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Let’s Get Real—Running Your Own Business Isn’t Always Pretty. Some days you’re a marketing genius. Other days, you’re accountant, customer service, and tech support—before lunch. Sound familiar? The truth: It’s easy to feel stretched thin when your to-do list grows faster than you can cross things off—and even harder to juggle it all without losing that personal magic your business is built on. Good news: You don’t need a PhD in productivity or another “guru” pep talk. What you need are real-world, proven prompts and tools that plug right into your business routine—...

In How Progress Ends, Carl Benedikt Frey challenges the conventional belief that economic and technological progress is inevitable. For most of human history, stagnation was the norm, and even today progress and prosperity in the world's largest, most advanced economies—the United States and China—have fallen short of expectations. To appreciate why we cannot depend on any AI-fueled great leap forward, Frey offers a remarkable and fascinating journey across the globe, spanning the past 1,000 years, to explain why some societies flourish and others fail in the wake of rapid technological change

We are surrounded by emoji. They appear in politics, movies, drug deals, our sex lives, and more. But emoji's impact has never been explored in full. In this rollicking tech and pop culture history, Keith Houston follows emoji from its birth in 1990s Japan, traces its Western explosion in the 2000s, and considers emoji's ever-expanding lexicon. Named for the world's most popular pictogram, Face with Tears of Joy tells the whole story of emoji for the first time.

“Innovating Tomorrow” explores the dynamic role of technology in shaping the future of business and society. This book offers listeners a clear roadmap for understanding and leveraging emerging technologies to stay ahead in a rapidly evolving world. Through insightful analysis and real-world examples, the author demonstrates how innovation driven by technology can unlock new opportunities and solve complex challenges. Listeners will learn practical strategies to integrate cutting-edge tools into their personal and professional lives.

As Wall Street swooned and boomed through the last decade, our livelihoods have—now more than ever—come to rely upon the good sense and risk appetites of a few standout investors. And amidst the BlackRocks, Vanguards, and Berkshire Hathaways stands arguably the most iconoclastic of them all: SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son. In this “meticulously researched, balance, thoroughly readable” (Booklist, starred review) biography, we go behind the scenes of the world’s most monied halls of power in New York, Tokyo, Silicon Valley, Saudi Arabia, and beyond.

Software was supposed to radically improve society. Outdated mechanical systems would be easily replaced; social media platforms like Facebook would bring people together; and generative AI would solve the world’s greatest ills. Yet in practice, few of the systems we looked to with such high hopes have lived up to their fundamental mandate. In fact, in too many cases they've made things worse. How did we get to this point? In Fatal Abstraction, Darryl Campbell explains that the problem is "managerial software".

How will artificial intelligence affect crime, war, justice, jobs, society, and our very sense of being human? The rise of AI has the potential to transform our future more than any other technology - and there's nobody better qualified or situated to explore that future than Max Tegmark, an MIT professor who's helped mainstream research on how to keep AI beneficial.

Minimalism is the art of knowing how much is just enough. Digital minimalism applies this idea to our personal technology. It's the key to living a focused life in an increasingly noisy world. In this timely and enlightening book, the best-selling author of Deep Work introduces a philosophy for technology use that has already improved countless lives.

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens. What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail?

Our world today - from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon - has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny switches have enabled ever-more startling capabilities. Their incredible proliferation has altered the course of human history as dramatically as any political or social revolution. At the heart of it all has been one quiet Californian: Gordon Moore.

ChatGPT AI Made Simple: Clear Explanations to Learn Effortlessly 3-Day Learning Strategy: forget complex and confusing pages, each chapter guides you through a step-by-step path that transforms theory into practical skills: Theory → Intuitive Illustrations → Practical Examples. ChatGPT Ideas Explosion for Beginners and Seniors shows you exactly how to transform everyday tasks into fast wins, spark fresh creativity, and reclaim precious time. No prior knowledge is required to clearly understand the key concepts. This book builds real problem-solving skills from the ground up across ...

Part of the "Protecting Young Minds: The Cyberbullying Awareness Series" In "Parental Strategies to Combat the Cyberbully Epidemic," cybersecurity expert and mother of four Sabrina Carol provides essential guidance for parents navigating the complex landscape of digital harassment and online safety. This comprehensive guide is from 26 years of professional experience and personal parenting wisdom. This guide equips families with the practical tools to protect children from cyberbullying while fostering their development as responsible digital citizens. You'll discover how to : Identify the ...

He saw patterns in chaos and logic in life itself. Decades ahead of his peers, Alan Turing built the mental machinery that birthed modern computing, cracked the seemingly uncrackable Enigma, and sketched the first outline of a thinking machine. This is a sharp, humane account of that mind—how it worked, what it achieved, and how the country he saved repaid him with cruelty rather than gratitude. Clear-eyed and urgent, JD Arden strips away myth without stripping away wonder. Technical ideas land with clarity; human costs land with a sting. You get the mechanics of codebreaking, the seeds ...

More than just a brand name, Atari was a cultural phenomenon that defined the dawn of the video game age for a generation. The story of its meteoric rise and the spectacular 1983 crash that followed is the stuff of Silicon Valley legend. But the history of Atari did not end with a bulldozer burying unsold cartridges in a desert landfill; that is where the second, more complex half of its story begins. This meticulously researched book chronicles the complete history, from the freewheeling, visionary days of founder Nolan Bushnell and the creation of Pong to the corporate blunders that led ...

An eye-opening examination into a chilling paradox: our hunger for security—from border walls to video doorbells—is making us less safe and weakening democracies worldwide, for fans of Naomi Klein and Shoshana Zuboff.

Unlock the future of customer service with AI. Building a Smart Customer Service System with AI: From Chatbots to Personalized Support is a comprehensive guide that shows businesses how to leverage artificial intelligence to transform their customer support operations.

★Three PLCs in a single book★ ⚠ UPDATED EDITION - JULY 2022 ⚠ The only book has RS Logix 500, Simatic manager step7, and GX Works3 programming software.This book covers all aspects of PLC programming including the use of instruction, PLC programming for HMI, VFD, and troubleshooting. ◆PLC- This book covers the series of PLCs that manufacturers offer with their suitable programming software. ◆Communication- This book has different communication protocols normally used in automation. The communication protocols are required to establish a communication between PLC and a PC. ◆...

Aumenta tu productividad, ahorra tiempo y toma decisiones más inteligentes en el día a día, ¡incluso si nunca antes has trabajado con IA! ¿Sientes curiosidad por la inteligencia artificial (IA), pero no sabes por dónde empezar? ¿Te abruma la jerga compleja y te preocupa no tener los conocimientos técnicos necesarios para entender la IA? ¿Te preguntas si la IA podría simplificar tus rutinas diarias?

There has been a lot of ink devoted to discussions of how robots will replace us and take our jobs. But MIT Media Lab researcher and technology policy expert Kate Darling argues just the opposite, and that treating robots with a bit of humanity, more like the way we treat animals, will actually serve us better.

On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an indelible image in the nation's collective memory. In Truth, Lies, and O-Rings, McDonald, a skilled engineer and executive, relives the tragedy from where he stood at Launch Control Center.