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    The Technological Republic

    Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West

    by Alexander C. Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska ...
    Narrated by Nicholas W. Zamiska ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 50 min

    INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • AN NPR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “A cri de coeur that takes aim at the tech industry for abandoning its history of helping America and its allies.”—The Wall Street JournalFrom the Palantir co-founder, one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People of 2025, and his deputy, a critically-acclaimed and sweeping indictment of the West’s culture of complacency, arguing ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Your Data, Their Billions

    Unraveling and Simplifying Big Tech

    by Jane S. Hoffman ...
    Narrated by Natalie Duke ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 36 min

    **What if somebody knew everything about you?Somebody does. That somebody is "Big Tech."Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft know more about you than you do. And they make billions of dollars by cashing in on your private data.**Our personal data, which Big Tech companies get for free, is the engine that drives the unregulated, free-for-all world called the digital marketplace. These ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Keep Calm and Log On

    Your Handbook for Surviving the Digital Revolution

    by Gillian "Gus" Andrews ...
    Narrated by Tavia Gilbert ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 19 min

    Feeling overwhelmed by an avalanche of online content? Anxious about identity theft? Unsettled by the proliferation of fake news? Welcome to the digital revolution. Wait—wasn't the digital revolution supposed to make our lives better? It was going to be fun and put the world at our fingertips. What happened? Keep Calm and Log On is a survival handbook that will help you achieve online mindfulness ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Microsoft First Generation

    The Success Secrets of the Visionaries Who Launched a Technology Empire

    by Cheryl Tsang ...
    Narrated by Mary Woods ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 6 min

    This is a story with all the ingredients of a modern legend, representing nothing less than the proverbial American Dream—writ extra-large. It is a story of hard work, brilliance, and extraordinary commitment, featuring the story’s original cast members, who could not possibly have foreseen the unprecedented success that awaited them: the forging of a technology empire that would change the world ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Replay

    The History of Video Games

    by Tristan Donovan ...
    Narrated by Gary Furlong ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 15 min

    A riveting account of the birth and remarkable evolution of the most important development in entertainment since television, Replay is the ultimate history of video games. From its origins in the research labs of the 1940s to the groundbreaking success of the Wii, Replay sheds new light on gaming's past. Along the way it takes in the spectacular rise and fall of Atari, the crazed cottage industry ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

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    Bitwise

    A Life in Code

    by David Auerbach ...
    Narrated by David Marantz ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 55 min

    An exhilarating, elegant memoir and a significant polemic on how computers and algorithms shape our understanding of the world and of who we areBitwise is a wondrous ode to the computer languages and codes that captured technologist David Auerbach’s imagination. With a philosopher’s sense of inquiry, Auerbach recounts his childhood spent drawing ferns with the programming language Logo on the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Story of Computing, The

    by Dermot Turing ...
    Narrated by Tom Babbage ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 29 min

    Today computers shape every aspect of our lives. In our pockets, we carry mobile phones with computing power that was unimaginable just 50 years ago. Many industries are embracing the promises - and the risks - of artificial intelligence. The world is changing faster than ever, and computing is at the heart of technological development.Dermot Turing explores the history of this rapidly evolving ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Kindle Library Cleanup Made Easy

    Delete Books, Remove Samples, Organize Collections, Free Up Space, and Manage Your Kindle Account Step by Step

    by Clara Winslow Reed ...
    Narrated by Digital Voice Madelyn G ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 8 min

    This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Is your Kindle library cluttered with old books, unread samples, expired borrows, confusing downloads, and titles you no longer want?Kindle Library Cleanup Made Easy is a clear, beginner-friendly guide that shows you how to clean up your Kindle library step by step without feeling lost, overwhelmed, or afraid of deleting the wrong thing. Whether you ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Aum Golly 3

    Aivan hyviä tekoälyn runoja ihmisyydestä

    by Jukka Aalho ...
    Narrated by Jukka Aalho ...
    Series Audiobook 3 - Aum Golly

    Unabridged

    34 min

    Aum Golly 3 on runokirja, joka on syntynyt tekoälyn ja ihmisen yhteistyönä. Aum Golly -sarja tarkastelee luovuuden ja teknologian muuttuvia rajoja generatiivisen tekoälyn kehittyessä.Kahdeksassa tunnissa valmistunut Aum Golly 3 on tehty agenttipohjaisella työnkululla, jossa useat tekoälyjärjestelmät tekivät yhteistyötä kirjoittajina, kriitikkoina, editoreina, ideoijina ja kääntäjinä. Yhden ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    How AI Thinks

    How we built it, how it can help us, and how we can control it

    by Nigel Toon ...
    Narrated by Joe Jameson ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 47 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.Those who understand how AI thinks are about to win big.**We are used to thinking of computers as being a step up from calculators - very good at storing information, and maybe even at playing a logical game like chess. But up to now they haven't been able to think in ways that are intuitive, or respond to questions as a human might. All that has changed, dramatically, ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Cryptocurrency: Mining, Investing and Trading in Blockchain for Beginners.

    by Travis Goleman ...
    Narrated by Matt Montanez ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 37 min

    Lots of investment opportunities have come and gone. Now is the time for cryptocurrencies, so do not miss the boat.Thе block сhаin is an online dесеntrаliѕеd рubliс ledger of аll digitаl trаnѕасtiоnѕ thаt have taken рlасе. It iѕ digitаl currency's equivalent оf a high street bаnk'ѕ lеdgеr thаt records trаnѕасtiоnѕ bеtwееn twо раrtiеѕ.Juѕt аѕ our mоdеrn bаnking ѕуѕtеm couldn't function withоut thе ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Geek Sublime

    The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

    by Vikram Chandra ...
    Narrated by Neil Shah ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 45 min

    Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code?Exploring ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Windows 7: The Ultimate Guide To Learning How To Use Windows 7 Operating System On Your PC

    by Charlie Jeffs ...
    Narrated by Jesse Gross ...

    Unabridged

    17 min

    “Knowledge is a treasure, but practice is the key to it”~Lao TzuTo gain the fullest use of a computer, a person should make it a goal of learning all they can about their operating system. Windows 7 is a system that offers a potpourri of features that can enhance anyone’s experience. It features a solid foundation in which any computer system can grow and thrive.This book takes a no-nonsense ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Little Blue Dot

    How GPS Shaped the Modern World

    by Katherine Dunn ...
    Narrated by Laurel Lefkow ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 39 min

    Bloomsbury presents Little Blue Dot by Katherine Dunn, read by Laurel LefkowThe unexplored history of GPS, a military technology turned daily necessity that impacts all aspects of our lives.Gone are the days when we pulled off to the side of the road, twisted a map this way and that, and squinted in exasperation before saying, “We’re lost.” Now, a network of satellites that circles the earth ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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    Computers Made Easy

    by Jonathan Brook ...
    Narrated by Marcus Mulenga ...

    Unabridged

    11 min

    Computers Made Easy: The Beginner's Guide to Computers and Technology. Learn All the Basics of Building and Setting Up Computers for Your BusinessThese days, most things are run by computers so it’s essential that you know how to operate even the most basic ones. Don't worry too much if you lack advanced technical computer skills. A lot of that can be remedied now by just putting in a little bit ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The Man Who Knew Too Much

    Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer

    by David Leavitt ...
    Narrated by Richard Powers ...
    Series series The Great Discoveries Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 15 min

    A "skillful, literate" (New York Times Book Review) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computerTo solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Analogia

    The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control

    by George Dyson ...
    Narrated by Donald Corren ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 42 min

    Named one of WIRED**’s "The Best Pop Culture That Got Us Through 2020"**In Analogia**, technology historian George Dyson presents a startling look back at the analog age and life before the digital revolution—and an unsettling vision of what comes next.**In 1716, the philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz spent eight days taking the cure with Peter the Great at Bad Pyrmont... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    History of Engineering

    by Introbooks Team ...
    Narrated by Tracy Tupman ...

    Unabridged

    44 min

    The idea of engineering has been present since prehistoric times when humans started shaping important creations like lever, wheel and pulley. Every invention is reliable with the contemporary explanation of engineering manipulating basic principles of mechanics to develop useful tools and objects.The word engineering has been derived from the term engineer and dates back to around recently 1325 ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Hijacking Bitcoin

    The Hidden History of BTC

    by Roger Ver ...
    Narrated by Steve Patterson ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 38 min

    Bitcoin was promised to be a liberating technology, a free market alternative to state-controlled money. But that promise was broken after a small group of insiders took over the project and fundamentally changed Bitcoin's design.Few people know the true history of Bitcoin and its original design due to years of heavy censorship, social media engineering, and tight information controls online. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Being Digital

    by Nicholas Negroponte ...
    Narrated by Penn Jillette ...

    Abridged

    1 hour 12 min

    **NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Succinct and readable.... If you suffer from digital anxiety ... here is a book that lays it all out for you." --**NewsdayIn lively, mordantly witty prose, Negroponte decodes the mysteries--and debunks the hype--surrounding bandwidth, multimedia, virtual reality, and the Internet, and explains why such touted innovations as the fax and the CD-ROM are likely to go the way ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    8-Bit Apocalypse

    The Untold Story of Atari's Missile Command

    by Alex Rubens, Jeff Gerstmann ...
    Narrated by Ryan Burke ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    The first history of Atari’s Missile Command, and its unforeseen effects on its creators and the cultureBefore Call of Duty, before World of Warcraft, before even Super Mario Bros., the video game industry exploded in the late 1970s with the advent of the video arcade. Leading the charge was Atari Inc., the creator of, among others, the iconic game Missile Command. The first game to double as a ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Hacker Chronicles, The - Volume 1: Origins

    Ten Cases That Made Cybersecurity Necessary, 1971-1998

    by Ronan Blake ...
    Narrated by A Lancaster ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Hacker Chronicles

    Unabridged

    4 hours 42 min

    Between 1971 and 1998, the networks the modern world was being built on had no defences worth the name. This is the story of ten cases that changed that.In 1971, a blind eight-year-old in Boston discovered he could whistle into a telephone and place free long-distance calls. In 1986, an astronomer at Berkeley traced a 75-cent accounting discrepancy to a West German intelligence operation. In 1988, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Silicon Dreams - Von Röhren, Rechnern und Revolutionen

    by Alex Wettengl ...
    Narrated by Johannes ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 12 min

    Vom Klackern der Relais zum Flüstern der KI.Eine epische Reise durch die Geschichte der Computer – erzählt als Drama, nicht als Datenblatt.Dieses Buch ist keine trockene Technikgeschichte. Es ist eine Zeitreise zurück in dieKinderzimmer der 80er, in verrauchte Studios der 90er und in die Serverfarmen der Gegenwart.Eine Geschichte über Maschinen – und über die Menschen, die mit ihnen träumten ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    WLAN, Router & Internet zuhause verstehen ohne Technikstress

    Wie dein digitales Zuhause funktioniert – einfach und ohne Fachsprache erklärt

    by Ordystra System ...
    Narrated by Stefan Rank der Erzähler(AI) ...
    Series Audiobook 10 - Ordystra – Das Klarheits-System

    Unabridged

    5 hours 3 min

    Hast du dich schon oft gefragt, wie dein Internet zuhause eigentlich funktioniert? Technik kann oft frustrierend sein, besonders wenn man nur Bahnhof versteht und sich von Fachbegriffen erschlagen fühlt. Damit ist jetzt Schluss. Dieses Hörbuch ist dein entspannter Wegbegleiter, um dein Heimnetzwerk verstehen zu lernen, ganz ohne Technikstress.Wir fangen ganz vorne an: Was macht ein Router ... Read more

    $11.99 USD