The Dragon X5 offers the gaming control smartphone players never get. Right now, it’s under $35

TLDR:The Dragon X5 Bluetooth Gaming Controller connects easily to most smartphones and tablets, while immediately elevating your gameplay. Mobile gaming is a heck of a lot bigger than Minesweeper and Candy Crush. Last year, games for your phone and other mobile devices brought in revenuestotalling over $77 billion. Mobile games even make up about a quarter of all app downloads for both Android and iOS devices. Unfortunately, for all their escalating power and amazing graphics, the size of the phone itself isn’t really getting much bigger....

2 min · 406 words · Lisa Green

The DuoTurbo Mobile Hotspot can be an absolute lifesaver when you need WiFi anytime, anyplace

TLDR:From home or the road, the DuoTurbo 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot can easily keep up to 10 devices connected to WiFi at once. A mobile hotspot can get you out of a lot of jams. As hard as it may be to believe, there really are still places where WiFi remains hard to come by. While that’s an inconvenience if you’re trying to post a picture to Instagram or check on your favorite boutique’s store hours, it can be a lot more than annoying for business professionals, remote workers, or entrepreneurs who need to be connected at all times....

3 min · 468 words · Shannon Miller

The Dutch are responsible for Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg, no really…

These days, everyone is trying to create a viral hit by dishing out videos about Facebook, but there are very few that have ever been as original as this. Produced by the Dutch National Maritime Museum, it basically draws the conclusion that the Dutch are more or less behind the creation of not only Mark Zuckerberg, but also of Facebook itself. There is no sinister sub plot here to extract billions from the Facebook founder, but is, instead, a tongue in cheek way for the museum to get some great attention for its establishment while wrapping Facebook into a story that a whole younger generation would normally have very little interest in....

2 min · 270 words · Robert Nunez

The Economics of Self-Publishing an Ebook

At first it was just an experiment. Blake Crouch, amystery and suspense novelist, was not lacking for a traditional book publisher. His last few novels were put out by St. Martin’s Press and he has a literary agent dedicated to selling the rights to his work. But early last year, intrigued by success stories with Amazon’s Kindle store, he decided to release a collection of his short stories as an ebook without the aid of a publisher....

12 min · 2361 words · Stacy Mcgee

The EFF drops Bitcoin donations over “complex legal issues”

Distributed digital currency Bitcoin has dominated the newswires over the past couple of months, first with news that US senators were tocrack downon the payment system and then reports that in the first Bitcoin theft of its size,a user lost 25,000 BTC— or nearly $487,749 at today’s market rates — to an unknown thief. Previously accepting donations using Bitcoin, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, non-profit digital rights advocacy organisation,has announcedthat it has removed the Bitcoin donation option from its donations page on its website....

2 min · 412 words · Cheryl Miller
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