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Our fascination with AI stems from the perceived uniqueness of human intelligence. We believe it's what differentiates us. Fears of AI not only concern how it invades our digital lives, but also the implied threat of an intelligence that displaces us from our position at the centre of the world. Neil D. Lawrence's visionary book shows why these fears may be misplaced. By contrasting our own intelligence with the capabilities of machine intelligence through history, The Atomic Human reveals the technical origins, capabilities and limitations of AI systems, and how they should be wielded.

In our "wireless" world it is easy to take the importance of the undersea cable systems for granted, but the stakes of their successful operation are huge, as they are responsible for carrying almost all transoceanic Internet traffic. In The Undersea Network, Nicole Starosielski follows these cables from the ocean depths to their landing zones on the sandy beaches of the South Pacific, bringing them to the surface of media scholarship and making visible the materiality of the wired network.

’A fascinating hybrid. Part freewheeling history of the rise of the modern autonomous vehicle, part intimate memoir from an insider who was on the front lines for much of that history, Autonomy will more than bring readers up to speed on one of today’s most closely watched technologies’...

This short, powerful book provides practical advice on how to protect yourself in the information age. Living today means most of us must contend with things like workplace surveillance, cyberstalking, ransomware attacks, and facial recognition. But it's not too late to protect our privacy...

You know them. You hate them. Make pop-up ads a thing of the past. Listen to this great advice for blasting away those nasty pop-up ads.

Everyone's got a blog: your kid, your neighbor, Presidential candidates, and superstar actors. If you've wanted to find out what all the hoopla is about, and jump feet first into the world of blogging, look no further: everything you need is right here.

In this new book, author and Internet expert Adam Engst shows you, in 10 quick steps, the most effective way to stop spam, how to protect your e-mail address from a deluge of spam, how to avoid areas of the Internet that spammers use to find you, what to do for filtering, how to use yourISP's available spam tools, and more.