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Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed is now available for iOS devices. The game allows users to race as Sonic and 10 legendary racers from the Sonic the Hedgehog universe or other SEGA games. The official app description doesn't list which characters are available in the mobile version, but players could originally play as characters such as Gilius Thunderhead from Golden Axe and NASCAR driver Danica Patrick on the console version. The "transformed" part comes into play when racers turn their cars into other vehicles like a boat. The game was originally launched for consoles like the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 as a sequel Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing.

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed has been modified for mobile devices and it allows users to choose between touch or tilt controls or use a third-party iOS controller. The mobile version features a brand new World Tour, 4-player online mode, Facebook integration plus daily and weekly challenges.

It didn't take long for the first Touch ID tweak to land in the Cydia app store. Virtual Home allows you to use your Home button to access the app switcher or return to the Home screen without actually pressing down on the physical button. The tweak basically transforms your Touch ID sensor into a virtual Home button, hence the name.

Once installed, Virtual Home users can tap their Home button once to return to their Home screen, or tap and hold their Home button to open the app switcher in iOS 7. These gestures replace the need to press the Home button which gives it a much needed break from all your finger poking.

Google announced today it would be closing Bump and Flock on January 31, 2014. The search engine giant acquired both apps in 2012 and has decided to pull them from the App Store and Google Play. Bump CEO and co-founder David Lieb made the announcement via the official Bump blog on Wednesday.

Current Bump and Flock users have until January 31st to export their data from both apps.

"At any point in the next 30 days, simply open either app and and follow the instructions for exporting your data. You’ll then receive an email with a link containing all of your data (photos, videos, contacts, etc) from Bump or Flock."

Jailbreaking iOS 7 is about to get more interesting. Saurik has released Cydia Substrate 0.9.5000, adding support for iOS 7 and the ARM64 CPU found in the iPhone 5s and other 64-bit iOS devices. This means that developers can forge ahead with updating tweaks and jailbreak apps for all devices running iOS 7.

Previously there were some compatibility issues which prevented many tweaks from being usable with iOS 7. Saurik notes that for extensions to work on ARM64 they must be recompiled to ARM64 by developers. The news comes just days after the evad3rs surprised everyone by releasing the evasi0n 7 jailbreak.

As promised, albeit a little late, iH8sn0w and winocm have delivered an untethered jailbreak for A5 devices running iOS 6.1.3-6.1.5, but their use of an unused exploit is not sitting well with some in the jailbreaking community.

Evad3rs member pod2g took to Twitter to blast iH8sn0w and winocm for using an exploit originally found by JailbreakMe creator Comex. Pod2g believes using a "highly valuable root exploit" on older firmware was a waste of time, and he claims iH8sn0w and winocm have destroyed any chance for it to be used for future jailbreak releases. A lot of people in the jailbreaking community agree, and are worried Apple will now close the exploit since it was made public.