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The Dark Cloud: The Hidden Costs of the Digital World

Guillaume Pitron - Scribe US
Format: Paperback

A gripping new investigation into the underbelly of digital technology, which reveals not only how costly the virtual world is, but how damaging it is to the environment.The Dark Cloud is the searing exposé of the immense toll the "cloud" takes on our environment. A simple "like"...
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iPhone For Dummies

Guy Hart-Davis - For Dummies
Format: 2024th Edition

The smart guide to your smartphone -- updated for the latest iOS and iPhone releasesFully updated to cover the newest features of iOS and the latest iPhone models, iPhone For Dummies helps you keep in touch with family and friends, take pictures, play games, follow the news, stream music...
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Easy Money: Cryptocurrency, Casino Capitalism, and the Golden Age of Fraud

Ben McKenzie - Harry N. Abrams
Format: Hardcover

From a famous actor and an experienced journalist, a wildly entertaining debunking of cryptocurrency, one of the greatest frauds in history and on course for a spectacular crash. At the height of the pandemic, TV star Ben McKenzie (The O.C., Gotham) was the perfect mark for cryptocurrency:...
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Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform

Rachel O'Dwyer - Verso
Format: Hardcover

Platform capitalism is coming for the money in your pocket. **Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year**. Wherever you look, money is being re-placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens,...
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Robots and the People Who Love Them: Holding on to Our Humanity in an Age of Social Robots

Eve Herold - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

The latest developments in robotics and artificial intelligence and a preview of the coming decades, based on research and interviews with the world's foremost experts. . If there's one universal trait among humans, it's our social nature. The craving to connect is universal,...
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Drawing 100 Years of Disney Wonder: A retrospective collection of artwork featuring iconic Disney characters from the past 100 years (Licensed Learn to Draw)

Jim Fanning - Walter Foster Publishing
Format: Hardcover

Travel back through 100 years of The Walt Disney Company with 240 pages of art instruction and animation history with Drawing 100 Years of Disney Wonder.. Featuring Mickey Mouse and his friends, the Disney Princess characters, Pixar characters, and so much more, Drawing 100 Years of Disney...
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Painting Abstract Nature on Canvas: A guide to creating vibrant art with watercolour and mixed media

Jane Betteridge - Search Press
Format: Paperback

Create dynamic watercolor and mixed media abstract art works with bestselling artist Jane Betteridge. Expand your skill set and be inspired to explore with color!. An outstanding instructional art book with pictures that illustrate each step. Creative readers of all skill levels will likely...
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A Brief History of Artificial Intelligence: What It Is, Where We Are, and Where We Are Going

Michael Wooldridge - Flatiron Books
Format: Hardcover

From Oxford's leading AI researcher comes a fun and accessible tour through the history and future of one of the most cutting edge and misunderstood field in science: Artificial IntelligenceThe somewhat ill-defined long-term aim of AI is to build machines that are conscious, self-aware,...
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Quantum Supremacy: How the Quantum Computer Revolution Will Change Everything

Michio Kaku - Random House Audio
Format: Hardcover

An exhilarating tour of humanity's next great technological achievement - quantum computing - which may eventually unravel the deepest mysteries of science and solve some of humanity's biggest problems, like global warming, world hunger, and incurable disease, by the bestselling...
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Broken Code: Inside Facebook and the Fight to Expose Its Harmful Secrets

Jeff Horwitz - Doubleday
Format: Hardcover

By an award-winning technology reporter for The Wall Street Journal, a behind-the-scenes look at the manipulative tactics Facebook used to grow its business, how it distorted the way we connect online, and the company insiders who found the courage to speak out. "A page-turning narrative...
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