Adapted from “Hatching Twitter”: All is fair in love and Twitter  —  All Is Fair in Love and Twitter  —  Right in the center of South Park, a large, grassy oval near San Francisco's financial district, there is a rinky-dink playground with slides, ladders and firefighter poles …

Windows Phone 8.1: 7-10 inch screens, no hardware back button, 77% API unity with Windows RT  —  Windows Phone 8.1 Rumors Emerge  —  Yes, we'll get a third Windows Phone 8 update first.  Still....  While Windows Phone 8 GDR3 is right around the corner—and, yes, I'll be writing …

Twitter Gets Its Strongest TV Tie-Up So Far, With an Ambitious Comcast Deal  —  Twitter has been trying to buddy up with the TV industry for the past few years.  Now it has its biggest payoff yet: A far-reaching deal with Comcast that aims to turn the social network into a TV-watching service.

New details on Google's anti-aging startup  —  Why Google decided to fund a bold new biotech platform.  —  FORTUNE — Google (GOOG) last month made waves in the biotech world by announcing the formation of Calico, a “new company that will focus on health and well-being, in particular the challenge of aging and associated diseases.”

Facebook prepares major updates to iPhone apps as top engineer returns to Apple  —  Screenshots of upcoming Facebook Graph Search for iPhone update  —  Facebook is preparing a pair of major updates for its most popular iPhone applications, according to a source familiar with the apps.

iPad Mini and iPad 4 top TouchMarks' touchscreen test ranking for most responsive tablets  —  TouchMarks II: Touchscreen Latencies in Flagship Tablets  —  In our last TouchMarks report, we looked at the touchscreen latencies of the flagship smartphones from different manufacturers.

Here's What a Pinterest Ad Looks Like  —  Pinterest today started its preannounced test of “promoted pins,” a.k.a. the first-ever revenue-generating product for the company valued at $2.5 billion.  —  Well, not so fast on the revenue front.  Pinterest CEO Ben Silbermann said in September …

Google brings Mobile Backend Starter, its one-click deployable cloud backend for Android, to iOS  —  Google today launched Mobile Backend Starter for iOS, simplifying server-side development for app developers on Apple's mobile platform.  Mobile Backend Starter is a Google App Engine application …

Samsung announces the Galaxy Round, a smartphone with a curved OLED display  —  Samsung has taken the wrapper off its rumored smartphone with a curved OLED display.  The Galaxy Round, which will launch on SK Telecom in South Korea, has a 5.7-inch 1080p screen the same size as seen …

How the Bible and YouTube are fueling the next frontier of password cracking  —  Early last year, password security researcher Kevin Young was hitting a brick wall.  Over the previous few weeks, he made steady progress decoding cryptographically protected password data leaked from the then-recent hack of intelligence firm Stratfor.

Disney invents touchscreen that lets you feel textures  —  The company that brought you the first animated feature film and the multiplane camera may be at work on its most game-changing invention yet: Flat touchscreens that let you feel the shape and texture of pictured objects, almost like they were actually there.

UK Police Orders Registrars to Suspend Domains of Major Torrent Sites  —  Earlier this year UK police began working with rightsholders on a campaign to shut down file-sharing sites.  Many site operators received warnings that their activities were breaching copyright law as well as the UK's Serious Crime Act.

iPhone 5s and 5c rolling out to more than 25 new countries on Oct. 25, a dozen more Nov. 1  —  Following the launch of the iPhone 5s and iPhone 5c in the United States on September 20th, Apple has announced that it will begin phase 2 and phase 3 of the new devices rollout in the coming weeks.

Flickr iOS 7 app now automatically uploads photos to your 1TB of free storage  —  Yahoo is updating its iOS 7 Flickr application today to let iPhone users automatically upload photos to the service.  The latest version will save photos from an iPhone camera roll straight to Flickr in full resolution.

The battle to destroy Wikipedia's biggest sockpuppet army  —  Wikipedia editor and self-professed “bird geek” DocTree spends most of his time on the world's largest encyclopedia editing the pages for long-dead ornithologists.  So it was somewhat unusual when, in August 2012 …

Mozilla's Firefox OS Gets First Update As It Heads For 2nd Phase Of Market Launches  —  Mozilla's HTML5-based open mobile platform Firefox OS, which bagged support from a raft of carriers at the start of this year as a low cost alternative to Android-based smartphones, is gearing up to launch in more markets.

Twitter's female “problem”: This is why mobs don't appoint public company boards  —  I can't believe this debate about whether Twitter is an awful company simply because everyone on its board has a Y-chromosome is still going on.  —  Memo to the press: It's no longer August.