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Thirteen
- The Apollo Flight that Failed
- By: Henry S. F. Cooper Jr.
- Narrated by: Christopher David
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
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On the evening of April 13, 1970, the three astronauts aboard Apollo 13 were just hours from the third lunar landing in history. But as they soared through space, 200,000 miles from Earth, an explosion badly damaged their spacecraft. Thirteen is the shocking and miraculous true story of how the astronauts and ground crew guided Apollo 13 back to Earth. Expanding on dispatches written for The New Yorker, Henry S. F. Cooper Jr. brings listeners unparalleled detail on the moment-by-moment developments of one of NASA’s most dramatic missions.
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Thirteen
- The Apollo Flight that Failed
- Narrated by: Christopher David
- Length: 5 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 15-04-21
- Language: English
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This Is For Everyone
- Die unvollendete Geschichte des World Wide Web
- By: Tim Berners-Lee, Karsten Petersen – Übersetzer
- Narrated by: Wolfgang Wagner
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Eine revolutionäre Erfindung – und ihre Zukunft. Tim Berners-Lee ist der womöglich einflussreichste Erfinder der modernen Welt. Geboren im selben Jahr wie Bill Gates und Steve Jobs, teilte er seine Erfindung, das World Wide Web, ohne sie kommerziell zu verwerten. Auch deshalb konnte sich diese Technologie so schnell über den gesamten Globus verbreiten. Mit ihr wurde die Menschheit zur ersten digitalen Spezies: Hier, im Web, vernetzen wir uns, hier leben, arbeiten, streiten und träumen wir.
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This Is For Everyone
- Die unvollendete Geschichte des World Wide Web
- Narrated by: Wolfgang Wagner
- Length: 11 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 23-09-25
- Language: German
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Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Space
- By: Rick Houston
- Narrated by: James Killavey
- Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
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Humanity's first reusable spacecraft and the most complex machine ever built, NASA's space shuttle debuted with great promise and as a dependable source of wonder and national pride. But with the Challenger catastrophe in 1986, the whole space shuttle program came into question, as did NASA itself, so long an institution that was seemingly above reproach. Wheels Stop tells the stirring story of how, after the Challenger disaster, the space shuttle not only recovered but went on to perform its greatest missions.
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Did not finish due to Awful Narrator
- By Jonathan on 10-10-16
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Wheels Stop: The Tragedies and Triumphs of the Space Shuttle Program, 1986-2011
- Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Space
- Narrated by: James Killavey
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 17 hrs and 51 mins
- Release date: 05-01-16
- Language: English
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Worm
- The First Digital World War
- By: Mark Bowden
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance62
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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. When Conficker was unleashed in November 2008, cybersecurity experts did not know what to make of it. Exploiting security flaws in Microsoft Windows, it grew at an astonishingly rapid rate, infecting millions of computers around the world within weeks.
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An exiting account of a new kind of apocalypse!
- By Jim Vaughan on 25-11-12
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Worm
- The First Digital World War
- Narrated by: Christopher Lane
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Release date: 11-10-11
- Language: English
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The Idea Machine
- How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future
- By: Joel J. Miller
- Narrated by: Joel J. Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
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Books preserve ideas, yes, but they also provoke new ones— they are true tools for thinking. In The Idea Machine, Joel J. Miller shows that books are one of the most important but overlooked factors in the making of our contemporary world.
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The Idea Machine
- How Books Built Our World and Shape Our Future
- Narrated by: Joel J. Miller
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-12-25
- Language: English
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Geniuses at War
- Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
- By: David A. Price
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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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. Winner, Institute of Electrical and...
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Geniuses at War
- Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 22-06-21
- Language: English
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Footprints in the Dust
- The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975
- By: Richard F. Gordon Jr, Colin Burgess
- Narrated by: Jerry Longe
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Unabridged
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The flight of Apollo 11 was a triumph of human endeavor, persistence, and technology, one of the greatest achievements in human history. This book begins with the mission that sent Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin to the moon, then follows American spaceflight through the harrowing rescue of Apollo 13 before moving on to the successful joint Apollo-Soyuz mission in 1975.
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Requires a broader interest than just the landings
- By Nico on 25-06-15
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Footprints in the Dust
- The Epic Voyages of Apollo, 1969-1975
- Narrated by: Jerry Longe
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 17 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 21-11-14
- Language: English
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Fallen Astronauts
- Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon
- By: Colin Burgess, Kate Doolan
- Narrated by: Mark Sando
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called The Fallen Astronaut, along with a plaque bearing a list of names. By telling the stories of those sixteen astronauts and cosmonauts who died in the quest to reach the moon between 1962 and 1972, this book enriches the saga of humankind's greatest scientific undertaking, Project Apollo, and conveys the human cost of the space race.
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What a great insight
- By Brian Russell on 16-10-21
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Fallen Astronauts
- Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon
- Narrated by: Mark Sando
- Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight
- Length: 15 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 28-07-17
- Language: English
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The System
- Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us
- By: James Ball
- Narrated by: James Ball
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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The internet is a network of physical cables and connections, a web of wires enmeshing the world, linking huge data centres to one another and eventually to us. All are owned by someone, financed by someone, regulated by someone. We refer to the internet as abstract from reality. By doing so, we obscure where the real power lies. In this powerful and necessary book, James Ball sets out on a global journey into the inner workings of the system.
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The Problem with The System
- By Rob Sedgwick on 01-11-20
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The System
- Who Owns the Internet, and How It Owns Us
- Narrated by: James Ball
- Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 20-08-20
- Language: English
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Open
- How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing
- By: Rod Canion
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
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Open provides valuable lessons in leadership in times of crisis, management decision-making under the pressure of extraordinary growth, and the power of a unique, pervasive culture. Open tells the incredible story of Compaq’s meteoric rise from humble beginnings to become the PC industry leader in just over a decade. Along the way, Compaq helped change the face of computing while establishing the foundation for today’s world of tablets and smart phones.
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Made me reassess the PC revolution
- By Antibaddy on 21-02-23
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Open
- How Compaq Ended IBM's PC Domination and Helped Invent Modern Computing
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 6 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 15-10-13
- Language: English
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Alan Turing
- The Enigma Man
- By: Nigel Cawthorne
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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According to Winston Churchill, Alan Turing made the single biggest contribution to the Allied victory over Nazi Germany with his code-breaking machine. The world is also indebted to Turing's genius for the modern computer. It was clear that Turing had a remarkable mind from an early age. He taught himself to read in just three weeks. At his first school, the headmistress said, "I have had clever and hardworking boys, but Alan has genius."
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Alan Turing
- The Enigma Man
- Narrated by: Jot Davies
- Length: 3 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 29-12-15
- Language: English
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Data Empire
- How information shaped human history
- By: Roopika Risam
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Unabridged
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Brought to you by Penguin. From clay tablets to the algorithmic state, this groundbreaking 11,000 year history argues that information has always been the seed of power. Perfect for readers of Nexus and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Long before writing existed, at the dawn of civilisation...
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Data Empire
- How information shaped human history
- Length: Not Yet Known
- Release date: 09-07-26
- Language: English
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Androids
- The Team That Built the Android Operating System
- By: Chet Haase
- Narrated by: Chet Haase
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
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In 2004, Android was two people who wanted to build camera software, but couldn't get investors interested. Today, Android is a large team at Google, delivering an operating system (including camera software) to over 3 billion devices worldwide. This is the inside story, told by the people who made it happen. Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System is a firsthand chronological account of how the startup began, how the team came together, and how they all built an operating system from the kernel level to its applications, and everything in between.
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Footnotes breaks the flow
- By Anton Johansson on 06-09-22
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Androids
- The Team That Built the Android Operating System
- Narrated by: Chet Haase
- Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 26-07-22
- Language: English
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The Right Kind of Crazy
- A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
- By: Adam Steltzner, William Patrick
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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From Adam Steltzner, who led the Entry, Descent, and Landing team in landing the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars, comes a profound book about breakthrough innovation in the face of the impossible The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is home to some of history’s most jaw-dropping feats of...
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A true feast for curious minds!
- By T. Miklas on 26-05-20
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The Right Kind of Crazy
- A True Story of Teamwork, Leadership, and High-Stakes Innovation
- Narrated by: Christopher Grove
- Length: 7 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 12-01-16
- Language: English
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The Apple II Age
- How the Computer Became Personal
- By: Laine Nooney
- Narrated by: Krystal Hammond
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Skip the iPhone, the iPod, and the Macintosh. If you want to understand how Apple Inc. became an industry behemoth, look no further than the 1977 Apple II. The Apple II was a versatile piece of hardware, but its most compelling story isn't found in the feat of its engineering, the personalities of Apple's founders, or the way it set the stage for the company's multibillion-dollar future. Instead, historian Laine Nooney shows, what made the Apple II iconic was its software.
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The Apple II Age
- How the Computer Became Personal
- Narrated by: Krystal Hammond
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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IBM
- The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)
- By: James W. Cortada
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
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For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue”—an icon. And yet over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success. The company almost went out of business in the early 1990s, then came back strong with new business strategies and an emphasis on artificial intelligence. In this authoritative history, James Cortada tells the story of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.
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More a history of business than computing
- By Amazon Customer on 29-06-24
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IBM
- The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (History of Computing)
- Narrated by: Brian Conover
- Length: 26 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 25-06-24
- Language: English
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Computing: A Concise History
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- By: Paul E. Ceruzzi
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
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The history of computing could be told as the story of hardware and software or the story of the Internet or the story of "smart" handheld devices, with subplots involving IBM, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, and Twitter. In this concise and accessible account of the invention and development of digital technology, computer historian Paul Ceruzzi offers a broader and more useful perspective. He identifies four major threads that run throughout all of computing's technological development.
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Delivers what it promises
- By Amazon Customer on 20-07-18
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Computing: A Concise History
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Narrated by: Tim Andres Pabon
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
- Release date: 30-10-15
- Language: English
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Machine Learning
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- By: Ethem Alpaydi
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall103
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Performance85
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In this audiobook, machine learning expert Ethem Alpaydin offers a concise overview of the subject for the general listener, describing its evolution, explaining important learning algorithms, and presenting example applications. Alpaydin offers an account of how digital technology advanced from number-crunching mainframes to mobile devices, putting today's machine learning boom in context.
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Good technical overview, but shallow on ethics
- By Anonymous on 09-02-17
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Machine Learning
- The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series
- Narrated by: Steven Menasche
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Length: 4 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 26-09-16
- Language: English
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The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived
- Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age
- By: Ralph Watson McElvenny, Marc Wortman
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
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“A compelling new biography… [The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived] spins the Watsons into near-Shakespearean figures, as if ‘Succession’ were set in the era of ‘Mad Men’.” ―The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice The enduring story of Thomas Watson Jr.—a figure...
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Fascinating
- By Mr. S. Hindmarsh on 12-01-25
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The Greatest Capitalist Who Ever Lived
- Tom Watson Jr. and the Epic Story of How IBM Created the Digital Age
- Length: 17 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 24-10-23
- Language: English
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Where Is My Flying Car?
- By: J. Storrs Hall
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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The science fiction of the 1960s promised us a future remade by technological innovation: We’d vacation in geodesic domes on Mars, have meaningful conversations with computers, and drop our children off at school in flying cars. Fast-forward 60 years and we’re still stuck in traffic in gas-guzzling sedans and boarding the same types of planes we flew in over half a century ago. What happened to the future we were promised? In Where Is My Flying Car?, J. Storrs Hall sets out to answer this deceptively simple question.
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Where Is My Flying Car?
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 02-12-21
- Language: English
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