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Arduino

computer technology

by Benjamin Leanek ...

Series series computer technology
This book " Arduino" introduces several options for adding communication features to the Arduino.Standard learning processes such as the Teach Pendant control most industrial robots. Accelerometer-based gesture recognition has become famous for the past decade. The advantages of the accelerometer are low to medium and small. The wireless sensor system (with the Wii Remote, based on accelerometer) ... Read more

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This book " Arduino" introduces several options for adding communication features to the Arduino.Standard learning processes such as the Teach Pendant control most industrial robots. Accelerometer-based gesture recognition has become famous for the past decade. The advantages of the accelerometer are low to medium and small. The wireless sensor system (with the Wii Remote, based on accelerometer)
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Aws

computer technology

by Benjamin Leanek ...

Series series computer technology
AWS COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FOR BEGINNER AND EXPERTSAWS provides an introduction to Amazon Web Services, examples of what you can do with AWS, basic information that you need to know to get started, and gradually progressing through increasing complex real world case studies that will help you learn more no matter what your use case is.AWS is updated with more advanced documentations that make you ... Read more

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AWS COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE FOR BEGINNER AND EXPERTSAWS provides an introduction to Amazon Web Services, examples of what you can do with AWS, basic information that you need to know to get started, and gradually progressing through increasing complex real world case studies that will help you learn more no matter what your use case is.AWS is updated with more advanced documentations that make you
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More Everything Forever

AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity

by Adam Becker ...

'Book of the Year' as chosen by The Conversation'Disconcerting . . . a disturbing and important book' NEW SCIENTIST'Smart and wonderfully readable' NEW YORK TIMESThe bad science and sinister ideas behind Silicon Valley's foolish obsession with immortality, AI paradise and limitless growth.Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine ou... ... Read more

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'Book of the Year' as chosen by The Conversation'Disconcerting . . . a disturbing and important book' NEW SCIENTIST'Smart and wonderfully readable' NEW YORK TIMESThe bad science and sinister ideas behind Silicon Valley's foolish obsession with immortality, AI paradise and limitless growth.Tech billionaires have decided that they should determine ou...
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The Nerd Reich

Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy

by Gil Durán ...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA fearless and urgent exposé of technofascism – and a road map to resistance.When Silicon Valley ‘moves fast and breaks things’, the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. Gil Durán reveals something far more sinister afoot: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.Drawing on insider political exper... ... Read more

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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA fearless and urgent exposé of technofascism – and a road map to resistance.When Silicon Valley ‘moves fast and breaks things’, the world interprets the chaos as a necessary cost of innovation. Gil Durán reveals something far more sinister afoot: a decades-long campaign to replace elected governments with corporate rule.Drawing on insider political exper...
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The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI

How to Think About Artificial Intelligence Before It's Too Late

by Cory Doctorow ...

As we enter the age of AI, we are in danger of being reduced to what Cory Doctorow dubs the 'reverse centaur'. With that term he conjures a human being conscripted as the assistant to a dominant machine. It could be a driver made to deliver nonstop, all day long; a warehouse worker packing shelves without bathroom or food breaks; or a programmer reviewing impossible amounts of AI-produced code.Don ... Read more

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As we enter the age of AI, we are in danger of being reduced to what Cory Doctorow dubs the 'reverse centaur'. With that term he conjures a human being conscripted as the assistant to a dominant machine. It could be a driver made to deliver nonstop, all day long; a warehouse worker packing shelves without bathroom or food breaks; or a programmer reviewing impossible amounts of AI-produced code.Don
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End Times Fascism

And the Fight for the Living World

by Naomi Klein, Astra Taylor ...

A blistering exposé of the new far-right apocalyptic alliance that's on the move around the globe - and how we resistThe far right is on the march again – but this time it’s different from anything we’ve seen before. A new, apocalyptic alliance of religious fundamentalists, billionaire Silicon Valley tech kings and ethno-nationalists is on the move. They’re united in their belief that some kind of ... Read more

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A blistering exposé of the new far-right apocalyptic alliance that's on the move around the globe - and how we resistThe far right is on the march again – but this time it’s different from anything we’ve seen before. A new, apocalyptic alliance of religious fundamentalists, billionaire Silicon Valley tech kings and ethno-nationalists is on the move. They’re united in their belief that some kind of
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Hogwarts Legacy - Strategy Guide

by GamerGuides.com ...

Experience Hogwarts in the 1800s. Make allies, battle Dark wizards, and ultimately decide the fate of the wizarding world. Your legacy is what you make of it. Live the Unwritten. The guide for Hogwarts Legacy features everything you need to know to forge your legacy! Learn how to solve some of the trickiest puzzles, find Field Guide Pages and Collection Chests, and how to obtain every spell.- Tips ... Read more

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Experience Hogwarts in the 1800s. Make allies, battle Dark wizards, and ultimately decide the fate of the wizarding world. Your legacy is what you make of it. Live the Unwritten. The guide for Hogwarts Legacy features everything you need to know to forge your legacy! Learn how to solve some of the trickiest puzzles, find Field Guide Pages and Collection Chests, and how to obtain every spell.- Tips
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Django for Professionals

Production websites with Python & Django

by William Vincent ...

Completely updated for Django 4.0!Django for Professionals takes your web development skills to the next level, teaching you how to build production-ready websites with Python and Django.Once you have learned the basics of Django there is a massive gap between building simple "toy apps" and what it takes to build a "production-ready" web application suitable for deployment to thousands or even ... Read more

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Completely updated for Django 4.0!Django for Professionals takes your web development skills to the next level, teaching you how to build production-ready websites with Python and Django.Once you have learned the basics of Django there is a massive gap between building simple "toy apps" and what it takes to build a "production-ready" web application suitable for deployment to thousands or even
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The Psychology of Software Teams

by Cat Hicks ...

To build the future, we need new ways of supporting software teams. This book will give you a secret weapon: the psychology that creates resilience for developers, sustainable practices for software teams, and innovation for organizations. You’ll learn from rigorous empirical evidence gathered from top engineering organizations and thousands of developers around the world, revealing powerful ... Read more

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To build the future, we need new ways of supporting software teams. This book will give you a secret weapon: the psychology that creates resilience for developers, sustainable practices for software teams, and innovation for organizations. You’ll learn from rigorous empirical evidence gathered from top engineering organizations and thousands of developers around the world, revealing powerful
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Mark Zuckerberg: The Face Behind Facebook And Social Networking

by Daniel Alef ...

Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old founder of Facebook, is the youngest self-made billionaire in history. He is also considered by many to be one of the most influential persons in the information age. His impact on American culture is virtually unprecedented. The recent film, "Social Network" does not portray him in the kindest light, but is it a work of fact or fiction? Separating fiction from ... Read more

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Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-year-old founder of Facebook, is the youngest self-made billionaire in history. He is also considered by many to be one of the most influential persons in the information age. His impact on American culture is virtually unprecedented. The recent film, "Social Network" does not portray him in the kindest light, but is it a work of fact or fiction? Separating fiction from
... Read more
Law, Reinvented

Leading AI Transformation in Legal Practice

by Adam Curphey, Oz Benamram ...

Law, Reinvented: Leading AI Transformation in Legal Practice is a practical guide for legal professionals at every stage of their AI transformation, whether they are leading it inside their firm or organization, working through it day to day as practitioners, or stepping into the profession as it changes. Written by three experts in the field based in London and New York who work in this space ... Read more

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Law, Reinvented: Leading AI Transformation in Legal Practice is a practical guide for legal professionals at every stage of their AI transformation, whether they are leading it inside their firm or organization, working through it day to day as practitioners, or stepping into the profession as it changes. Written by three experts in the field based in London and New York who work in this space
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Earn Money Passively Using Your Android Phone

by Arny K.Tudor ...

We should feel blessed for living in the age of technology, now more than ever before earning yourself a few extra $$ is so easy a child could do it. I went quite detailed and technical while writing this eBook but don't feel demoralized, it is really easy to understand and follow along. I encourage you to give it a try and see for yourself. ... Read more

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We should feel blessed for living in the age of technology, now more than ever before earning yourself a few extra $$ is so easy a child could do it. I went quite detailed and technical while writing this eBook but don't feel demoralized, it is really easy to understand and follow along. I encourage you to give it a try and see for yourself.
... Read more
Little Blue Dot

How the Global Positioning System Shaped the Modern World

by Katherine Dunn ...

In this thrilling and utterly unique work of narrative non-fiction, Katherine Dunn explores the acute vulnerability of the GPS satellite system – in a book that lifts the lid on the invisible connections of the globe, from the space race to the phone in our pocketsThis is the story of the Global Positioning System, the network of U.S. government satellites that encircle the earth: a vast web that, ... Read more

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In this thrilling and utterly unique work of narrative non-fiction, Katherine Dunn explores the acute vulnerability of the GPS satellite system – in a book that lifts the lid on the invisible connections of the globe, from the space race to the phone in our pocketsThis is the story of the Global Positioning System, the network of U.S. government satellites that encircle the earth: a vast web that,
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MDM: Fundamentals, Security, and the Modern Desktop

Using Intune, Autopilot, and Azure to Manage, Deploy, and Secure Windows 10

by Jeremy Moskowitz ...

The first major book on MDM written by Group Policy and Enterprise Mobility MVP and renowned expert, Jeremy Moskowitz!With Windows 10, organizations can create a consistent set of configurations across the modern enterprise desktop—for PCs, tablets, and phones—through the common Mobile Device Management (MDM) layer. MDM gives organizations a way to configure settings that achieve their ... Read more

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The first major book on MDM written by Group Policy and Enterprise Mobility MVP and renowned expert, Jeremy Moskowitz!With Windows 10, organizations can create a consistent set of configurations across the modern enterprise desktop—for PCs, tablets, and phones—through the common Mobile Device Management (MDM) layer. MDM gives organizations a way to configure settings that achieve their
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Cult of the Dead Cow

How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

by Joseph Menn ...

The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our freedom, “a hugely important piece of the puzzle for anyone who wants to understand the forces shaping the internet age” (The New York Times Book Review)Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest active, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. With its origins in the earliest ... Read more

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The shocking untold story of the elite secret society of hackers fighting to protect our freedom, “a hugely important piece of the puzzle for anyone who wants to understand the forces shaping the internet age” (The New York Times Book Review)Cult of the Dead Cow is the tale of the oldest active, most respected, and most famous American hacking group of all time. With its origins in the earliest
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Streaming, Sharing, Stealing

Big Data and the Future of Entertainment

by Michael D. Smith, Rahul Telang ...

How big data is transforming the creative industries, and how those industries can use lessons from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple to fight back.“[The authors explain] gently yet firmly exactly how the internet threatens established ways and what can and cannot be done about it. Their book should be required for anyone who wishes to believe that nothing much has changed.”—The Wall Street Journal ... Read more

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How big data is transforming the creative industries, and how those industries can use lessons from Netflix, Amazon, and Apple to fight back.“[The authors explain] gently yet firmly exactly how the internet threatens established ways and what can and cannot be done about it. Their book should be required for anyone who wishes to believe that nothing much has changed.”—The Wall Street Journal
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Concurrency in Go

Tools and Techniques for Developers

by Katherine Cox-Buday ...

Concurrency can be notoriously difficult to get right, but fortunately, the Go open source programming language makes working with concurrency tractable and even easy. If you’re a developer familiar with Go, this practical book demonstrates best practices and patterns to help you incorporate concurrency into your systems.Author Katherine Cox-Buday takes you step-by-step through the process. You’ll ... Read more

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Concurrency can be notoriously difficult to get right, but fortunately, the Go open source programming language makes working with concurrency tractable and even easy. If you’re a developer familiar with Go, this practical book demonstrates best practices and patterns to help you incorporate concurrency into your systems.Author Katherine Cox-Buday takes you step-by-step through the process. You’ll
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The Modern Data Warehouse in Azure

Building with Speed and Agility on Microsoft’s Cloud Platform

by Matt How ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Build a modern data warehouse on Microsoft's Azure Platform that is flexible, adaptable, and fast—fast to snap together, reconfigure, and fast at delivering results to drive good decision making in your business.Gone are the days when data warehousing projects were lumbering dinosaur-style projects that took forever, drained budgets, and produced business intelligence (BI) just in time to tell you ... Read more

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Build a modern data warehouse on Microsoft's Azure Platform that is flexible, adaptable, and fast—fast to snap together, reconfigure, and fast at delivering results to drive good decision making in your business.Gone are the days when data warehousing projects were lumbering dinosaur-style projects that took forever, drained budgets, and produced business intelligence (BI) just in time to tell you
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This Is for Everyone

by Tim Berners-Lee ...

The most influential inventor of the modern world, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a different kind of visionary. Born in the same year as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Berners-Lee famously distributed his invention, the World Wide Web, for no commercial reward. Its widespread adoption changed everything – transforming humanity into the first digital species. Through the web, we live, work, dream and connect ... Read more

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The most influential inventor of the modern world, Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a different kind of visionary. Born in the same year as Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, Berners-Lee famously distributed his invention, the World Wide Web, for no commercial reward. Its widespread adoption changed everything – transforming humanity into the first digital species. Through the web, we live, work, dream and connect
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Press Reset

Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry

by Jason Schreier ...

From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart—and the stories, both triumphant and tragic, of what happened next.Jason Schreier's groundbreaking reporting has earned him a place among the preeminent investigative journalists covering the world of ... Read more

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From the bestselling author of Blood, Sweat, and Pixels comes the next definitive, behind-the-scenes account of the video game industry: how some of the past decade's most renowned studios fell apart—and the stories, both triumphant and tragic, of what happened next.Jason Schreier's groundbreaking reporting has earned him a place among the preeminent investigative journalists covering the world of
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You've Been Played

How Corporations, Governments and Schools Use Games to Control Us All

by Adrian Hon ...

How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation – and what we can do about itWarehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use ... Read more

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How games are being harnessed as instruments of exploitation – and what we can do about itWarehouse workers pack boxes while a virtual dragon races across their screen. If they beat their colleagues, they get an award. If not, they can be fired. Uber presents exhausted drivers with challenges to keep them driving. China scores its citizens so they behave well, and games with in-app purchases use
... Read more
AI Engineering

Building Applications with Foundation Models

by Chip Huyen ...

Recent breakthroughs in AI have not only increased demand for AI products, they've also lowered the barriers to entry for those who want to build AI products. The model-as-a-service approach has transformed AI from an esoteric discipline into a powerful development tool that anyone can use. Everyone, including those with minimal or no prior AI experience, can now leverage AI models to build ... Read more

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Recent breakthroughs in AI have not only increased demand for AI products, they've also lowered the barriers to entry for those who want to build AI products. The model-as-a-service approach has transformed AI from an esoteric discipline into a powerful development tool that anyone can use. Everyone, including those with minimal or no prior AI experience, can now leverage AI models to build
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Access 2016 For Dummies

by Ken Cook, Laurie A. Ulrich ...

Your all-access guide to all things Access 2016If you don't know a relational database from an isolationist table—but still need to figure out how to organize and analyze your data—Access 2016 For Dummies is for you. Written in a friendly and accessible manner, it assumes no prior Access or database-building knowledge and walks you through the basics of creating tables to store your data, building ... Read more

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Your all-access guide to all things Access 2016If you don't know a relational database from an isolationist table—but still need to figure out how to organize and analyze your data—Access 2016 For Dummies is for you. Written in a friendly and accessible manner, it assumes no prior Access or database-building knowledge and walks you through the basics of creating tables to store your data, building
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The Glow

'Jane Austen on steroids' (Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours)

by Jessie Gaynor ...

Inner peaceGlowing skinThe perfect bodyHow far would you go?Jane Dorner has two modes:PR Jane is twenty-five, breezy, clever in a non-threatening way and eager to sell you a feminist vibrator.Actual Jane is twenty-nine, drifting through mediocre workdays and lackluster dates while paralysed by her crushing mountain of overdue bills.Enter the impossibly gorgeous Cass, who... ... Read more

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Inner peaceGlowing skinThe perfect bodyHow far would you go?Jane Dorner has two modes:PR Jane is twenty-five, breezy, clever in a non-threatening way and eager to sell you a feminist vibrator.Actual Jane is twenty-nine, drifting through mediocre workdays and lackluster dates while paralysed by her crushing mountain of overdue bills.Enter the impossibly gorgeous Cass, who...
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