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Fox Sports has announced that it will be live-streaming Super Bowl XLVIII and all of the NFC playoff games online, though according to Variety, only the Super Bowl will be available for free. iOS users will be able to stream the game with the FOX Sports GO app.

Coverage of Super Bowl XLVIII, which is being played at Met Life Stadium in East Rutherford, NJ, will begin at 6:30 PM EST on Sunday February 2nd. The broadcast will include the half time show featuring Bruno Mars, and will be freely available at

Yahoo Sports version 5.0 now features a GIF creation tool for sports fans. Users can create their own animated GIFs or "Yahoo Loops" by adding their own captions, effects and comments to memorable sports moments. The Loops can then be shared with family, friends or other sports fans via Tumblr, Facebook, Twitter, text and email.

Yahoo Sports version 5.0 also brings a new "clean" iOS 7 redesign, new team / player pages, a new football scores, plus more. Yahoo Sports is free to download for all iOS devices running iOS 7 or later, but the new Loop feature is only available on the iPhone.

The Apple App Store was still a little hungover from the holidays which made for a slow week of new app and game releases. Meanwhile the jailbreaking community was really busy creating new tweaks after the Cydia Substrate was updated for iOS 7 devices. Here's a quick look at some of the new apps, games and jailbreak tweaks released this week (12/29/13 to 01/04/14).

Jet Car Stunts 2: Free for the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad (Requires iOS 6 or later) Rated 4+

The sequel to the popular racing game that challenges you to complete outlandish tracks and impossible jumps with different jet powered cars. Highly recommended! Very challenging and fun. Jet Car Stunts 2 includes 120 levels, 3 difficulties each, (available through IAP), 7 cars with varied handling, 4 game modes and level creation and sharing.

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Looking to bring some of the best features of iOS 7 to older devices, such as the original iPhone or the iPhone 3G? For those iPhone fans who are still rocking these Apple-unsupported devices, Whited00r provides a custom firmware option to modernize their look and feel. Whited00r is fully optimized for the older hardware, and completely customizable by the user.

The latest version of Whited00r supports both the iPhone 3G and iPhone 2G, as well as the iPod touch first and second generation. Besides replicating the design and features of iOS 7, Whited00r is engineered for speed. Should the look of iOS 4.2.1 or iOS 3.1.3 be missed, reversing a Whited00r installation is achieved by simply restoring to original Apple firmware via iTunes.

Whenever popular products or brands are in competition people inevitably try to draw correlations and make assumptions about the consumers of one product versus those of the other. The subject of comparison can range from economic status to obesity to age or gender, and just about anything else you can think of. Sometimes the conclusions are drawn from serious academic study, but most are drawn from simple, biased observation. A recent not-so-scientific test carried out by UK bookmaker Ladbrokes concluded that iPhone users are more intelligent than Google, Samsung, HTC, Nokia and Blackberry owners.

Ladbrokes chose 1,000 participants from a list of smartphone owners that had downloaded their mobile app. The participants' mental acuity was then challenged by seven brainteasers designed to test pattern recognition and problem solving ability. Each question had to be answered (and they were multiple choice) before