Spore to evolve into a feature film

The pseudo-Darwinian life simulator Spore has been pegged by publisher Electronic Arts to evolve from video game to full-blown cinematic feature film.

We've known the film was a possibility since last year, but now we hear that Twentieth Century Fox is behind the CGI movie, and Variety reports that Ice Age director Chris Wedge is splicing its genes. Greg Erb and Jason Oremland, who wrote Disney's upcoming The Princess and the Frog and the Ben Stiller pic The Return of King Doug at Paramount, will reportedly write the script. What's unclear is exactly how Will Wright's schizophrenic sandbox game might translate to 90 minutes of family-friendly linear story-telling

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Robovie: Part Atom-powered PC, part robot

Meet Robovie. A robot with a Webcam for a face, an Intel Atom CPU for a heart, and in addition to being able to walk, he can run Windows 7.

True, he'll also cost you about £3,000 (US$4,770). But what you're looking at is a robot with all the remote-controlled movement capabilities of the MechRC, with the bonus that it's also a flippin' PC.
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Palm Pre hacks into iTunes again

Palm was warned very recently by the industry body that regulates the use of USB connections that it was not allowed to trick computers into thinking its products were made by another company when connecting via USB. It has ignored this warning and once again updated its Pre smart phone to allow it to hack into Apple's iTunes.

The Palm Pre goes on sale in the UK on 16 October. One of its biggest selling points for music fans is it works like an iPod when connected to iTunes. The problem is, it does this by telling iTunes it's an Apple iPod. It isn't, and the two companies have been in a spat over the issue for months in the US.

The USB-IF--USB standards group--told Palm in a letter last month that it "may only use the single Vendor ID issued to Palm for Palm's usage. Usage of any other company's Vendor ID is specifically precluded. Palm's expressed intent to use Apple's ID appears to violate the [USB-IF's] policy."
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Archos teases Android phone tablet

Let's not beat around the proverbial--we'll just get straight on with this news: Archos is going to release an Android-based mobile phone, but the French company is teasing us with the merest hints of what its new device is capable of.

Details are vague, as we only glimpsed the device during an Archos presentation. We do know it's an HSDPA phone running Google's mobile OS, powered by a 1GHz ARM Cortex CPU.
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Mac OS X Snow Leopard, iPod touch firmware get update to 10.6.1 and 3.1.1, respectively

Just a couple of weeks after its release, Apple's Mac OS X Snow Leopard operating system has received a major update, from 10.6 to 10.6.1.

Apple recommends all users running Snow Leopard to update their software. Included are fixes to system stability and security -- in particular, problems with DVD playback, the Mail application, printer compatibility and 3G USB modems.

The iPod touch has been updated even more quickly. Despite only being released on Thursday, it's just had its first firmware update. The new version is 3.1.1 and, according to an Apple spokesperson we called up just now, it "just contains bug fixes."
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