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The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence

AMIR HUSAIN · Scribner
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover

In the tradition of Michio Kaku's The Future of the Mind, acclaimed technologist and inventor Amir Husain answers the universal question of how we can live amidst the coming age of sentient machines and artificial intelligence - and not only survive, but thrive.The future is now. Artificial...
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Protecting Your Internet Identity: Are You Naked Online?

Ted Claypoole · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 280
Format: Print book

People research everything online - shopping, school, jobs, travel - and other people. Your online persona is your new front door. It is likely the first thing that new friends and colleagues learn about you. In the years since this book was first published, the Internet profile and reputation...
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Facebook for Beginners in easy steps

David Crookes · In Easy Steps Limited
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback

New to Facebook? Then this essential guide will prove to be the perfect introduction to the world's largest social media site. Covering Facebook's key features, including: Setting up an account and posting on Facebook, whilst maintaining your privacy and staying safe. Having fun perfecting...
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Crash Override: How Gamergate

Zoe? Quinn · PublicAffairs
Pages: 256
Format: Hardcover

You've heard the stories about the dark side of the internet--hackers, #gamergate, anonymous mobs attacking an unlucky victim, and revenge porn--but they remain just that: stories. Surely these things would never happen to you.Zoe Quinn used to feel the same way. She is a video game developer...
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Adobe Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC for Photographers Classroom in a Book

Lesa Snider · Peachpit
Pages: 357
Format: Print book

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Lightroom in conjunction with Adobe Photoshop. Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does-an official training series from Adobe Systems...
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Who Owns the Future?

Jaron Lanier · Simon & Schuster
Format: Hardcover

Jaron Lanier is the father of virtual reality and one of the world’s most brilliant thinkers. Who Owns the Future? is his visionary reckoning with the most urgent economic and social trend of our age: the poisonous concentration of money and power in our digital networks.Lanier has predicted...
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Teach Yourself VISUALLY iPad

Guy Hart-Davis · Wiley
Format: Book

Fully updated coverage on the latest iPad and iPad mini! As the amazing iPad continues to evolve, so does this invaluable visual guide. Bestselling veteran author Guy Hart-Davis gets you up to date on the latest generation of the iPad as well as the mini with his clear step-by-step, image-driven...
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My iPad for Seniors

MICHAEL R MILLER · Que Publishing
Pages: 464
Format: Paperback

My iPad for Seniors, 5th Edition, is a comprehensive guide to using all of Apple's iPad models. It includes everything from basic setup information to finding and installing new apps to using the iPad for communication, entertainment, and productivity. The information presented in this...
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Skype for Business Unleashed

Alex Lewis · Sams Publishing
Pages: 975
Format: Paperback

In Skype for Business Unleashed, three of the world's most respected Microsoft Unified Communications consultants share in-the-trenches guidance for all facets of Skype for Business planning, integration, deployment, and administration. The authors introduce Skype for Business, outline...
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The Art of Invisibility: The World's Most Famous Hacker Teaches You How to Be Safe in the Age of Big Brother and Big Data

Kevin Mitnick · Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 309
Format: Hardcover

Be online without leaving a trace.Your every step online is being tracked and stored, and your identity literally stolen. Big companies and big governments want to know and exploit what you do, and privacy is a luxury few can afford or understand.In this explosive yet practical book, Kevin...
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Introducing Python: Modern Computing in Simple Packages

Bill Lubanovic · O'Reilly Media; 1 edition
Format: Print book

Easy to understand and fun to read, Introducing Python is ideal for beginning programmers as well as those new to the language. Author Bill Lubanovic takes you from the basics to more involved and varied topics, mixing tutorials with cookbook-style code recipes to explain concepts in Python...
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Making Things Smart: Easy Embedded JavaScript Programming for Making Everyday Objects into Intelligent Machines

Gordon H Williams · Maker Media, Inc
Pages: 304
Format: Paperback

Making Things Smart teaches the fundamentals of the powerful ARM microcontroller by walking beginners and experienced users alike through easily assembled projects comprised of inexpensive, hardware-store parts.Current ARM programming books take a bland, textbook approach focused on complex,...
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iPhone for seniors for dummies

Dwight Spivey · For Dummies
Pages: 448

A larger-print, graphic-rich guide to everything iPhone has to offer iPhone For Seniors For Dummies is the complete guide to getting the most out of your iPhone 6 or higher. Packed with full-color graphics and easy-to-read larger print, this book walks you through the various features that...
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The Hello Girls: America's First Women Soldiers

Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman · Harvard University Press
Pages: 370
Format: Hardcover

This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the U.S. Army. In 1918, the U.S. Army Signal Corps sent 223 women to France. They were masters of the latest technology: the telephone switchboard. General John Pershing, commander...
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