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A máquina que pensa narra a fascinante trajetória de uma fabricante de equipamentos para videogames que dominou o mercado de hardware para inteligência artificial e reinventou a computação. Em junho de 2024, 31 anos após sua fundação, a Nvidia superou gigantes como a Microsoft e a Apple e se tornou a empresa mais valiosa do planeta.

En octubre de 1927, veintinueve de los científicos más brillantes del mundo se reunieron en el Quinto Congreso Solvay. Diecisiete de ellos acabarían recibiendo el premio Nobel. Aquel encuentro, inmortalizado en una célebre fotografía, marcó el comienzo de una revolución intelectual sin precedentes. Allí, figuras como Marie Curie, Niels Bohr, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger o Albert Einstein debatieron los fundamentos de la recién nacida teoría cuántica, una forma radicalmente nueva de entender la naturaleza.

Galileo Galilei è il simbolo della scienza moderna, ma quanto sappiamo davvero della sua vita? Matematico, inventore, imprenditore e persino autore di oroscopi: Galileo è stato molte cose, spesso tutte insieme. Siamo del resto in un'epoca in bilico: da una parte le superstizioni medievali; dall'altra la nascita faticosa del metodo scientifico. Con la sua voce inconfondibile, ironica, colta, teatrale, Roberto Mercadini ci regala un viaggio affascinante nella vita e nel tempo di Galileo.

Rosalind Franklin The Unsung Hero of DNA Discovery is an illuminating and deeply human portrait of one of the twentieth century’s most brilliant yet underappreciated scientists. Far beyond the familiar narrative of a single photograph, this audiobook explores the full sweep of Franklin’s remarkable career, revealing a woman whose intellectual discipline, technical mastery, and unwavering pursuit of truth reshaped modern science.

Inside CDD Vault takes listeners into a different kind of Silicon Valley story — one balancing long-term growth with a mission catalyzing scientific progress for the greater good. Go deep into the hearts of the people helping scientists discover new medicines. Told through the personal journeys of team members — from executives to engineers to scientists — this book reveals the human stories behind the software, the values that shape the company's unusual path.

V roce 1939 zorganizoval Sir Nicholas Winton záchrannou akci, během které se mu podařilo zachránit 669 českých dětí z nacisty okupovaného Československa. Jedním ze zachráněných dětí byl také Benjamin Bedřich Abeles (1925 – 2020). Americký fyzik, jehož výzkum germanium-křemíkových slitin v 60. letech 20. století ve Spojených státech vedl k vývoji technologie, používané jako zdroj elektřiny pro kosmické sondy programu Voyager. Vyrůstal v Rakousku a v Československu.

This book restores the name of Felix Le Dantec—a scientist, philosopher, and heretic of his age—to the living current of thought. At the dawn of the twentieth century, he dared to proclaim that life is not a riddle imposed by spirit upon matter, but that matter itself is spirit—learning, feeling, and recognizing itself through the processes of biology. He saw the organism not as a mechanism steered by circumstance, but as a meaning-making machine: life as an act of self-comprehension, matter awakening to its own awareness.

Botanist, explorer, President of the Royal Society and one of Australia’s founding fathers. Sir Joseph Banks was among the most influential figures of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As a young man he accompanied Captain Cook on his voyage of discovery to Australia, in later years he...

Steve Jobs didn’t invent the future. He made it feel inevitable. From a California garage to global godhood, this is the story of the man who turned computers into companions, products into rituals, and simplicity into a cult. But beneath the keynote charisma and polished glass lies something deeper: obsession, control, intuition, rage, and raw design philosophy that reshaped the modern world. Jobs: The Man Behind the Glass goes beyond the black turtleneck myth to uncover the ghost still flickering inside every screen. Because what he built wasn’t just a company.

Inside the Nobel Prize invites readers into one of the most extraordinary traditions in modern history—an award born from invention, controversy, and an unexpected act of legacy. More than a century after the first medals were presented, the Nobel Prize remains the world’s most famous recognition of human achievement, celebrating brilliance in science, literature, peace, and the pursuit of knowledge that makes life better for everyone.

Brought to you by Penguin. Pioneering forensic scientist, anatomist and anthropologist, Professor Dame Sue Black takes the reader into our criminal courts’ witness box from the perspective of an expert witness, the forensic scientist, explaining exactly what that job is, what it demands, how...

The wild isn’t always deep in the mountains. Sometimes—it’s standing right outside your door. In The Coyote at the Door, real people share their terrifying, unforgettable encounters with one of North America’s most adaptable predators. Set in quiet suburbs, rural backyards, neighborhood parks, and wooded walking trails, these are true stories of sudden wildlife attacks that shattered the illusion of safety and brought the wilderness crashing into everyday life.

These short, vivid biographies offer quick insights, big ideas, and timeless inspiration. Enter the minds that changed the way we see the universe. From Oppenheimer to Steve Jobs, Darwin to Edison – their discoveries, struggles, and legacies, brought to life in five powerful minutes each.

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In questo breve e graffiante saggio, Stefan Klein esplora la storia del pensiero creativo attraverso le rivoluzioni che hanno caratterizzato il percorso della specie umana, dalle innovazioni dell'età della pietra alla scoperta della scrittura, fino ai computer e all'intelligenza artificiale. Veniamo così a conoscenza del cervello collettivo, del potere dei simboli, degli spazi di possibilità che si intravvedono a seguito di una crisi e, non da ultimo, delle forme di intelligenza future.

Steven Paul Jobs was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. and NeXT. The following recording is from a February 18th 1981 television interview. At the time, Steve Jobs was twenty-six years old, and Apple had gone public only two months earlier—on December 12, 1980, through its IPO on the NASDAQ stock exchange. In the interview, Jobs discusses the future of personal computers and the impact it will have on the technology world, using analogies of the electric motor to illustrate the evolution of personal computing.

He didn’t mean to change the universe. He just wanted to fix the math. In 1900, Max Planck made a desperate move. Faced with a broken theory about glowing ovens, he made a strange assumption: that energy might come in chunks. Not waves. Not flows. Packets. He thought it was a trick. It turned out to be the truth. PLANCK tells the story of the man who accidentally launched quantum physics. A quiet German physicist with a love of order, Planck found a constant, a single number. that would redefine energy, time, and the limits of the universe itself.

In a world increasingly filled with questions of where our food comes from and dissatisfactions about our modern lives, Country Grit is a story that will resonate with countless people itching to get back to the land. Told with humor and hard-earned wisdom, it is also an account of what small-scale farmers across the country experience every day.

The brilliant theoretical physicist, J. Robert Oppenheimer is now known primarily for his work on the development of the atomic bomb from 1942-45 at Los Alamos in New Mexico. Though fascinated by the processes that created the bomb, he was horrified by its impact and the devastation wrought on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Chris McNab looks at the body of prior work that led to Oppenheimer's recruitment to the Manhattan Project as well as the development of the bomb itself.

As PhD students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin devised a powerful search engine. Google, the company they founded in 1998 became a brand, the world's pre-eminent search engine, a centre of artificial intelligence and a source of data collection. This fascinating biography looks at the background behind the formation of the company, as well as the technology and the business model that led it to become so successful.