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1) An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

Author

Frenkel, Sheera

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

2021

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INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER// WINNER OF THE SABEW BEST IN BUSINESS AWARD A Book of the Year: Fortune, Foreign Affairs, The Times (London), Cosmopolitan, TechCrunch, WIRED "The ultimate takedown." –New York Times Book Review Award-winning New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang unveil the tech story of our times in a riveting, behind-the-scenes exposé that offers the definitive account of Facebook's fall from grace. Once...

2) Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

Author

Schreier, Jason

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

2017

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"The stories in this book make for a fascinating and remarkably complete pantheon of just about every common despair and every joy related to game development." — Rami Ismail, cofounder of Vlambeer and developer of Nuclear Throne

Developing video games—hero's journey or fool's errand? The creative and technical logistics that go into building today's hottest games can

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3) Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

Author

Wiener, Anna

Publisher

Macmillan Audio

Pub. Date

2020

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF 2020.
Named one of the Best Books of 2020 by The Washington Post, The Atlantic, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, ELLE, Esquire, Parade, Teen Vogue, The Boston Globe, Forbes, The Times (UK), Fortune, Chicago Tribune, Glamour, The A.V. Club, Vox, Jezebel, Town & Country, OneZero, Apartment

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4) Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door

Author

Krebs, Brian

Publisher

Sourcebooks

Pub. Date

2014

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A New York Times bestseller and winner of a 2015 Prose Award!

There is a threat lurking online. A secret war with the power to destroy your finances, steal your personal data, and endanger your life.

In Spam Nation, investigative journalist and cybersecurity expert Brian Krebs unmasks the criminal masterminds driving some of the biggest spam and hacker operations targeting Americans and their bank accounts.

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5) The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology

Author

Powell, Juliette

Publisher

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Pub. Date

2023

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The misuse of AI has led to wrongful arrests, denial of medical care, even genocide-this book offers 7 powerful principles that business can use now to end the harm. AI holds incredible promise to improve virtually every aspect of our lives, but we can't ignore its risks, mishaps and misuses. Juliette Powell and Art Kleiner offer seven principles for ensuring that machine learning supports human flourishing. They draw on Powell's research at Columbia...

6) The Circle

Publisher

Lionsgate

Pub. Date

[2017]

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When Mae is hired to work for the world's largest and most powerful tech and social media company, she sees it as an opportunity. As she rises through the ranks, she is encouraged by the company's founder, Eamon Bailey, to engage in a groundbreaking experiment that pushes the boundaries of privacy, ethics and ultimately her personal freedom. Her participation in the experiment, and every decision she makes begin to affect the lives and future of her...

7) Burn book: a tech love story

Author

Swisher, Kara

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2024.

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New Non-Fiction and Biography

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Book, eBook

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Part memoir, part history, Burn Book is a necessary chronicle of tech's most powerful players. This is the inside story we've all been waiting for about modern Silicon Valley and the biggest boom in wealth creation in the history of the world.

8) The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

Author

Deutschman, Alan

Publisher

Crown

Pub. Date

2001

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From the acclaimed Vanity Fair and GQ journalist–an unprecedented, in-depth portrait of the man whose return to Apple precipitated one of the biggest turnarounds in business history. With a new epilogue on Apple’s future survival in today’s roller-coaster economy, here is the revealing biography that blew away the critics and stirred controversy within industry and media circles around the country.

9) The Internet Is Not the Answer

Author

Keen, Andrew

Publisher

Grove Atlantic

Pub. Date

2015

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Since its creation during the Cold War, the Internet, together with the Web, personal computers, tablets and smartphones, has ushered in one of the greatest shifts in society since the Industrial Revolution. The Digital Revolution has contributed to the world in many positive ways, but we are less aware of the Internet's deeply negative effects. The Internet Is Not the Answer, by longtime Internet skeptic Andrew Keen, offers a comprehensive look at...

10) Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives

Author

Zuckerberg, Randi

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

2013

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With Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives, new media pioneer Randi Zuckerberg offers an entertaining and essential guide to understanding how technology and social media influence and inform our lives online and off. Zuckerberg has been on the frontline of the social media movement since Facebook's early days and her following six years as a marketing executive for the company. Her part memoir, part how-to manual addresses issues of privacy,...

11) Steve Jobs Wanted Perfection - Celebrity Biography Books | Children's Biography Books

Author

Professor, Baby

Publisher

Speedy Publishing LLC

Pub. Date

2017

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Steve Jobs is known to be a genius who wouldn’t settle for mediocre results. Because of his intense desire for perfection, he created great products that have changed how technology look today. Reading about inspiring true to life stories will create a feeling of wanting to be as great as the subjects. In this case, did reading his story want you be like Steve Jobs?

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1) An Ugly Truth: Inside Facebook's Battle for Domination

2) Blood, Sweat, and Pixels: The Triumphant, Turbulent Stories Behind How Video Games Are Made

3) Uncanny Valley: A Memoir

4) Spam Nation: The Inside Story of Organized Cybercrime-from Global Epidemic to Your Front Door

5) The AI Dilemma: 7 Principles for Responsible Technology

6) The Circle

7) Burn book: a tech love story

8) The Second Coming of Steve Jobs

9) The Internet Is Not the Answer

10) Dot Complicated: Untangling Our Wired Lives

11) Steve Jobs Wanted Perfection - Celebrity Biography Books | Children's Biography Books