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ChatGPT And the Future of AI
- The Deep Language Revolution
- By: Terrence J. Sejnowski
- Narrated by: Randy McCarten
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Terrence Sejnowski offers a nuanced exploration of large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and what their future holds. How should we go about understanding LLMs? Do these language models truly understand what they are saying? Or is it possible that what appears to be intelligence in LLMs may be a mirror that merely reflects the intelligence of the interviewer? In this book, Sejnowski, a pioneer in computational approaches to understanding brain function, answers all our urgent questions about this astonishing new technology.
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ChatGPT And the Future of AI
- The Deep Language Revolution
- Narrated by: Randy McCarten
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 10-01-25
- Language: English
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Men, Machines, and Modern Times, 50th Anniversary Edition
- By: Elting E. Morison
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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This 50th anniversary edition of Men, Machines, and Modern Times, though ultimately concerned with a positive alternative to an Orwellian 1984, offers an entertaining series of historical accounts taken from the 19th century to highlight a main theme: the nature of technological change, the fission brought about in society by such change, and society's reaction to that change.
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Still relevant, but no longer new
- By JCM on 18-10-23
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Men, Machines, and Modern Times, 50th Anniversary Edition
- Narrated by: Sean Pratt
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 05-08-16
- Language: English
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High Bias
- The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- By: Marc Masters
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don't like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities. This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s to its Walkman-led domination in the 1980s to decline at the birth of compact discs to resurgence among independent music makers.
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High Bias
- The Distorted History of the Cassette Tape
- Narrated by: Paul Brion
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 17-10-23
- Language: English
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Recoding History: Audacious Women Who Shaped Our Digital World
- By: Treefort Media
- Narrated by: Reshma Saujani
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
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Recoding History: The Audacious Women Who Shaped Our Digital World is an immersive look into the lives of some of computer history's most ingenious and audacious women. Pulling from the Computer History Museum’s archives and hosted by Reshma Saujani, the founder of Girls Who Code, listeners will learn and laugh along with these great minds as they recount their stories in their own words.
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Good overview into some amazing people
- By Kev Fisher on 03-07-24
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Recoding History: Audacious Women Who Shaped Our Digital World
- Narrated by: Reshma Saujani
- Length: 4 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 29-02-24
- Language: English
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Nuclear Russia
- The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture
- By: Paul Josephson
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
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Bloomsbury presents Nuclear Russia by Paul Josephson, read by Leighton Pugh. In the first cultural and political history of the Russian nuclear age, Paul Josephson describes the rise of nuclear physics in the USSR, the enthusiastic pursuit of military and peaceful nuclear programs through the...
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Nuclear Russia
- The Atom in Russian Politics and Culture
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 4 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 22-12-22
- Language: English
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Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
- By: Nicholas de Monchaux
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
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When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the lunar surface in July of 1969, they wore spacesuits made by Playtex: 21 layers of fabric, each with a distinct yet interrelated function, custom-sewn for them by seamstresses whose usual work was fashioning bras and girdles. This book is the story of that spacesuit. It is a story of the triumph over the military-industrial complex by the International Latex Corporation, best known by its consumer brand of "Playtex" - a victory of elegant softness over engineered hardness, of adaptation over cybernetics.
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Surprising history & production of a space suit
- By Paul on 20-07-15
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Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 13-05-14
- Language: English
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Engineering Hitler's Downfall
- The Brains That Enabled Victory
- By: Gwilym Roberts
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Engineering Hitler's Downfall features numerous inventions such as the decoding machines developed at Bletchley Park; the hand-held mine detectors that cleared pathways through enemy minefields, firstly at the Battle of el Alamein but also in most subsequent actions; the newly-located factories and tanks that enabled the Russians to repulse the German invasion; the escort carriers and long range aircraft that enabled U-boats to be attacked in the mid-Atlantic; and the 4000 plus Bailey bridges that allowed narrow ravines and rivers as wide as the Rhine to be crossed.
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Engineering Hitler's Downfall
- The Brains That Enabled Victory
- Narrated by: Bruce Mann
- Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 28-10-25
- Language: English
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Thirteen
- The Apollo Flight that Failed
- By: Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.
- Narrated by: Christopher David
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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On the evening of April 13, 1970, the three astronauts aboard Apollo 13 were just hours from the third lunar landing in history. But as they soared through space, 200,000 miles from Earth, an explosion badly damaged their spacecraft. Thirteen is the shocking and miraculous true story of how the astronauts and ground crew guided Apollo 13 back to Earth. Expanding on dispatches written for The New Yorker, Henry S. F. Cooper Jr. brings listeners unparalleled detail on the moment-by-moment developments of one of NASA’s most dramatic missions.
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Thirteen
- The Apollo Flight that Failed
- Narrated by: Christopher David
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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Turing
- Pioneer of the Information Age
- By: B. Jack Copeland
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Alan Turing can be regarded as one of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. But who was Turing, and what did he achieve during his tragically short life of 41 years? Best known as the genius who broke Germany's most secret codes during the war of 1939-45, Turing was also the father of the modern computer. Today, all who 'click-to-open' are familiar with the impact of Turing's ideas. Here, B. Jack Copeland provides an account of Turing's life and work, exploring the key elements of his life-story in tandem with his leading ideas and contributions.
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Turning for Knighthood versus Turning the man
- By Catriona Ferris on 14-05-21
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Turing
- Pioneer of the Information Age
- Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
- Release date: 16-06-14
- Language: English
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Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Space
- By: Rick Houston
- Narrated by: James Killavey
- Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
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Humanity's first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASA's space shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole space shuttle program came into question, as did NASA itself, so long an institution that was seemingly above reproach. Wheels Stop tells the stirring story of how, after the Challenger disaster, the space shuttle not only recovered but went on to perform its greatest missions.
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Did not finish due to Awful Narrator
- By Jonathan on 10-10-16
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Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Space
- Narrated by: James Killavey
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 05-01-16
- Language: English
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Grateful Geek
- 50 Years of Apple and Other Tech Adventures
- By: Jean-Louis Gassée
- Narrated by: Adam Paul
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
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For the past 20+ years, everyone has been waiting for the story to be told. What really happened at Apple when Jobs returned and Gassee was out? In this first-ever comprehensive memoir, Gassee doesn’t hold anything back. From his stellar career to his deepest moments of doubt to his new calling as a grandfather, Gassee dispenses his legendarily witty advice and shares some very important moments of the tech world.
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Grateful Geek
- 50 Years of Apple and Other Tech Adventures
- Narrated by: Adam Paul
- Length: 5 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 14-07-23
- Language: English
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Marconi
- The Man Who Networked the World
- By: Marc Raboy
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 31 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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As Marc Raboy shows us in this enthralling and comprehensive biography, Marconi was the first truly global figure in modern communications. Born to an Italian father and an Irish mother, he was in many ways stateless, working his cosmopolitanism to advantage. Through a combination of skill, tenacity, luck, vision, and timing, Marconi popularized - and, more critically, patented - the use of radio waves.
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Fascinating and detailed biography
- By Sean on 20-10-20
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Marconi
- The Man Who Networked the World
- Narrated by: Allan Robertson
- Length: 31 hrs and 33 mins
- Release date: 04-04-17
- Language: English
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Androids
- The Team That Built the Android Operating System
- By: Chet Haase
- Narrated by: Chet Haase
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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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 Team That Built the Android Operating System is a firsthand chronological account of how the startup began, how the team came together, and how they all built an operating system from the kernel level to its applications, and everything in between.
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Footnotes breaks the flow
- By Anton Johansson on 06-09-22
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Androids
- The Team That Built the Android Operating System
- Narrated by: Chet Haase
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 26-07-22
- Language: English
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Footprints in the Dust
- The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975
- By: Richard F. Gordon Jr, Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Jerry Longe
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The flight of Apollo 11 was a triumph of human endeavor, persistence, and technology, one of the greatest achievements in human history. This book begins with the mission that sent Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin to the moon, then follows American spaceflight through the harrowing rescue of Apollo 13 before moving on to the successful joint Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975.
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Requires a broader interest than just the landings
- By Nico on 25-06-15
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Footprints in the Dust
- The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975
- Narrated by: Jerry Longe
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 21-11-14
- Language: English
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The Metaverse
- Building the Spatial Internet / Fully Revised and Updated Edition
- By: Matthew Ball
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
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In this fully revised and updated edition of his internationally best-selling book, pioneering theorist and entrepreneur Matthew Ball goes beyond the hype cycle to present a definitive account of the future of the internet. The Metaverse, according to Ball’s industry-shaping definition, is a persistent and interconnected network of 3D virtual worlds that will eventually serve as the gateway to most online experiences and underpin much of the physical world.
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The Metaverse
- Building the Spatial Internet / Fully Revised and Updated Edition
- Narrated by: Luis Moreno
- Length: 17 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 23-07-24
- Language: English
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Foxbat Tales
- The MiG-25 in Combat
- By: Mike Guardia
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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July 1967: At the Moscow Air Show, the Soviets unveiled six new state-of-the-art aircraft. From among this lineup of new fighters and interceptors stood the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-25 - purportedly capable of outrunning and outmaneuvering any aircraft in NATO’s inventory. Yet even before its public appearance in Moscow, the MiG-25 had been a grave concern for Western analysts.
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Foxbat Tales
- The MiG-25 in Combat
- Narrated by: Johnny Heller
- Length: 3 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 20-03-21
- Language: English
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IBM
- The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)
- By: James W. Cortada
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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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 over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success. The company almost went out of business in the early 1990s, then came back strong with new business strategies and an emphasis on artificial intelligence. In this authoritative history, James Cortada tells the story of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.
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More a history of business than computing
- By Amazon Customer on 29-06-24
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IBM
- The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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Fertility Technology
- By: Donna J. Drucker
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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In the late 1850s, a physician in New York City used a syringe and glass tube to inject half a drop of sperm into a woman's uterus, marking the first recorded instance of artificial insemination. From that day forward, doctors and scientists have turned to technology in ever more innovative ways to facilitate conception. Fertility Technology surveys this history in all its medical, practical, and ethical complexity, and offers a look at state-of-the-art fertility technology in various social and political contexts around the world.
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Fertility Technology
- Narrated by: Christa Lewis
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
- History of Computing
- By: Marie Hicks
- Narrated by: Becky White
- Length: 11 hrs
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In Programmed Inequality, Marie Hicks explores the story of labor feminization and gendered technocracy that undercut British efforts to computerize. Women were a hidden engine of growth in high technology from World War II to the 1960s. As computing experienced a gender flip, labor problems grew into structural ones, and gender discrimination caused the nation's largest computer user to make decisions that were disastrous for the British computer industry and the nation as a whole.
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Programmed Inequality: How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing
- History of Computing
- Narrated by: Becky White
- Length: 11 hrs
- Release date: 27-02-18
- Language: English
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Too Far From Home
- A Story of Life and Death in Space
- By: Chris Jones
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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An incredible true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all–outer space For a special breed of individual, the call of space is worth the risk it entails: men such as U.S. astronauts Donald Pettit and Kenneth Bowersox, and Russian flight engineer Nikolai Budarin, who in...
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Honest and open about reality of space.
- By Judith B. on 18-01-21
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Too Far From Home
- A Story of Life and Death in Space
- Narrated by: Erik Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
- Release date: 08-03-07
- Language: English
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