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ACR Drift is a new free-to-play racing game from developer Crooz Inc.. Players can earn money to buy and customize over 50 world famous cars such as the Bugatti Veyron , Pagani Zonda Cinque, Bentley Continental GT and more. The game also features a wide selection of courses around the world, detailed graphics and reflection mapping technology that displays the cityscape and landscape on each car body.

The controls in ACR Drift are very, very simple. You just swipe left or right to drift or change lanes, and swipe up to use a nitro boost. The only real difficult part is timing your swipes to drift at the correct moment. The most annoying part of the game is that the load times between races can actually be longer than the races themselves. I only gave the game a quick spin so it is unclear if it eventually requires in-app purchases to continue play like other freemium titles.

This week, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, Imagination Technologies unveiled its new PowerVR GX6650, a 192-core GPU (graphics processing unit), which the company considers its "shining star" of PowerVR graphics processors. Since Imagination supplies the graphics processors for Apple's custom A-series chips, this new GPU could very well be included in the next generation iPhone (iPhone 6) and iPad.

The PowerVR GX6650 GPU boasts six unified shading clusters (architecture devoted to the production of appropriate levels of light and color within an image) and 192 cores, which allow it to process 12 pixels per clock cycle. According to Imagination,

Jailbreakers were met with a conundrum after Apple released a major update to fix a security flaw in iOS 7. The update patched a vulnerability that according to Apple, could allow an "attacker with a privileged network position" to "capture or modify data in sessions protected by SSL/TLS." Luckily the evad3rs released evasi0n7 1.0.6 so users with jailbroken devices could upgrade to iOS 7.0.6 and patch the bug. However as most jailbreakers already know, performing the entire jailbreak process all over again can be a major hassle. This is why developer Ryan Petrich's new tweak called SSLPatch is a godsend.

The free tweak allows users to protect their jailbroken device from the SSL security flaw without the need to upgrade to iOS 7.0.6. All you have to do is install SSLPatch from the BigBoss repo on Cydia and the job is done.

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum announced today that the messaging app will add voice call support in Q2 of this year. The announcement was made at Mobile World Congress currently being held in Barcelona, Spain.

Koum said the new service will first be available on iOS and Android before landing on some BlackBerry and Nokia devices later in the year. The CEO also added that WhatsApps currently has 465 million monthly active users, and that 15 million of those users joined after Facebook bought the app for $19 billion last week.

Here's this week's recap of all the latest and noteworthy iOS games, apps and jailbreak tweaks released to the Apple App Store and Cydia (02/16/14 to 02/22/14). Apple's Free App of the Week is the side-scrolling endless runner Mini Ninjas. The game will be free on the App Store until 02/27/14

Astro Golf: Taking Mini Golf to New Heights: $1.99 for the iPod touch, iPhone and iPad (Requires iOS 5.1 or later) Rated 4+

Astro Golf follows Orbit, the Robot and with his friend, Tess, as they attempt to golf their way out of an abandoned cargo ship. The game features fifty holes of futuristic mini golf with Sci-Fi themed traps, 3D art and a continuing storyline.