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It appears Rovio is running out of holidays in which to update their popular Angry Birds franchise with as they are now planning to send their angry aviators out into space. That’s right, the final frontier, to boldly go where no bird has gone before. Rovio is teaming up with NASA and National Geographic to release Angry Birds Space and we can only assume it will feature some anti-gravity maneuvers, green alien pigs, and warp drive slingshots.

TouchType and their Android keyboard replacement SwiftKey just surpassed 5 million installs. TouchType gives better predictions and corrections to make typing faster and more intuitive. Today they are happy to announce an update to its core language data to make typing informal messages easier. Along with the update, TouchType will be celebrating their 5 million install milestone by offering SwiftKey for 25 percent off (this weekend only).

Popular productivity app Evernote got an update yesterday to fix some bugs as well as improve on features. Evernote is by far one of the best notepad utilities and the fact that it’s free is amazing. If you use the Android app then you’re going to want to grab the update as it:

Facebook for Android was updated late last night but we’ve yet to see a new changelog so we have no idea what’s new. The changelog they have up in the market right now is an old one so don’t pay attention to it. Either way, you’re going to want to grab the update as something is new. If you notice any changes, come back and let us know.

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In celebration of Star Wars Episode 1: The Phantom Menace 3D, Lucasfilm released a Darth Maul Me app onto the Android Market. Since Verizon has a standing Star Wars theme going with their DROID series, they figured it was a good opportunity to hold a contest — for a non-DROID phone!? Well, there is a contest, and up for grabs is 1 of 5 LG Spectrums. All you have to do to win, is follow these simple instructions:

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