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Title: Driverless

Subtitle: Intelligent Cars and the Road Ahead

Author: Hod Lipson, Melba Kurman

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-07-16

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 86 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

In the year 2014, Google fired a shot heard all the way to Detroit.

Google's newest driverless car had no steering wheel and no brakes. The message was clear: cars of the future will be born fully autonomous, with no human driver needed. In the coming decade, self-driving cars will hit the streets, rearranging established industries and reshaping cities, giving us new choices in where we live and how we work and play.

In this book, Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman offer listeners insight into the risks and benefits of driverless cars, and a lucid and engaging explanation of the enabling technology. Recent advances in software and robotics are toppling long-standing technological barriers that for decades have confined self-driving cars to the realm of fantasy. A new kind of artificial intelligence software called deep learning gives cars rapid and accurate visual perception. Human drivers can relax and take their eyes off the road.

When human drivers let intelligent software take the wheel, driverless cars will offer billions of people all over the world a safer, cleaner, and more convenient mode of transportation. Although the technology is nearly ready, car companies and policy makers may not be. The authors make a compelling case for why government, industry, and consumers need to work together to make the development of driverless cars our society's next "Apollo moment".

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Title: Hacking with Python

Subtitle: The Complete Beginner's Guide to Learning Ethical Hacking with Python Along with Practical Examples

Author: Miles Price

Narrator: Matyas J.

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-12-18

Publisher: Miles Price

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Ethical hacking is the art of testing your own network and computers for security holes and learning how to close them up before an unethical hacker gets the chance to get in and do damage. With all the stories in the news on an almost daily basis about hacking, digital security has become one of the most crucial factors in our lives.

Most people do their banking online, they use PayPal, they use email and these, plus any other service or website you use with personal information, are open to being hacked.

To put it very simply, a hacker is a person who can gain access to a computer system or network and exploit it to steal information, steal financial details, send a virus down to it, and do all sorts of other damage.

This book is designed to help you develop the methods you need to keep those hackers away from your system. And, to do that, you must learn to think like a hacker!

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Title: Deep Thinking

Subtitle: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

Author: Garry Kasparov, Mig Greengard

Narrator: Bob Brown, Garry Kasparov - introduction

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-02-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 103 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Garry Kasparov's 1997 chess match against the IBM supercomputer Deep Blue was a watershed moment in the history of technology. It was the dawn of a new era in artificial intelligence: a machine capable of beating the reigning human champion at this most cerebral game.

That moment was more than a century in the making, and in this breakthrough book, Kasparov reveals his astonishing side of the story for the first time. He describes how it felt to strategize against an implacable, untiring opponent with the whole world watching, and recounts the history of machine intelligence through the microcosm of chess, considered by generations of scientific pioneers to be a key to unlocking the secrets of human and machine cognition. Kasparov uses his unrivaled experience to look into the future of intelligent machines and sees it bright with possibility. As many critics decry artificial intelligence as a menace, particularly to human jobs, Kasparov shows how humanity can rise to new heights with the help of our most extraordinary creations, rather than fear them. Deep Thinking is a tightly argued case for technological progress, from the man who stood at its precipice with his own career at stake.

Critic Reviews:

"A highly human exploration of artificial intelligence, its exciting possibilities and inherent limits." (Max Levchin, cofounder of PayPal, CEO of Affirm, and Silicon Valley angel investor)

"Garry Kasparov's perspectives on artificial intelligence are borne of personal experience - and despite that, are optimistic, wise and compelling. It's one thing for the giants of Silicon Valley to tell us our future is bright; it is another thing to hear it from the man who squared off with the world's most powerful computer, with the whole world watching, and his very identity at stake." (Charles Duhigg, best-selling author of

Smarter Faster Better )

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Title: Fire in the Valley

Subtitle: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer

Author: Michael Swaine, Paul Freiberger

Narrator: Don Azevedo

Format: Unabridged

Length: 15 hrs and 24 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-10-17

Publisher: Pragmatic Programmer

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 16 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dropouts, hippies, and electronics fanatics were engaged in something much more subversive. Obsessed with the idea of getting computer power into their own hands, they launched from their garages a hobbyist movement that grew into an industry, and ultimately a social and technological revolution. What they did was invent the personal computer: not just a new device, but a watershed in the relationship between man and machine. This is their story.

Fire in the Valley is the definitive history of the personal computer, drawn from interviews with the people who made it happen, written by two veteran computer writers who were there from the start. Working at InfoWorld in the early 1980s, Swaine and Freiberger daily rubbed elbows with people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates when they were creating the personal computer revolution.

A rich story of colorful individuals, Fire in the Valley profiles these unlikely revolutionaries and entrepreneurs, such as Ed Roberts of MITS, Lee Felsenstein at Processor Technology, and Jack Tramiel of Commodore, as well as Jobs and Gates in all the innocence of their formative years.

This completely revised and expanded third edition brings the story to its completion, chronicling the end of the personal computer revolution and the beginning of the post-PC era. It covers the departure from the stage of major players with the deaths of Steve Jobs and Douglas Engelbart and the retirements of Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer; the shift away from the PC to the cloud and portable devices; and what the end of the PC era means for issues such as personal freedom and power, and open source versus proprietary software.

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Title: Machines of Loving Grace

Subtitle: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots

Author: John Markoff

Narrator: George Newbern

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-15

Publisher: HarperAudio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 140 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

As robots are increasingly integrated into modern society - on the battlefield and the road, in business, education, and health - Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times science writer John Markoff searches for an answer to one of the most important questions of our age: Will these machines help us, or will they replace us?

In the past decade alone, Google introduced us to driverless cars, Apple debuted a personal assistant that we keep in our pockets, and an Internet of Things connected the smaller tasks of everyday life to the farthest reaches of the Internet. There is little doubt that robots are now an integral part of society, and cheap sensors and powerful computers will ensure that in the coming years, these robots will soon act on their own. This new era offers the promise of immense computing power, but it also reframes a question first raised more than half a century ago, at the birth of the intelligent machine: Will we control these systems, or will they control us?

In Machines of Loving Grace, New York Times reporter John Markoff, the first reporter to cover the World Wide Web, offers a sweeping history of the complicated and evolving relationship between humans and computers. Over the recent years, the pace of technological change has accelerated dramatically, reintroducing this difficult ethical quandary with newer and far weightier consequences. As Markoff chronicles the history of automation, from the birth of the artificial intelligence and intelligence augmentation communities in the 1950s to the modern-day brain trusts at Google and Apple in Silicon Valley and on to the expanding tech corridor between Boston and New York, he traces the different ways developers have addressed this fundamental problem and urges them to carefully consider the consequences of their work.

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Title: Blockchain: The Complete Bible to Understanding Blockchain Technology, Bitcoin, and the Future of Money

Author: T.J. Richmond

Narrator: Weston Gritt

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 6 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-23-17

Publisher: T.J. Richmond

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 47 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

Blockchain technology is already being called the most important new technology since the creation of the Internet, despite the fact that only a small fraction of the population uses it on a regular basis. As such, you are now in a unique position to be at the forefront of the biggest technological expansion of the decade.

Some of the specifics can be a bit opaque, however, which is why the following chapters will take it slow and start out by discussing the basics of blockchain and describing how it works in simple terms so that everything is on the same page when it comes to the details.

There are plenty of books on this subject on the market, thanks again for choosing this one! Every effort was made to ensure it is full of as much useful information as possible. Please enjoy!

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Title: What Algorithms Want

Subtitle: Imagination in the Age of Computing

Author: Ed Finn

Narrator: Scott Merriman

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 02-17-17

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes

Genres: Science & Technology, Technology

Publisher's Summary:

We depend on - we believe in - algorithms to help us get a ride, choose which book to buy, execute a mathematical proof. It's as if we think of code as a magic spell, an incantation to reveal what we need to know and even what we want. Humans have always believed that certain invocations - the marriage vow, the shaman's curse - do not merely describe the world but make it. Computation casts a cultural shadow that is shaped by this long tradition of magical thinking. In What Algorithms Want, Ed Finn considers how the algorithm - in practical terms, "a method for solving a problem" - has its roots not only in mathematical logic but also in cybernetics, philosophy, and magical thinking.

Finn argues that the algorithm deploys concepts from the idealized space of computation in a messy reality, with unpredictable and sometimes fascinating results. Drawing on sources that range from Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash to Diderot's Encyclopédie, from Adam Smith to the Star Trek computer, Finn explores the gap between theoretical ideas and pragmatic instructions. He examines the development of intelligent assistants like Siri, the rise of algorithmic aesthetics at Netflix, Ian Bogost's satiric Facebook game Cow Clicker, and the revolutionary economics of Bitcoin. He describes Google's goal of anticipating our questions, Uber's cartoon maps and black box accounting, and what Facebook tells us about programmable value, among other things.

If we want to understand the gap between abstraction and messy reality, Finn argues, we need to build a model of "algorithmic reading" and scholarship that attends to process, spearheading a new experimental humanities.

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