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1 hour 40 min

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Autobiografía de una IA

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Talking to Robots

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101 Amazing Nintendo NES Facts

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History of Computers for Beginners, The: A Beginner's Guide to How Computing Changed the World

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10 hours 19 min

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The Irrational Decision

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7 hours 42 min

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The Man Who Invented the Computer

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8 hours 15 min

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From 1960 to 2060 The History Of The Internet, Bits and Bobs, and Beyond

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History of the Internet: From Military Networks to Global Encryption, Cryptography, and the Connected World

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Unabridged

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History of Cryptography: From Ancient Ciphers to Quantum Keys and the Codebreakers Who Changed the World

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1 hour 50 min

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Unabridged

11 hours 12 min

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10 hours 19 min

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Androids

The Team that Built the Android Operating System

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Unabridged

10 hours 26 min

The fascinating inside story of how the Android operating system came to be.In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera software) to over 3 billion devices worldwide. This is the inside story, told by the people who made it happen.Androids: The ... Read more

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Fancy Bear Goes Phishing

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15 hours 9 min

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1 hour 51 min

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Brief History of the Information Age, A: How Data Came to Rule the World

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Programming Language History: From Punch Cards to Python and Beyond, the Story of How Code Evolved and Changed the Modern World

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1 hour 55 min

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IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)

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A former IBM employee offers an authoritative history of the successes and failures of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue”—an icon. And yet ... Read more

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History of the Internet, The: The Complete Story of How the Web, Social Media, and Technology Shaped Our Modern World

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1 hour 15 min

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The Technological Republic

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by Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska ...

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Unabridged

6 hours 50 min

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street JournalFrom the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a critically-acclaimed and sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing ... Read more

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Anonymous Heritage

Autobiografía de una IA

Talking to Robots

101 Amazing Nintendo NES Facts

Practical Java Programming: Concepts and Its Applications

History of Computers for Beginners, The: A Beginner's Guide to How Computing Changed the World

Keep Calm and Log On

The Irrational Decision

The Man Who Invented the Computer

From 1960 to 2060 The History Of The Internet, Bits and Bobs, and Beyond

What is Blockchain?

History of the Internet: From Military Networks to Global Encryption, Cryptography, and the Connected World

History of Cryptography: From Ancient Ciphers to Quantum Keys and the Codebreakers Who Changed the World

Man-Made

Breaking Through Bytes

Androids

Fancy Bear Goes Phishing

Brief History of Search Engines, A: How We Learned to Find Anything

Brief History of the Information Age, A: How Data Came to Rule the World

Programming Language History: From Punch Cards to Python and Beyond, the Story of How Code Evolved and Changed the Modern World

IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)

History of the Internet, The: The Complete Story of How the Web, Social Media, and Technology Shaped Our Modern World

The Technological Republic

High Noon