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Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy
- The Many Faces of Anonymous
- By: Gabriella Coleman
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
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Half a dozen years ago, anthropologist Gabriella Coleman set out to study the rise of this global phenomenon just as some of its members were turning to political protest and dangerous disruption. She ended up becoming so closely connected to Anonymous that the tricky story of her inside-outside status as Anon confidante, interpreter, and erstwhile mouthpiece forms one of the themes of this witty and entirely engrossing book.
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A thorough insight into Anonymous
- By Matt on 02-05-17
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Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy
- The Many Faces of Anonymous
- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 31-01-17
- Language: English
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Data Feminism
- By: Catherine D'Ignazio, Lauren F. Klein
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
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Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever "speak for themselves."
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Excellent
- By nathaniel tkacz on 02-10-23
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Data Feminism
- Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
- Length: 7 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 23-09-20
- Language: English
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Social Engineering
- The Art of Human Hacking
- By: Paul Wilson - foreword, Christopher Hadnagy
- Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
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Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking does its part to prepare you against nefarious hackers. Now you can do your part by putting to good use the critical information this audiobook provides.
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An important intro to manipulation tactics
- By Julia Kylmälä on 29-01-23
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Social Engineering
- The Art of Human Hacking
- Narrated by: A. T. Chandler
- Length: 14 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 10-07-20
- Language: English
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Life 3.0
- By: Max Tegmark
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
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Penguin Audio presents Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark, read by Rob Shapiro. We stand at the beginning of a new era. What was once science fiction is fast becoming reality, as AI transforms war, crime, justice, jobs and society - and even our very sense of what it means to be human. More than any other technology, AI has the potential to revolutionise our collective future - and there's nobody better situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor and cofounder of the Future of Life Institute, whose work has helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.
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Entertaining and thought provoking.
- By Heisenberg on 09-04-18
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Life 3.0
- Narrated by: Rob Shapiro
- Length: 13 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 05-04-18
- Language: English
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Computing: A Concise History
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of "smart" handheld devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital technology, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broader and more useful perspective. He identifies four major threads that run throughout all of computing's technological development.
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Delivers what it promises
- By Amazon Customer on 20-07-18
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Computing: A Concise History
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 30-10-15
- Language: English
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Architects of Intelligence
- The Truth About AI from the People Building It
- By: Martin Ford
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
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How will AI evolve and what major innovations are on the horizon? What will its impact be on the job market, economy, and society? What is the path toward human-level machine intelligence? What should we be concerned about as artificial intelligence advances? Architects of Intelligence contains a series of in-depth, one-to-one interviews where New York Times best-selling author Martin Ford uncovers the truth behind these questions from some of the brightest minds in the artificial intelligence community.
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Provocative insights into the minds that have shaped modern AI
- By Black2Sugars on 18-06-24
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Architects of Intelligence
- The Truth About AI from the People Building It
- Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
- Length: 20 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 19-11-19
- Language: English
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Stealth
- The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
- By: Peter Westwick
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing. Here was the first extensive combat application of Stealth technology. And it was devastating.
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Excellent
- By Mike & Emma allison on 20-01-24
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Stealth
- The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
- Narrated by: David de Vries
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 04-05-21
- Language: English
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Flourish
- Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency
- By: Sarah Ichioka, Michael Pawlyn
- Narrated by: Nicola Burgess
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
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What will it take to restore balance to our world, repair past injustices, and support future generations' survival? Looking deeply into the web of life that created and supports us, and drawing inspiration from diverse cultural traditions and perspectives, spirited thinkers Michael Pawlyn and Sarah Ichioka propose a bold set of regenerative principles with potential to transform how we design, make, and manage our buildings; infrastructure; and communities.
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Inspirational
- By Britt Rees on 02-06-23
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Flourish
- Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency
- Narrated by: Nicola Burgess
- Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 30-09-22
- Language: English
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As If Human
- Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
- By: Nigel Shadbolt, Roger Hampson
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Plumb
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being.
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As If Human
- Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Plumb
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 14-05-24
- Language: English
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Future
- What Yesterday’s Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
- By: Steven Novella
- Narrated by: Steven Novella
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
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Our predictions of the future are a wild fantasy, inextricably linked to our present hopes and fears, biases and ignorance. Whether they be the outlandish leaps predicted in the 1920s, like multi-purpose utility belts with climate control capabilities and planes the size of luxury cruise ships, or the forecasts of the '60s, which didn't anticipate the sexual revolution or women's liberation, the path to the present is littered with failed predictions and incorrect estimations. The best we can do is try to absorb from futurism's checkered past, perhaps learning to do a little better.
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the future
- By stephen a vieites on 27-11-23
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The Skeptics' Guide to the Future
- What Yesterday’s Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow
- Narrated by: Steven Novella
- Length: 13 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 27-09-22
- Language: English
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The Big Nine
- How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
- By: Amy Webb
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
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In this book, Amy Webb reveals the pervasive, invisible ways in which the foundations of AI - the people working on the system, their motivations, the technology itself - is broken. Within our lifetimes, AI will, by design, begin to behave unpredictably, thinking and acting in ways which defy human logic. The big nine corporations may be inadvertently building and enabling vast arrays of intelligent systems that don't share our motivations, desires, or hopes for the future of humanity.
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Good information but too much time on scenarios
- By Ammm on 14-08-21
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The Big Nine
- How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
- Narrated by: Amanda Dolan
- Length: 9 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 05-03-19
- Language: English
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- By: Cal Newport
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 7 hrs
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In this timely and enlightening audiobook, Cal Newport introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives. Digital minimalists are all around us. They're the calm, happy people who can hold long conversations without furtive glances at their phones. They can have fun with friends and family and eat out at restaurants without the obsessive urge to document the experience...Now, Newport gives us a name for this quiet movement and makes a case for its urgency in our tech-saturated world.
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Thought Provoking; Shame About The Narrator
- By Philippa Turner on 20-04-19
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Digital Minimalism
- Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
- Narrated by: Will Damron
- Length: 7 hrs
- Release date: 05-02-19
- Language: English
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The Common Rule
- Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
- By: Justin Whitmel Earley
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
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The answer to our contemporary chaos is to practice a rule of life that aligns our habits to our beliefs. The Common Rule offers four daily and four weekly habits, designed to help us create new routines and transform frazzled days into lives of love for God and neighbor.
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Honest , practical biblical application
- By MISS REBEKAH SHIELDS on 15-09-20
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The Common Rule
- Habits of Purpose for an Age of Distraction
- Narrated by: William Sarris
- Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 19-02-19
- Language: English
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To Engineer Is Human
- The Role of Failure in Successful Design
- By: Henry Petroski
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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How did a simple design error cause one of the great disasters of the 1980s - the collapse of the walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel? What made the graceful and innovative Tacoma Narrows Bridge twist apart in a mild wind in 1940? How did an oversized waterlily inspire the magnificent Crystal Palace, the crowning achievement of Victorian architecture and engineering? These are some of the failures and successes that Henry Petroski, author of the acclaimed The Pencil, examines in this engaging, wonderfully literate book.
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Really boring!
- By Miss P. on 18-11-19
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To Engineer Is Human
- The Role of Failure in Successful Design
- Narrated by: Matthew Boston
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 27-03-18
- Language: English
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The Car
- The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World
- By: Bryan Appleyard
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
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More than any other technology, cars have transformed our culture. Cars have created vast wealth as well as novel dreams of freedom and mobility. They have transformed our sense of distance and made the world infinitely more available to our eyes and our imaginations. They have inspired cinema, music and literature; they have, by their need for roads, bridges, filling stations, huge factories and global supply chains, re-engineered the world.
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Fascinating
- By John on 01-09-22
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The Car
- The Rise and Fall of the Machine That Made the Modern World
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 17-03-22
- Language: English
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The Authority Gap
- Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously than Men, and What We Can Do About It
- By: Mary Ann Sieghart
- Narrated by: Mary Ann Sieghart
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
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The Authority Gap provides a startling perspective on the unseen bias at work in our everyday lives, to reveal the scale of the gap that still persists between men and women. Marshalling a wealth of data with precision and insight, and including interviews with pioneering women such as Baroness Hale, Mary Beard and Bernadine Evaristo, this is a fresh feminist take on how to address and counteract systemic sexism in ways that benefit us all.
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Incredible
- By richard on 23-08-21
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The Authority Gap
- Why Women Are Still Taken Less Seriously than Men, and What We Can Do About It
- Narrated by: Mary Ann Sieghart
- Length: 10 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 01-07-21
- Language: English
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Conquering the Electron
- The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
- By: Derek Cheung, Eric Brach
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
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Want to know how AT&T's Bell Labs developed semiconductor technology - and how its leading scientists almost came to blows in the process? Want to understand how radio and television work - and why RCA drove their inventors to financial ruin and early graves? Conquering the Electron offers these stories and more, presenting each revolutionary technological advance right alongside blow-by-blow personal battles that all too often took place.
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Story of everything electronic told brilliantly
- By Chris on 31-03-24
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Conquering the Electron
- The Geniuses, Visionaries, Egomaniacs, and Scoundrels Who Built Our Electronic Age
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 14 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 01-03-20
- Language: English
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Smart Phone Dumb Phone
- Free Yourself from Digital Addiction
- By: Allen Carr
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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Smart Phone Dumb Phone rewires our relationship to technology. By unravelling the brainwashing process behind our addictive behaviour, we are freed from dependence and can reassert control over our time and productivity. Including 20 practical steps to help you along your way, this wonderful guide will release you from the clutches of your smartphone and allow you to live in the moment. It truly is the easyway.
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Feeling pretty good after reading this book
- By Anonymous on 12-08-21
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Smart Phone Dumb Phone
- Free Yourself from Digital Addiction
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 05-09-19
- Language: English
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Kelly
- More Than My Share of It All
- By: Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, Maggie Smith, Brig. Gen. Leo P. Geary USAF - ret. - foreword
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
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Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson led the design of such crucial aircraft as the P-38 and Constellation, but he will be more remembered for the U-2 and SR-71 spy planes. His extraordinary leadership of the Lockheed "Skunk Works" cemented his reputation as a legendary figure in American aerospace management.
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For the engineering out there
- By MR J R Stagg on 13-01-20
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Kelly
- More Than My Share of It All
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 26-02-19
- Language: English
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Mars Rover Curiosity
- An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
- By: Rob Manning, William L. Simon
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
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In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars rover Curiosity is poised toanswer this all-important question.
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Building a rover under the bureaucracy of NASA
- By Wakeman on 04-05-18
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Mars Rover Curiosity
- An Inside Account from Curiosity's Chief Engineer
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 21-10-14
- Language: English
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