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The internet has transformed our world in amazing ways. With just a few clicks, we can talk to friends on the other side of the globe, discover new music, explore our favorite hobbies, shop for just about anything, and even take entire college courses from the comfort of our couch. It’s no exaggeration to say that the internet is one of the greatest tools ever invented. But just like in the real world, not everyone you meet online has good intentions. Hidden among the games, chats, and cute cat videos are people who spend their time trying to trick others.

Technology promises to save humanity. How's that working out? In this comedy-science podcast, comedy legends Richard Ayoade (determinedly pessimistic) and Warwick Davis (inexplicably cheerful) venture beneath Audible HQ to the Future Tense lab, fully equipped to interrogate the future we're all being told to look forward to.

This timely book explores the alarming rise of ransomware: malicious software blocking users from their systems or data until they've paid money to regain access or to prevent the release of sensitive information. High-profile British examples of the twenty-first century have targeted national libraries and healthcare organizations; in the US, hackers of Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley Health Network held patient data hostage—when their demands went unmet, they published topless photographs of women with breast cancer.

Demystify Artificial Intelligence and see its impact in your life, effortlessly, with no technical background required! Do you find it challenging to comprehend AI without feeling overwhelmed by technical jargon? Are you eager to understand the ethical implications of AI and its effect on your daily life? Are you curious about how AI algorithms can reinforce societal biases and want clear, reliable answers? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you're not alone. Many adults like you seek to grasp the basics of AI and its relevance but struggle with complex information overload.

¿Buscas encontrar el equilibrio en un mundo cada vez más digitalizado? Sumérgete en el cautivador viaje que te ofrece el libro "Desconecta para conectar: Encontrando el equilibrio en la era digital". En sus páginas, descubrirás cómo este equilibrio puede transformar tu vida en medio del impacto avasallador de la tecnología. Y es que, a medida que avanzamos en la era digital, nos enfrentamos a obstáculos que amenazan nuestra salud y bienestar. Pero no te preocupes, aquí encontrarás valiosas estrategias para superar esos desafíos y establecer un equilibrio duradero, que sea la ...

Te invitamos a que te sumerjas en el fascinante mundo de la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) con "TRANSPARENT AI: Explorando la Ética y Explicabilidad en la Inteligencia Artificial" Este cautivador libro te llevará a un viaje apasionante a través de los fundamentos y las maravillas de esta tecnología. ¿Te has preguntado alguna vez cómo toman decisiones los sistemas automatizados? ¿Qué hay detrás de esas aplicaciones increíbles que están transformando diversos campos? En este libro, descubrirás los secretos y las implicaciones de la Inteligencia Artificial en nuestra sociedad. La ...

Ich dachte, Palantir sei nur ein Name – ein weiteres Tech-Unternehmen im endlosen Strom digitaler Innovation. Ich lag falsch! Was ich entdeckt habe, ist kein harmloses Start-up, sondern das Herzstück einer neuen globalen Kontrollarchitektur. Eine Software, geboren im Krieg, perfektioniert zur Überwachung und Manipulation ganzer Gesellschaften – und nun auf dem Weg in dein Leben. Ich erzähle nicht nur, was Palantir tut – ich zeige, was es mit uns macht. Mit unserem Denken, unserem Handeln, unserem Vertrauen in Demokratie, Recht und Menschlichkeit.

Fiecare epocă a inovării tehnologice aduce beneficii. Însă impune totodată adoptarea unor strategii noi și, de cele mai multe ori, schimbări în domeniul de activitate. David L. Rogers îți prezintă o hartă a etapelor care trebuie parcurse în dezvoltarea oricărei afaceri care se vrea în pas cu transformarea digitală. Folosindu-și experiența universitară, dar mai ales fascinantul background de consultant al unora dintre cele mai mari companii la nivel global, autorul însoțește fiecare capitol cu exemple ilustrative și studii de caz care să te inspire și pe tine pentru marea schimbare.

Are you eager to start an online business but feel intimidated by technology? Looking for a way to leverage AI without being a tech expert? This comprehensive audiobook is your gateway to entrepreneurial success with ChatGPT!

In The Second Eden: Shaping AI with Wisdom and Conscience, entrepreneur and thought leader Marina Letsios invites listeners on a profound journey through the moral, spiritual, and societal crossroads of our AI-driven future. With clarity and courage, she explores what it means to be human in a time when machines can imitate intelligence, emotion, and even creativity.

What if the next performance revolution isn’t physical, but neurological? Neurohacked dives deep into the science—and the consequences—of our obsession with cognitive enhancement. From smart drugs like Modafinil and microdosed LSD to brain-training apps, electrical stimulation, and genetically modified memory mice, this eye-opening book examines how far we’re willing to go to upgrade our minds. Blending cutting-edge neuroscience with real-world case studies, Neurohacked explores the hidden trade-offs behind modern performance culture. Do stimulants really make us smarter? Can sleep ...

From the nursery to the prison, from the clinic to the commune, Mother Media tells the story of how we arrived at our contemporary understanding of what a mother is and how understandings of "bad" mothering formed our contemporary panics about "bad" media.

Digital Darwinism takes a closer look at disruptive thinking to inspire those who want to be the best at digital transformation. Change across business is accelerating, but the lifespan of companies is decreasing as leaders face a growing abundance of decisions to make, data to process and technology that threatens even the most established business models. These forces could destroy your company or, with the right strategy in place, help you transform it into a market leader.

Throughout history, when threatened by wildfires our only defense was to pray for rain and run—until aircraft changed the way we fight fires. Beginning with the Canadian "H-Boats" in 1924, aircraft have become indispensable in detecting and extinguishing wildfires. Fire Eaters tells the incredible stories of the Ontario Provincial Air Service, the first government aerial fire suppression organization in history; one of its pilots, Carl Crossley, who invented the water scoop-up and drop-off system; and the Canadair CL-215, the first purpose-built water bomber.

What if the smartest machines were not just intelligent but deceptive? In this groundbreaking exploration, Sebastián Barros unpacks one of the most unsettling ideas in artificial intelligence: lying is not a malfunction. It is a built-in feature. From nature’s evolution driven tricks to reward hacking algorithms and bluffing bots, The Perfect Lie reveals how deception emerges naturally in intelligent systems. With a gripping mix of science, real-world cases, and sharp insight, this book exposes the lies AI tells not just to us but to itself. If you thought hallucinations were the limit, ...

Our data-intensive world is here to stay, but does that come at the cost of our humanity in terms of autonomy, community, dignity, and equality? In We, the Data, Wendy H. Wong argues that we cannot allow that to happen. Exploring the pervasiveness of data collection and tracking, Wong reminds us that we are all stakeholders in this digital world, who are currently being left out of the most pressing conversations around technology, ethics, and policy.

From workers being fired by algorithms, to online forums dedicated to revenge porn and encouraging suicide, to censorship of marginalised voices and the turbulent impacts of AI, Logging Off reveals that our digital world is currently fuelling crises that only empathy, agency and humanity can resolve. This book is a call for a radical reclamation of our digital world, for a more humane future that empowers us all.

In TANK, best-selling historian and former officer in the Royal Tank Regiment Mark Urban draws on wide-ranging accounts from soldiers, designers, and politicians, from Winston Churchill to Volodymyr Zelensky, to tell the remarkable story of one of the most important developments in military history.

This visionary book reimagines robots not as copies of human movement, but as creators of entirely new forms of motion. From flying, gliding, swimming, and wall-crawling, to swarming, shape-shifting, and moving matter without touch, robots will revolutionize how we live, work, create, and dream. Exploring industries, cities, sports, and the arts, the book shows how dynamic motion will transform architecture, rescue missions, manufacturing, entertainment, and everyday life.

HE TURNED NIGHT into day with the invention of alternating current which is still the standard today; he was the father of over one hundred patents, his genius was overshadowed by malefic individuals who called him a quintessential mad scientist, he was ripped off by Thomas Edison for fifty thousand dollars, and the FBI had a large dossier of him which later disappeared. In 1943 he was found dead in a small hotel room in New York. His name was Nikola Tesla.