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A couple of days after Twitch yanked one of its oldest and most popular emotes, PogChamp is back with a twist. For the foreseeable future, Twitch will change the image every 24 hours. Soon after PogChamp vanished from the platform, Sean “Day9" Plott,…

Earlier today, Sony announced plans to expand its 360 Reality Audio platform. The key updates were a two-fold approach for expanding the limited content library, licensing tech to other companies and — most importantly — news that it would ship its o…

Following a nearly year-long investigation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says Tesla vehicles don’t have a design flaw that makes them prone to sudden and unintended acceleration. The federal agency began looking into the…

Hello again. I hope you’re keeping safe and well. Here in Scotland we’ve just entered our second lockdown, and I’ve never been more grateful for the distractions of writing and reading.

During the past year, I’ve published three volumes of flash fiction: ultra-short tales of 1,000 words or so, to entertain but also to take the reader’s mind away from real life’s strange concerns during these times. Today, I’m announcing a bold (and completely free) new venture.

I plan to write and send out a brief tale via email once per week, to anyone who wants to receive it. New tales arrive on Mondays, and the first will go out later this month. There’s no cost, of course. This is just my way of reaching out to readers, and hopefully helping begin each week with at least a few minutes of entertainment.

If you’d like to receive the weekly stories, please sign up here!

There’s no catch, and you can unsubscribe at any time. You can also read more about the Once Upon A Time series of short stories so far, which includes three ebooks and a paperback anthology.

I hope you’ll choose to subscribe to these free brief stories. I can’t wait to send them to you.

Take care, thank you for reading, and best wishes from Edinburgh.

Facebook is also imposing new restrictions on Donald Trump. The social network said that it will bar the president from posting to his page for the next 24 hours. The company cited “two policy violations” as reason for its decision.“We've assessed tw…

As usual, LG is taking advantage of CES to roll out a refreshed version of its thin-and-light Gram laptop series. For 2021 the company says its laptops are Intel Evo platform certified, which applies a baseline of battery life, fast charging and quic…

Twitter has temporarily suspended Donald Trump after the president tweeted his support for a violent mob that descended on the nation’s Capitol as Congress met to certify the results of the November election.The company says it has locked Trump’s acc…

Facebook and YouTube both removed a video posted by Donald Trump, in which he addressed the rioters who descended on Washington D.C as Congress convened to certify the results of the November election. In the one-minute clip, the president told his s…

Twitter has suspended Donald Trump and locked the president out of his account for the next 12 hours, after warning that his tweets posed a “risk of violence.” The company had originally slapped new warning labels on Trump’s tweets, which stated that…

If you ran into Philip Tibitoski in a coffee shop or brushed past him in the street, you’d never know he helped create some of the silliest video games of the past decade. He’s calm and self-possessed, and he thinks before he speaks in a low tenor. H…

More details on the fallout from last month’s SolarWinds hack continue to come out. On Wednesday, the US Department of Justice announced it was also a victim of the attack, which US intelligence agencies said earlier in the week was “likely” carried…

Intel has found another use for its RealSense depth-sensing camera. It married the tech with a neural network to develop a facial recognition system that can enable access to the likes of smart locks and ATMs with only a glance.Similar to Apple's Fac…

Netflix will stop streaming to Nintendo 3DS and Wii U devices later this year. In a support document spotted by Eurogamer, Nintendo says the company will discontinue support for the two consoles on June 30th, 2021 (coincidently, that’s the same day M…

CES is typically a time when several companies unveil new true wireless earbuds, but Earin isn’t waiting until next week. Today, the company revealed the A-3: its third-gen true wireless model that features an open design without an ear tip. Several…

In its biggest refresh since it finished rolling out its new desktop website last year, Facebook showed off a new Pages design on Wednesday. If you’re not familiar with them, they’re the public-facing profiles celebrities and politicians, as well as…