Over the last fifty years, humanity has developed an extraordinary shared utility: the Global Positioning System. Omnipresent, free, and available to all, GPS powers everything from your phone to the Internet to the Mars Rover. Greg Milner tells the sweeping story of GPS from its conceptual origins as ...
2016 marks the 60-year anniversary of the phrase 'Artificial Intelligence' and in this fascinating book, Luke Dormehl charts the weird and wonderful journey of one of mankind's greatest projects, the creation of Thinking Machines.
If you loved Hidden Figures or The Rise of the Rocket Girls, you'll love Claire Evans' breakthrough book on the women who brought you the internet--written out of history, until now. "This is a radically important, timely work," says Miranda July, filmmaker and author of The First Bad Man. The history ...
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Become a master of Minecraft with this ultimate guide! Follow the step-by-step instructions to create 30 incredible builds, from sky fortresses to aircraft carriers. The builds are split into quick, intermediate, and master level, and the guide is packed with facts, hints, and tips about blocks, biomes, ...
2016 marks the 60-year anniversary of the phrase 'Artificial Intelligence' and in this fascinating book, Luke Dormehl charts the weird and wonderful journey of one of mankind's greatest projects, the creation of Thinking Machines.
China now contains 250 million Internet users, the largest in the world, and growing. Fortunes have been made, but more importantly, society and business are being transformed along the unique lines of Chinese Internet development. This will substantially affect the business and political character of ...
"Magisterial...Draws an elegant and illuminating parallel between the late-19th-century electrification of America and today's computing world." -Salon
With insider info and tips from the experts at Mojang, this is the definitive guide to Minecraft Dungeons. It is a dark and dangerous time. Corrupted by the Orb of Dominance, the evil Arch-Illager has gathered a loyal following of Illagers. Together they have ravaged the land, enslaving the peaceful ...
Award-winning journalist David Ewing Duncan sketches twenty-four visions of possible human-robot futures - short scenarios grounded in present-day technologies and ideas, but inspired by imagination. He explores how robots and AI systems may impact on individuals and societies over the next few years, centuries and beyond - for better or for worse.
Coding HTML and CSS will help with starting small and medium projects, such as customising your blog or making your own website, and give practical examples of techniques that will make coding simple.
This volume examines wide-ranging aspects of culture, communication, and [new] media broadly defined. Themes include the interplay between [new] media and any of the following: culture, communication, technology, convergence, the arts, cultural production, and cultural change in the digital age.
In the attention economy, online influencers are an emerging class of power brokers. How can you harness their potential? Break the Internet takes a deep dive into the influencer industry, tracing its evolution from blogging and legacy social media such as Tumblr to today's world in which YouTube, Instagram, ...
Relying on web-based solutions and removing the need for purchased software, sites in Web 2.0 as it is known are usually based around a single, simple idea and usually encourage social interaction. This is a mini-encyclopedia of these sites and applications. It presents the developments in internet technology.
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