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With Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off. Zuckerberg has been on the front line of the social media movement since Facebook's early days and her following six years as a marketing executive for the company. Her part-memoir, part-how-to-manual addresses issues of privacy, online presence, networking, etiquette, and the future of social change.

Patrick Dixon looks at how the future will be Fast, Urban, Tribal, Universal, Radical and Ethical - a future of boom and bust and great economic change as the emerging markets grow up; a future of great advances in medicine and also greater threats from viral epidemics; a future of political shocks and greater conflicts; a future in which people will strive for more privacy and businesses will change the way they relate to their staff and their customers.

NIKOLA TESLA An Electrifying Genius Discover the compelling story of Nikola Tesla, a visionary inventor whose groundbreaking ideas and relentless pursuit of innovation forever changed the landscape of modern technology and electrical engineering. Nikola Tesla was a multifaceted figure, blending creativity, intelligence, and an unyielding spirit to create inventions that transcended the boundaries of his time. This book delves deep into Tesla's life, exploring his motivations, his groundbreaking works, and the legacy of his scientific and technological contributions. From his pioneering work...

Artificial intelligence is a growing field with many possibilities extending in many directions. Artificial intelligence encompasses many terms you may have heard and terms that we will be covering in this book like deep learning, neural networks, and machine learning. Sometimes we hear doubts out there that artificial intelligence will never be as good as humans are at navigating the choices and actions of other humans, but that is not always the case.

YouTube has revolutionized the viewing habits of millions of people around the world and looks likely to continue doing so. YouTube Famous presents case studies of 20 of the world's most successful YouTubers providing original content to inspire those who might want to set up a channel of their own - it's also a book which will be enjoyed by fans.

In this essential and timely book, behavioral scientists Sanders and Hume demonstrate the astonishing reach of our social networks, and why we need to reclaim their power to effect positive change in our professional and private lives. The rise of social media has sent our social instincts into overdrive, and the impact of our networks has never been greater. But what if we could reclaim the positive power that influences our decisions, to behave better and be happier?

Worin besteht das Geheimnis hinter dem märchenhaften Aufstieg des chinesischen Vorzeigeunternehmens Alibaba? Ist es Jack Ma, sein schillernder Gründer, oder etwa ein besonderer Algorithmus? Ming Zeng verrät uns: Es ist die Strategie des Smart Business, das auf maschinellem Lernen, Algorithmen und künstlicher Intelligenz beruht. Ming Zeng legt dar, wie Alibaba neue Technologien dazu verwendet, das Entscheidungsverhalten zu verbessern und konkrete Handlungsschritte daraus abzuleiten.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing at a runaway pace, transforming everything it touches in its path, so much so that it no longer belongs to a distant future but an immediate reality. We are seeing how all sectors become “smart” and how the leading companies already invest high figures in making this new technology their future. Not only the giants, but more and more companies are also taking the step and get into the car of this, which is already assumed, the "third industrial revolution."

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg – an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius – were never going to fit in at elite, polished Harvard. Yet that all changed when master-hacker Mark crashed the university’s entire computer system by creating a rateable database of female students.

Separating fiction from fact, award-winning author Daniel Alef, tells the true story of Zuckerberg's meteoric rise and his indelible mark on the evolution of American culture through social networking and now advertising. The curly-haired wunderkind rubs elbows with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, Donald Graham, and other prominent players in today's business, technological, and media world and is an emerging philanthropist.