Giles Turnbull

Giles is a freelance tech writer in England. He likes tea, cheese and proper beer, ideally in that order.

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Now You Can Make Multiple Phone Calls in Gmail

Good news for anyone who makes phone calls from inside Gmail – now you can make or receive multiple calls at once. Oh, wait. Excuse me.

Set Aside 571 Hours to Watch the Longest Video on YouTube

Never in the history of cinema have we seen a film that’s almost as long as the history of cinema.

Apple Opens New App Store for Businesses

One of the other Apple announcements of recent days is the opening of a new kind of App Store for corporate customers, allowing them access to a simple system for buying apps in bulk and distributing them among employees and devices.

Your Website: It’s Probably Not Secure Enough

The latest LulzSec hack upon the websites of scandal-struck News International and some of its U.K. newspapers is just another episode in the adventures of what the hackers themselves call “the Lulz Boat,” by which they mean the increasingly bizarre and illegal trip they’re taking through global media and politics.

WATCH: Say Hello to the Flying Sphere of Awesomeness

It looks like the kind of gadget you’d see CGI’ed into a sci-fi show (in fact, similar CGI flying spheres did appear in Doctor Who not all that long ago). But this particular flying object is very real, very cool, and very coming to a battle zone near you in the not-too-distant future.

Does Google+ Do It for You?

Does Google+ do it for you?

Harry Potter-Style Animated Photo Tech Coming to Greeting Cards

Harry Potter-style animated photos are closer than you might think. A U.K. company is working on technology that prints electronic circuits onto incredibly thin layers of plastic—so thin, they can be attached to paper and you’d hardly notice they were there.

Mozilla ‘BrowserID’: One Password to Rule Them All

If there’s one thing that unites everyone on the internet, it’s frustration with passwords.

Man Hacks Neighbors’ Wi-Fi to Frame Them for Child Porn (and More)

A Minnesota man just got sent down for 18 years for breaking into his neighbors’ Wi-Fi network and trying to “frame them for child pornography, sexual harassment, various kinds or professional misconduct and to send threatening e-mails to politicians, including Vice President Joe Biden,” reports Wired.

Five Cool Websites for New Spotify Users

Spotify is finally here in the U.S.!

WATCH: The Creepiest Singing Robot Mouth of All Time

This is not what you think it is. It’s a talking robot, modeled on the human vocal system. And hey, check it out: it can sing! Kinda.