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An urgent examination of how disruptive politics, technology, and art are capsizing old assumptions in a great wave of change breaking over today’s world, creating both opportunity and peril—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic and author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of...

Award-winning author and journalist Benyamin Cohen has a bizarre side hustle as the manager of Einstein's official social media accounts, which have 20 million followers—more than most living celebrities. In The Einstein Effect, Cohen embarks on a global quest to unearth Einstein's ongoing relevance today. Along the way, he meets scientists and celebrities, speaks to dozens with the last name Einstein (including two rabbis), and even tracks down the brain of Einstein, stolen from his body during the autopsy

The Secret Science of Games is an accessible and entertaining guide to the hidden role of science in making games more fun. User experience (UX) research is a vital part of the story of how video games have become a cultural juggernaut, but game developers generally don’t speak publicly about how data shapes game design and game development.

Web3 Marketing: A Handbook for the Next Internet Revolution is the essential book for anyone looking to understand the next era of the internet and start building. Beyond the sensational hype and headlines around crypto and NFTs, a real revolution is taking place: new technologies for owning, moving, and organizing value spell the overdue end of an internet where a few huge companies hoard data and power, and open a new frontier for products, services, and applications in which ownership and control belongs to creators, builders, and users.

¿Cuáles serán las grandes potencias del siglo XXI? ¿Cómo será el mundo del mañana? ¿Qué vivirán nuestros nietos? ¿El ser humano alcanzará la inmortalidad?

The Power and Potential of ChatGPT is a comprehensive and insightful exploration of one of our time's most significant technological developments. It offers a balanced and nuanced perspective on the potential and challenges of AI. It provides practical insights and advice for navigating this complex and rapidly-evolving field.

Ever since the earliest days of the Cold War, American intelligence agencies have launched spies in the sky, implanted spies in the ether, burrowed spies underground, sunk spies in the ocean, and even tried to control spies' minds by chemical means. But these weren't human spies. Instead, the United States expanded its reach around the globe through techno-spies. Nothing Is Beyond Our Reach investigates how America's technophiles inadvertently created a global espionage empire: one based on technology, not land.

Brought to you by Penguin. Facebook had a problem. Along with its sister platforms Instagram and WhatsApp, it was a daily destination for billions of users around the world, extolling its products for connecting people. But as a succession of scandals rocked Facebook from 2016, some began to...

When Churchill's top secret Special Operations Executive needed to destroy the Gestapo HQ in the centre of downtown Copenhagen to prevent a devastating Nazi last stand that might prolong the war for many months, there was only one machine for the job - the Mosquito. This is the story of that legendary aircraft told through that one impossible mission.

According to estimates, the healthcare AI market will grow to over $45 billion by 2026. Now is the time for everyone involved, including medical consumers and entrepreneurs, to understand and embrace the AI in healthcare revolution. AI continues to advance at breakneck speeds. Nowhere else is AI moving faster than in the health care sector, where it’s being used to improve millions of lives at every point in the healthcare system. In this book, you will take a deep dive into the remarkable strides that AI is making.

A new industrial revolution has begun. Like mechanization or electricity before it, artificial intelligence will touch every aspect of our lives—and cause profound disruptions in the balance of global power, especially among the AI superpowers: China, the United States, and Europe. Autonomous weapons expert Paul Scharre takes listeners inside the fierce competition to develop and implement this game-changing technology and dominate the future.

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Acclaimed reporter Taylor Lorenz, founder of User Magazine and host of the Power User podcast, presents an “enlightening history” (Associated Press) of the internet—revealing how online influence and the creators who amass it have reshaped our world, online and off...

Flipping TVs is a business model that is often overlooked, but those who are getting involved and know what to look out for can make impressive additional incomes–with very little effort.

Engineering is everywhere, from the Large Hadron Collider to invisibly small circuits on silicon chips. The 50 Greatest Engineers celebrates the great achievements that have been made through the ages, containing profiles of the best-known and most innovative engineers of all time.

¿Estás cansado de sentirte abrumado por la tecnología y la sobrecarga digital? ¿Te gustaría tener una guía práctica que te ayude a simplificar tu vida digital y encontrar un equilibrio saludable entre la tecnología y el mundo físico? Entonces, Minimalismo Digital: Guía Práctica es el libro que estás buscando.

Are you spending hours a day on social media? Are you frustrated and fed up with the time you waste online? Maybe you would love to learn easy steps you can take to reduce your screen time and use social media the right way.

Nicht die Dauer der Mediennutzung ist das Problem, sondern die Inhalte, die Kinder konsumieren. Schon Grundschüler sind Bildern von Gewalt, Pornographie und Rassismus ausgesetzt. Eine Schulleiterin schlägt Alarm! "Wissen Sie, was Ihr Kind auf seinem Smartphone sieht?" Diese Frage stellt Silke Müller ahnungslosen Eltern auf Infoveranstaltungen ihrer Schule. Die Fotos, Sticker und Videos, die sie dann zeigt, sind so verstörend, dass kaum jemand hinsehen kann.

Robocentric, the transhumanistic American high-tech corporation founded and managed by Allen Young, the transhumanistic Asian-American man, aims to double America's national GDP by adding its ubiquitous and pervasive AI and robotics technology products to the American national economy.

Vielfach täglich ziehen Bildschirme unseren Blick auf sich. Und so nehmen wir vieles auf, was uns ablenkt, beeinflusst oder gar manipuliert. Auch unsere Kinder sind diesen Einflüssen ausgesetzt. Aber im Gegensatz zu uns stehen sie der starken Wirkung von dem, was über Bildschirme an uns herangetragen wird unwissend und schutzlos gegenüber. Wenn wir Veränderungen in der Gesellschaft erkennen und verstehen lernen wollen, und wenn wir Kindern helfen wollen, konstruktiv mit Bildschirmen leben zu lernen, so müssen wir über diese technischen Errungenschaften und ihre Wirkung Bescheid wissen.

From facial recognition—capable of checking us onto flights or identifying undocumented residents—to automated decision systems that inform everything from who gets loans to who receives bail, each of us moves through a world determined by data-empowered algorithms. But these technologies didn't just appear: they are part of a history that goes back centuries, from the census enshrined in the US Constitution to the birth of eugenics in Victorian Britain to the development of Google search.