Your Face Belongs to Us: The Secretive Startup Dismantling Your Privacy by Kashmir Hill
Category: Popular Science
‘The dystopian future portrayed in some science-fiction movies is already upon us. Kashmir Hill’s fascinating book brings home the scary implications of this new reality’ JOHN CARREYROU, author of Bad Blood When Kashmir Hill stumbled upon Clearview AI, a mysterious startup selling an app that claimed i ...Show more
The History of Our Universe in 21 Stars - (That You Can Spot in the Night Sky) by Giles Sparrow
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Previously published as A History of the Universe in 21 Stars. 'REVISED AND UPDATED___ 'A wonderful book about the science, history and mythology of 21 stars (and 3 impostors).' Dr David Whitehouse Look up on a clear evening, and you'll see thousands of stars shining in the night sky, each telling a ...Show more
White Holes: Inside the Horizon by Carlo Rovelli
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A mesmerizing trip to the strange new world of white holes, from Carlo Rovelli, the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics. Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. Let us slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and tumble - on and on - down thi ...Show more
Dark Matter: The New Science of the Microbiome by James Kinross
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A groundbreaking tour through the past, present and future of human ecology, from a world expert on the microbiome The microbiome comprises the vast genetic universe of bacteria, yeasts, viruses and parasites that live within us. It influences every aspect of our health, even the way we think and feel, ...Show more
The Coming Wave: The instant Sunday Times bestseller from the ultimate AI insider by Mustafa Suleyman
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Cofounder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind sounds the alarm on the unprecedented risks to global order posed by a wave of fast-developing technologies like artificial intelligence and genetic engineeringA stark and urgent warning on the unprecedented risks that a wave of fast-developing technologie ...Show more
A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters by Andrew H. Knoll
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Harvard's acclaimed geologist "charts Earth's history in accessible style" (AP) "A sublime chronicle of our planet." -Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of i ...Show more
Quantum Supremacy: How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of Science - and Address Humanity's Biggest Challenges by Michio Kaku
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"The runaway success of the microchip processor may be nearing its end, with profound implications for our economy, society and way of life, even leaving Silicon Valley as a new Rust Belt, its technology obsolete. Step forward the quantum computer, which harnesses the power and complexity of the atomic ...Show more
Philosophy and Life: Exploring the Great Questions of How to Live by A. C. Grayling
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From the eminent philosopher, an answer to the big question- how should I live my life? How should I live my life? What values shall I live by? What sort of person should I be? What shall I aim for? In this summation of a lifetime thinking and writing about these great questions, A. C. Grayling explores ...Show more
The Genesis Machine - Our Quest to Rewrite Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology by Amy Webb; Andrew Hessel
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A breakthrough investigation of synthetic biology: the promising and controversial technology platform that combines biology and artificial intelligence and has the potential to program biological systems like we program computers. Synthetic biology is the technique that enables us not just to read and ...Show more
The Digital Republic - Taking Back Control of Technology by Jamie Susskind
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A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK TO READ_______________'One of the foremost thinkers on the transformative impact of the technology revolution' - TONY BLAIR'Original and hopeful . . . a unique guide to the great challenges of the digital age' - ANNE APPLEBAUM'Lucid and persuasive' - NIALL FERGUSON_______________T ...Show more
Around the World in 80 Games - A Mathematician Unlocks the Secrets of the Greatest Games by Marcus du Sautoy
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Why do some games seem to be universal while others have a particular connection to the culture of the people playing them? Around the World in 80 Games is about the mathematics of chance, game theory, gamification, gaming strategies and computer games. Traversing the globe, Marcus du Sautoy looks at t ...Show more
Ten Trips: The Reality of Psychedelics by Andrew Mitchell; Andy Mitchell
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In Ten Trips neuropsychologist Andy Mitchell takes ten different psychedelic drugs in ten different settings, puncturing the hype while providing the fullest picture yet of their limitlessly fascinating possibilities.Once demonised and still largely illegal, psychedelic drugs are now officially a 'break ...Show more