google‘s revamped OS. Next up is the Samsung Galaxy S4, and we get a pretty good look at it, thanks to the folks at Sammobile. In the comparison video and attached photos, the Lollipop-toting S4 is compared to the S4 with KitKat. Almost every aspect of the UI has been looked at and compared, so let’s take a look to see what is exactly changing with the update.

Eric Schmidt, Google’s chairman, speaks during a press conference on Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 in New York, where Motorola introduced three new smartphones, the first since it became a a part of Google. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) Eric Schmidt, our favorite Google Executive Chairman, is usually not one for cautious statements. Back in 2011, he predicted Android would be bigger than iOS, a very brash statement at the time. Recently, he has said the entire world will be online in 7 years’ time, which seems inconceivable right now considering conditions in some countries.

The first CyanogenMod 10.1 nightlies for the Galaxy S4 will soon be available to download according to CyanogenMod founder Steve Kondik. The developer posted on Google+ the announcement a few hours ago, revealing that the first handset version to get CM 10.1 will be T-Mobile’s (the SGH-M919 model) and that “the first nightlies will go off tonight”. Other Galaxy S4 models including the international GT-I9505 (Qualcomm Snapdragon 600-based) version will be supported in the future, as soon as the team will get those devices.

By the time that Samsung actually unveiled the Galaxy S6 at MWC in Barcelona we already knew that it wasn’t going to have Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 810 processor inside. Instead Samsung decided to go with its own in-house Exynos 7420 SoC. This decision prompted a lot of speculation about Samsung’s motives, and inevitably had a negative impact on Qualcomm. Was Samsung really switching because of overheating issues, as the rumor suggested? Was it looking to reduce dependence on suppliers?