Computer Wars

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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 20-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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    • The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
    • By: Peter Westwick
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....

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    • Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
    • By: Cliff Stoll
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 31-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 291 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 02-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • Alan Turing Decoded
    • By: Dermot Turing
    • Narrated by: Chris Courtenay
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 08-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Alan Turing was an extraordinary man who crammed into a life of only 42 years the careers of mathematician, codebreaker, computer scientist and biologist....

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    • Hacks That Shocked the Business World
    • By: Charles Arthur
    • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 09-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • Cyber Wars gives you the dramatic inside stories of some of the world's biggest cyber attacks. These are the game-changing hacks that make organisations around the world tremble and leaders stop and consider just how safe they really are....

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    • By: Huib Modderkolk
    • Narrated by: Omar Baroud
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • Summer 2017: computer screens go blank in 150 countries. The NHS is so affected that hospitals can only take in patients for A&E. Ambulances are grounded. Computer screens turn on spontaneously and warnings appear. Employees who desperately pull the plugs are too late....

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    • How to Stay Safe in a Dangerous World
    • By: Chris Ryan
    • Narrated by: Michael Fenner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 19-10-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • How to keep you and yours safe from the perils of the modern world....

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    • Pioneers, Killing Machines, Artificial Intelligence, and the Battle for the Future
    • By: Seth J. Frantzman
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
    • Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Drones are transforming warfare through the use of artificial intelligence, drone swarms, and surveillance - leading to competition between the US, China, Israel, and Iran....

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    • The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War
    • By: Paul Kennedy
    • Narrated by: Stephen Hoye
    • Length: 16 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 13-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Paul Kennedy, award-winning author of The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers and one of today’s most renowned historians, now provides a new and unique look at how World War II was won....

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    • The Key to Digital Security, How It Works, and Why It Matters
    • By: Keith Martin
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 19-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Despite its reputation as a language only of spies and hackers, cryptography plays a critical role in our everyday lives. Though often invisible, it underpins the security of our mobile phone calls, credit card payments, web searches, internet messaging, and cryptocurrencies....

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    • The First Digital World War
    • By: Mark Bowden
    • Narrated by: Christopher Lane
    • Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • Worm: The First Digital World War tells the story of the Conficker worm, a potentially devastating piece of malware that has baffled experts and infected more than twelve million computers worldwide....

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    • The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
    • By: Claire L. Evans
    • Narrated by: Claire L. Evans
    • Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • The history of technology you probably know is one of men and machines, garages and riches, alpha nerds and brogrammers. But the little-known fact is that female visionaries have always been at the vanguard of technology and innovation - they've just been erased from the story. Until now....

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    • A Beginner's Guide
    • By: Randy Charles Epping
    • Narrated by: George Newbern
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 21-01-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • As the global economic landscape shifts at an increasing rate, it's more important than ever that citizens understand the building blocks of the new world economy. In this lively guide, Randy Charles Epping cuts through the jargon to explain the fundamentals....

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    • The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
    • By: Sharon Weinberger
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly 60 years....

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    • Online Culture Wars from 4Chan and Tumblr to Trump and the Alt-Right
    • By: Angela Nagle
    • Narrated by: Mary Sarah
    • Length: 4 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 156 ratings
    • Recent years have seen a revival of the heated culture wars of the 1990s, but this time its battleground is the Internet....

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    • Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
    • By: David A. Price
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 22-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team whose feats of innovation and engineering created the world’s first digital electronic computer - decrypting the Nazis’ toughest code, helping bring an end to WWII, and ushering in the information age....

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    • The Untold Story of the Railroad War that Made the West
    • By: John Sedgwick
    • Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • It is difficult to imagine now, but for all its gorgeous scenery, the American West might have been barren tundra as far as most Americans knew well into the 19th century....

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    • Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War
    • By: Ronald K. Fierstein
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 24 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 17-02-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • This riveting biography from the American Bar Association visits the spectacular life of Edwin Land, breakthrough inventor....

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