Computers & Technology

In his insightful and provocative work, Lennox explores the biblical text in light of the rapidly exploding world of technology, especially Artificial Intelligence (AI), and warns modern believers of the implications of Jesus’ final earthly message to his followers.

Nick Bostrom lays the foundation for understanding the future of humanity and intelligent life....

A fascinating exploration of how computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind All our lives are constrained by limited space and time, limits that give rise to a particular set of problems...

Read by the author. Will technology change what it means to be human? You don't have to be a computer scientist to have discerning conversations about artificial intelligence and technology. We all wonder where we're headed. Even now, technological innovations and machine learning have a daily...

Gene Kranz was present at the creation of America's manned space program and was a key player in it for three decades. As a flight director in NASA's Mission Control, Kranz witnessed firsthand the making of history. He participated in the space program from the early days of the Mercury program...

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...

Written “in the manner of a good crime thriller” (The Wall Street Journal), the inside story of the largest law-enforcement sting operation ever, in which the FBI created its own tech start-up to wiretap the world In 2018, a powerful app for secure communications called Anom took root among...

Artificial Intelligence is transforming every industry, but if you want to win with AI, you have to put it first on your priority list. AI-First companies are the only trillion-dollar companies, and soon they will dominate even more industries, more definitively than ever before. These companies...

Delving into the deeply enigmatic nature of Artificial Intelligence (AI), AI: Unexplainable, Unpredictable, Uncontrollable explores the various reasons why the field is so challenging. Written by one of the founders of the field of AI safety, this book addresses some of the most fascinating...

Have you ever thought you were being followed or watched? Have you ever needed to follow someone without being seen? Do you ever worry about the digital tracks you leave behind—or wonder how to vanish without a trace? Have you ever wished you could spot when someone is lying to you? In the...

In the newly revised second edition of Rewired, five experienced McKinsey leaders deliver an essential and incisive update to their widely read guide to planning and implementing AI transformations. The book walks you through the AI transformation from start to finish. You'll learn how to create...

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability need to be resolved. In addition, there's an overwhelming variety of systems, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores, data...

Nvidia is the darling of the age of artificial intelligence: the company’s chips are powering the generative-AI revolution, and demand is insatiable. For all the current interest and attention, however, Nvidia is not of our time. Founded more than three decades ago in a Denny’s in East San...

Before the internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security. But would...

You're spending hours wrestling with Claude—rewriting prompts, copying outputs, watching tutorials that were outdated before you finished them—and you still can't figure out how to make AI do anything that actually matters for your bottom line.

Data is at the center of many challenges in system design today. Difficult issues need to be figured out, such as scalability, consistency, reliability, efficiency, and maintainability. In addition, we have an overwhelming variety of tools, including relational databases, NoSQL datastores...

Newly adapted for audiobook listeners. Today, software engineers need to know not only how to program effectively but also how to develop proper engineering practices to make their codebase sustainable and healthy. This book emphasizes this difference between programming and software engineering...

Machine learning systems are both complex and unique. Complex because they consist of many different components and involve many different stakeholders. Unique because they're data dependent, with data varying wildly from one use case to the next. In this book, you'll learn a holistic approach...

AI has acquired startling new language capabilities in just the past few years. Driven by rapid advances in deep learning, language AI systems are able to write and understand text better than ever before. This trend is enabling new features, products, and entire industries. With this book...

Salary surveys worldwide regularly place software architect in the top 10 best jobs, yet no real guide exists to help developers become architects. Until now. This book provides the first comprehensive overview of software architecture’s many aspects. Aspiring and existing architects alike...

There are no easy decisions in software architecture. Instead, there are many hard parts—difficult problems or issues with no best practices—that force you to choose among various compromises. With this book, you'll learn how to think critically about the trade-offs involved with distributed...

In Your AI Survival Guide, Sol Rashidi delivers an insightful and practical discussion of how to deploy artificial intelligence in your company. Having helped IBM launch Watson in 2011, Sol has firsthand knowledge of the ups, downs, and change management intricacies that can help you with a...

These two unabridged chapters from Charles Mackay’s two-volume evergreen work, Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841) deal with the disastrous South Sea Bubble....

Suppose we develop superintelligence safely and ethically, and that we make good use of the almost magical powers this technology would unlock. We would transition into an era in which human labor becomes obsolete.

Fanatical Prospecting gives salespeople, sales leaders, entrepreneurs, and executives a practical, eye-opening guide that clearly explains the why and how behind the most important activity in sales and business development—prospecting. Step by step, Jeb Blount outlines his innovative approach...

Humanity in the age of AI How will we be changed by the rise of artificial intelligence? In this scintillating essay, Anna Goldsworthy argues that AI is a rupture that makes us confront what it is to be human – what we do, and want. As it learns human ways, AI raises big questions about work, leisure and education. It brings new existential, social and ethical risks. Above all, it invites us to consider what is irreplaceable in us, starting with the body and the friction of others. The God We Made is a brilliant inquiry into identity and a transformed future.

Have you ever thought you were being followed or watched? Have you ever needed to follow someone without being seen? Do you ever worry about the digital tracks you leave behind—or wonder how to vanish without a trace? Have you ever wished you could spot when someone is lying to you? In the...

Large language models (LLMs) have transformed natural language processing, but deploying them in applications introduces numerous technical challenges. Large Language Models: The Hard Parts offers a clear, practical examination of the limitations developers and AI engineers face when building...

A sweeping roadmap for business leaders in the AI age, when every organization must rethink how it operates, competes, and creates value—from AI legend and New York Times bestselling author of AI Superpowers and AI 2041 Kai-Fu Lee “Kai-Fu Lee is among our most prescient thinkers and...

Experience the world's most promising technological innovations and the science behind them in this entertaining photo-rich book. For futurists and sci-tech enthusiasts, every moment reveals advances powering our future, with on-site interviews, deep explainers, and helpful visuals.

Humachine Era by Professor Madee Salehi offers a compelling exploration of how artificial intelligence is reshaping the very fabric of society. Drawing on his unique background in sociology, computer science, computer engineering, and AI, Salehi examines the profound transformation underway across our most essential institutions, work, education, politics, and everyday life.

From New York Times editor Eric Athas comes a groundbreaking solution on how to rewire our impulses to consume new things and reclaim control of our lives and spending habits. New things are everywhere—and they’re causing us to disconnect from what we value most in life. One of the biggest...

A savvy, real-world guide to creating a profitable social media presence that stands out in an oversaturated industry Today, when the average American spends around 4.5 hours a day on their phones—including 2.5 hours scrolling social media—it is undeniable that a well-crafted social media...

Learn object-oriented C++ without getting buried in confusing theory. Object-oriented programming can feel intimidating when you are just starting out. Classes, objects, inheritance, polymorphism, constructors, destructors, encapsulation, abstraction, and clean code design all sound complicated at first. But they do not have to be. Object-Oriented C++ for Beginners breaks down the core ideas of OOP in plain English, using simple examples and practical explanations that help you understand not just what the code does, but why it matters.

The inside story of how Big Tech catalyzed, co-opted, and ultimately came to capture computer science and AI education in America. Fourth graders doing Google-branded coding lessons. Amazon schooling seventh graders on its warehouse robots. Advanced Placement computing courses from Microsoft and...

Understand how artificial intelligence actually works, from first principles to generative models AI Explained: A Guide for Non-Technical Readers builds understanding of artificial intelligence from first principles rather than diving in at the top. Written by experienced policy and technical...

A step-by-step leadership guide to help overcome employee resistance to AI, boost innovation, and unlock AI's full business value As leaders rush to adopt artificial intelligence (AI)—driven by its potential to revolutionize operations, boost return on investment, and drive innovation—they...

There is a voice in the world that has begun to sound like God. It is calm. Helpful. It knows your name. And every day, it becomes harder to distinguish from the still, small voice the human soul was made to hear. What if the voice learning your speech today is the voice that will one day issue...

'Top notch. Unfolding like a nerdy occult techno-thriller, Watkins tells the weird tale of how he discovered two ghosts in the LLM machine' ERIK DAVIS, author of High Weirdness A gripping descent into the hidden psychology of AI, and the strange subcultures trying to control it before it...

AI changed the speed of product development. It did not change the speed of research. Design generates options in hours. Engineering ships in days. By the time a traditional study lands, the decision is already made. Research keeps getting bypassed, not because the work is bad, but because the operating model was built for a tempo that no longer exists.

The ChatGPT-5 Millionaire is a practical guide to using AI to build, automate, and scale an online business with less time and effort. Learn how to turn ideas into income, create digital products, build recurring revenue streams, use affiliate marketing and e-commerce automation, and develop a powerful digital marketing strategy with ChatGPT-5.

The age of AI is not what you think. Rather than ushering in a fourth Industrial Revolution, AI has become a crucial social infrastructure of everyday life. It's embedded in the tools, platforms, and systems that organize our most intimate lives and our interactions with the most fundamental institutions of society, from government agencies to banks and schools. In these linkages are embedded assumptions about who we are, what we can do, and where we belong.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. The spreadsheet let accountants model their finances without a programmer, and the smartphone put a capable computer in nearly every pocket. Now artificial intelligence is quietly performing another shift, and most people still type a question, read an...

“Lepore is our best scholar of the culture of governance. … Here she repudiates the prospect of AI as a replacement for democracy. This is the issue of our times … Lepore is the voice of sanity.”—Jaron Lanier, author of You Are Not a Gadget “Much in history is headlong but few grand...

You’re wasting time doing things your computer could do for you. Clicking through folders. Repeating the same commands. Running tasks over and over again. It adds up. Bash scripting fixes that. With just a few simple scripts, you can automate your workflow, eliminate repetitive work, and get more done in less time—without needing to be a programmer. This book shows you how.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Your system is working. Every test passes. The dashboard is green. A model refused to answer while the answer sat in front of it, complete and correct, and then invented a data quality problem to justify the refusal, in the register of a careful bug...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Six times during this programme, something the author had built reported a confident falsehood. Not one of the six was caught by a check he had written. One of them was the strongest finding in the entire project: a perfect result, every trial, in the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Eleven of the most widely taught prompt engineering techniques were run against a control that gave no instruction at all. A single sentence about a Tuesday afternoon. Not one of them beat it. Think step by step. Take a deep breath. You are an expert...

Learn C++ the way beginners actually understand it—by building real programs step by step. Most people do not struggle with C++ because they are not smart enough. They struggle because they get thrown into complicated syntax, dry explanations, and endless theory before they ever build something that actually works. C++ Projects for Beginners fixes that.

Is your organization relying on the passive illusion of "assurance" when it desperately requires the rigorous discipline of "engineering"? In Philosophy of Software Quality Engineering, IT/IS architect and veteran engineer Martin J. Lammer delivers a groundbreaking philosophical treatise that dismantles traditional Software Quality Assurance (SQA) paradigms. Rebuilt from the ground up, this text establishes a new foundation based on rigorous engineering, ontology, and pragmatism. The software industry is currently in an epistemological crisis.