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This guide grows with you, offering a practical roadmap from idea to execution. With ChatGPT by your side, creating your business plan becomes a breeze, paving a clear path to success.

Discover how effortless it can be to safeguard your privacy online! It’s never too late to take control of your safety! This book is specifically designed for seniors like you, making online security easy and accessible at any age. We break everything down into simple, everyday language with step-by-step instructions. Protecting your personal information is one of the most important things you can do—at any stage of life and with no technical expertise required!

As organizations shift from monolithic applications to smaller, self-contained microservices, distributed systems have become more fine-grained. But developing these new systems brings its own host of problems. This expanded second edition takes a holistic view of topics that you need to consider when building, managing, and scaling microservices architectures. Through clear examples and practical advice, author Sam Newman gives everyone from architects and developers to testers and IT operators a firm grounding in the concepts.

Stories brought us together. Books spread our ideas – and our mythologies. The internet promised infinite knowledge. The algorithm learned our secrets – and then turned us against each other. What will AI do? NEXUS is the thrilling account of how we arrived at this moment, and the urgent choices we must now make to survive – and to thrive.

This is your ultimate companion on the journey to mastering Java. If you are stepping into the world of programming for the first time or are an experienced developer looking to sharpen your skills, this book offers a structured and comprehensive guide to becoming a proficient Java programmer. In this audiobook, you'll find clear explanations of Java concepts, supplemented with practical examples that bring the theory to life. Each chapter is crafted to build your knowledge progressively, ensuring you understand the foundational principles before moving on to more advanced topics.

Do you need help navigating the rapidly evolving world of AI? This guide is designed to help you unlock the game-changing potential of artificial intelligence, no matter your starting point, with hands-on and interactive learning techniques. You're not alone if you're curious about AI but feel overwhelmed by the flood of information and lost in technical jargon, wondering how AI could impact your life or career. Many beginners face the same challenges. In fact, recent surveys show that over 60% of those interested in AI feel intimidated by its complexity.

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 Jose, for years it was known primarily in the then-niche world of computer gaming. In fact, the company’s leather-jacketed leader, Jensen Huang, is the longest-serving CEO in an industry marked by near constant turmoil and failure.

Rugby megastars James Haskell, Mike Tindall and Alex Payne get together to discuss the highs and lows of their podcast, friendship and rugby. In one, no-holds-barred book, they will go behind the scenes of the hugely successful podcast The Good, The Bad and The Rugby to pull back the curtain on some of their most outrageous antics on tour – the ups, the downs and the sideways – and leave no story untold. All will be unleashed.

Have you ever felt left behind by the rapid changes in technology? Tired of relying on others to solve your device dilemmas? Whether for yourself or a loved one, mastering the iPhone 15 is easier than you think! This simple guide is tailored specifically for seniors, offering clear, easy-to-follow instructions with a touch of humor.

We are about to cross a critical threshold in the history of our species. Everything is about to change. Soon we will live surrounded by AIs. They will carry out complex tasks-operating businesses, producing unlimited digital content, running core government services and maintaining infrastructure. This will be a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy. It represents nothing less than a step change in human capability. We are not prepared.

Sunday Times best-selling author of A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson, teams up with The Science Museum to celebrate the ideas and inventions of the incurably curious.

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 the authorities back him up? Cliff Stoll's dramatic firsthand account is "a computer-age detective story, instantly fascinating [and] astonishingly gripping" - Smithsonian.

Cutting through the noise of AI evangelists and AI doom-mongers, Wharton professor Ethan Mollick has become one of the most prominent and provocative explainers of AI, focusing on the practical aspects of how these new tools for thought can transform our world. In Co-Intelligence, he urges us to engage with AI as co-worker, co-teacher and coach.

From finding a spouse to finding a parking spot, from organizing one's inbox to understanding the workings of human memory, Algorithms to Live By transforms the wisdom of computer science into strategies for human living.

Despite the increase of high-profile hacks, record-breaking data leaks, and ransomware attacks, many organizations don't have the budget for an information security (InfoSec) program. If you're forced to protect yourself by improvising on the job, this pragmatic guide provides a security-101 handbook with steps, tools, processes, and ideas to help you drive maximum-security improvement at little or no cost.

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 to the last Apollo mission, and beyond. He endured the disastrous first years when rockets blew up and the United States seemed to fall further behind the Soviet Union in the space race.

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.

Step into the future with The Art of Prompt Engineering: Mastering Intelligent Conversations with ChatGPT for Breakthrough Results! Jordan Ashwood guides you through the art of crafting effective, context-aware prompts that turn ChatGPT into a responsive and insightful conversational partner.

This is what our future looks like: in the next decade, AI will be able to convince us that it’s human. During the 2030s, it will become ‘superintelligent’, vastly outstripping our capabilities by almost every measure. By 2045, it will be possible to connect our brains with these AIs using invisibly small nanotechnologies. Our minds and theirs will merge, expanding our consciousness more profoundly than we can fully comprehend, unlocking possibilities we can barely imagine. This is the singularity.

In Fifty Things That Made the Modern Economy, the revolutionary, acclaimed book, radio series and podcast, best-selling economist Tim Harford introduced us to a selection of 50 radical inventions that changed the world. Along the way he entertained us with a myriad of great stories and revealed some of the most surprising landmarks in our history.