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Dale Dougherty, creator of MAKE: magazine and the Maker Faire, provides a guided tour of the international phenomenon known as the Maker Movement, a social revolution that is changing what gets made, how it’s made, where it’s made, and who makes it. Free to Make is a call to join what Dougherty calls the “renaissance of making,” an invitation to see ourselves as creators and shapers of the world around us.

The AI Success Route embarks on a compelling journey through the cutting-edge world of artificial intelligence (AI), and it explores the keys to unlocking this technology’s full potential for your personal success. This book is your ultimate guide to navigating the complex landscape of AI, demystifying the technology that is all the rage today, and harnessing it to drive success in your personal and professional life.

Artificial Intelligence Unleashed is the ultimate guide for entrepreneurs ready to embrace the transformative power of AI. This comprehensive book demystifies artificial intelligence, breaking it down into actionable strategies that you can implement in your business—no technical expertise required. Whether you're a startup founder or a seasoned business owner, this book empowers you to harness AI for innovation, growth, and success.

Today's parents are navigating a new frontier in child-rearing: raising "digital natives" in a world where "screen time" is ever-present. It's a journey strewn with questions, doubts, and persistent pings. But fear not. Parenting Unplugged turns these challenges into opportunities for humor, wisdom, and a screen savvy family life.

This is a story about a family coming of age at the same time as smartphones and social media; a multiracial family coming into its own as windows into social injustice opened up before our very screens; and a multi-parent multi-professional family with children living differently depending on which house and which combination of family members happen to be home. While it is a story about a family, it is really the story of technological and global changes unfolding on our doorsteps.

An acclaimed investigative journalist explores ethical hacking and presents a listener-friendly, informative guide to everything there is to know about entering the field of cybersecurity.

Viral Parenting is a guide to raising responsible, safe, and communicative kids in the digital world. Mindy shares practical tools for having honest conversations with kids of all ages about privacy, bullying, respectfulness, and family time while emphasizing the importance of trust and open communication. These strategies are timeless - whether applied to texting, snapping, Facebooking, kiking, or whatever social media platforms await us in the future, this book is ultimately about teaching children about personal responsibility and safety.

Inicios de sesión inesperados que te alertan de intentos de robo de cuenta de las redes sociales de tus hijos; mayores de edad y desconocidos que envían solicitudes de amistad a través de Facebook a las cuentas de los miembros más jóvenes de tu familia; cargos en tus tarjetas de crédito por compras de bienes o servicios que no has consumido provenientes de un juego online llamado Clash Royale... ¿Sabes cómo actuar ante estas situaciones?

In this eagerly awaited new book from the author of the best-selling Nostalgia Nerd's Retro Tech, Peter Leigh takes a fun, informative and irreverent romp through the history of more than 40 pieces of personal tech, charting the successes, failures and oddities from over five decades of our obsession with gadgetry.

If you want to change your life during the coming metaverse bull run, then keep reading. When Facebook changed its name to Meta, everybody and their dog started talking about the metaverse and how it will be the next big thing. But how many people know what they are talking about? That is why we wrote this audiobook to help you become a profitable investor in the metaverse; cryptocurrency, NFTs, virtual lands, and blockchain gaming will be the assets of the future, and you have to master them all if you want to succeed.

Have you ever come across something online that looks a little bit too good to be true? It might be a competition you’ve won that you didn’t know you’d entered or a new cryptocurrency with a low buy-in price and promised high returns.

MSNBC anchor and media maven Greta Van Susteren presents the most practical, thorough, and accessible guide around to living well on social media. From answering basic questions like "What's the best site for you?" to "How to Tweet" and "What does it mean to 'tag' someone?" to addressing important moral and behavioral issues like how to protect your privacy, how to avoid being roasted online, and whether it's okay to get your news from Facebook, this is the essential handbook for anyone who wants to stay up to date with today's changing technology.

Technology insider Alice Marwick contends in this insightful book, “Web 2.0” only encouraged a preoccupation with status and attention. Her original research - which includes conversations. Marwick analyzes status-building techniques - such as self-branding, micro-celebrity, and life-streaming - to show that Web 2.0 did not provide a cultural revolution, but only furthered inequality and reinforced traditional social stratification, demarcated by race, class, and gender.

For too long, under the influence of corporate giants and tech enthusiasts, we’ve accepted the idea that change always means better. But rapidly developing technology isn’t neutral – it’s ambivalent, and capable of enormous harm. To improve our well-being, help future generations flourish and recover our shared humanity, we must become more critical, mindful users of technology, and more discerning of how it uses us.

Bullies are everywhere in the classroom, work, you can’t escape them. But if you want to know how to stop them then keep reading.... In Bullying, my book dives deep into the different types of bullying, and how to help a parent in each one. When your child comes home crying from school, and you feel powerless to do anything about it. As a parent that is such an empty feeling. Bullying can be devastating to a child of any age, what we need is a tool to empower them. It is also important to understand why the bully feels the need to intimidate another individual.

Welcome to the wonderful world of AI. AI Unveiled is meant to be a primer on AI by providing an overall introduction into AI and its associated technologies.

In this timely, entertaining, and inspiring audiobook, Jedediah Bila chronicles her chaotic, confusing, and all-consuming love-hate relationship with - her cell phone. Stepping back from the whirlwind of texting, social media, and an endless sea of apps, Bila questions how our relationships, character, and sanity have suffered from our deep dive into the digital abyss. Exploring the toll that tech addiction took on her life, Bila reveals her missteps and mistakes, including several upending, life-altering months swirling in an ex-boyfriend’s cell-phone-enabled double life.

Award-winning biographer Walter Isaacson is often asked who, of the people living today, would he consider to be in the same league as the innovators he’s profiled: Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, Steve Jobs. Isaacson’s answer? Jeff Bezos. The Amazon founder shares the traits that made Isaacson’s innovators irresistible subjects. These qualities include a passionate curiosity, fervent imagination and a child-like sense of wonder.

The greatest threat to privacy today is not the NSA, but good-old American companies. Internet giants, leading retailers, and other firms are voraciously gathering data with little oversight from anyone. In Las Vegas, no company knows the value of data better than Caesars Entertainment. Many thousands of enthusiastic clients pour through the ever-open doors of their casinos. The secret to the company’s success lies in their one unrivaled asset: they know their clients intimately by tracking the activities of the overwhelming majority of gamblers.

Nev Schulman is the host of the wildly popular TV series Catfish which investigates online relationships to determine whether they are based on truth or fiction (spoiler: it's almost always fiction).