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 …

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.

Apple Will Hold Fall iPad Event on October 22  —  Apple has a couple more new products to announce before the year is out, and it plans to unveil them in a few weeks time.  —  People familiar with Apple's plans tell AllThingsD that the company will hold its next invitation-only event on Tuesday, October 22.

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 …

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 …

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.

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.”

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 …

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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.

Flipkart Raises Another $160M For Its Amazon-Style Indian E-Commerce Marketplace  —  Flipkart, India's largest e-commerce marketplace that's often referred to as the “Amazon of India,” has raised another $160 million.  This is an extension of the $200 million raise announced in July of this year …

On Verge of Sale, BlackBerry Getting its Legal House in Order  —  BlackBerry's preliminary $4.7 billion deal with Fairfax Financial to go private is still very much up in the air, but in the meantime the company is tying up some loose ends.  —  This week, the smartphone company settled …