Computers & Technology Audiobooks | Non-Fiction

PHP: PHP Security and Session Management

"Discover how you can secure your website and applications now. Understand how security and sessions get managed. Do you want to know how your website can be secured? Are you getting attacks on your websites? Are you getting tired of applying tricks they show in YouTube but it’s still not working? If so, the simple solution is right below: PHP Security and Session Management will answer all your queries and help you understand the core issues and how you can solve them. It will educate your about the threats your site can face once it’s live. This book will address the issues and the solutions as well. Imagine not worrying about getting your site hijacked, having abundant knowledge about the threat you’ve just faced. Imagine being able to help a fellow or junior programmer. Imagine your site fully secure and not having to worry about getting robbed while you sleep. With this book, you can gain vital information on these issues and get their solutions as well. You’ll receive the basic yet critical information regarding PHP security, from threats to attacks. After listening to this book you’ll understand the core steps you need to take in order to prevent these attacks. Along with these amazing discoveries, you’ll be able to secure your PHP website. By the end of this book, if you keep it in practice along with listening to it, you’ll end up being a master of security and session management. It is for anyone who’s looking to secure their website or wants to understand the sessions in depth. Whether you are a hustler, an intermediate coder, or an advanced one, the teachings you’ll discover in this book will help you with the security and sessions of your website/applications. Grab your copy today to finally take over those filthy attacks which may be one of the reasons of your sleepless nights."

Andy Vickler (Author), Helpful Matthew (Narrator)

Audiobook

PHP: Advanced PHP Functions

"Are you a programmer interested in getting a deeper understanding of the concepts, features, and tools in the PHP programming language? Would you like to develop faster and easy-to-use programs using PHP? Or are you stuck in a certain PHP area and would like a solution to your problem? PHP is a fantastic programming language with simple fundamentals. If you learn PHP now, you'll be able to build anything from a basic contact form to a full-fledged web application. You'll also discover how to set up a mailing list and a content management system. Having stated that, this audiobook will show you how to achieve it. We'll also show you how to create PHP applications that tackle real-world issues. Because PHP is a web based language, having a basic understanding of HTML and CSS will be beneficial. Still, if you're new to HTML and CSS, this is a good place to start. Don't worry; HTML and CSS are as simple as one, two, and three. PHP is considered among the most important languages to use in programming. Why? Because it adds a lot of functionality to websites created in HTML. It is a general-purpose language even if the major reason it was designed is to generate web pages."

Andy Vickler (Author), Helpful Matthew (Narrator)

Audiobook

R Programming: R Basics for Beginners

"R is an open-source statistical environment and programming language that has grown in popularity for data management and analysis in various industries. “R” Programming teaches you all the R you'll ever need in a rapid and painless manner. This accessible tutorial taught you your way around a list with no previous programming expertise and loads of practical examples, step-by-step exercises, and sample code. This book covers the most significant modeling and prediction methods, as well as their applications. Learn how to use R to transform raw data into knowledge, understanding, and insight. This book introduces you to R, RStudio, and the tidyverse, a set of R tools that work together to make data research simple, fluent, and enjoyable. This book is meant to get you practicing data science as fast as possible, even if you have no prior programming expertise. You'll get a comprehensive grasp of the data science cycle and the fundamental tools you'll need to handle the details. R is becoming more well-known by the day, as large institutions embrace it as a standard. Its popularity stems partly from the fact that it is a free tool replacing expensive statistical software products that may take an undue amount of time to master. Furthermore, R allows a user to do complicated statistical analyses with only a few keystrokes, making advanced studies accessible and clear to a broad audience. Learn how to import data, construct and dismantle data objects, traverse R's environment system, develop your own functions, and utilize all of R's programming tools with this book. This book will not only teach you how to program but also how to use R for more than simply displaying and analyzing data. The book is highly informative with lots of code, and also I added tons of pictures of how the code will look in r studio. Following the book, you will be able to start Rstudio and use the program smoothly."

Andy Vickler (Author), Helpful Matthew (Narrator)

Audiobook

PHP: 3 books in 1: PHP Basics for Beginners + PHP Security and Session Management + Advanced PHP Fun

"Book 1 Explore the dynamic world of web development through PHP, and get to know the potential of PHP. Do you get overwhelmed when trying to start a web development career? Are you not sure which language to choose? Are you unsure if PHP is the right language? Or you know PHP is the one but you don’t know where to start? Along with these amazing discoveries, you’ll also get to code on smaller functions. By the end of this book, if you keep it in practice along with listening to it, you’ll end up with a website. The book not only talks about the theory and tactics of PHP but also teaches you how you can claim a career in web development via PHP. Book 2 Discover how you can secure your website and applications now, and understand how security and sessions get managed. Do you want to know how your website can be secured? Are you getting attacks on your websites? Are you getting tired of apply tricks they show in YouTube but it’s still not working? Imagine not worrying about getting your site hijacked, having abundant knowledge about the threat you’ve just faced. Imagine being able to help a fellow or junior programmer. Imagine your site fully secure and not having to worry about getting robbed while you sleep. Grab your copy of PHP Security and Session Management today to finally take over those filthy attacks which may be one of the reasons of your sleepless nights. Book 3 Are you a programmer interested in getting a deeper understanding of the concepts, features, and tools in the PHP programming language? PHP is a fantastic programming language with simple fundamentals. If you learn PHP now, you'll be able to build anything from a basic contact form to a full-fledged web application. You'll also discover how to set up a mailing list and a content management system. PHP is considered among the most important languages to use in programming."

Andy Vickler (Author), Helpful Matthew (Narrator)

Audiobook

Fossil Future: Why Global Human Flourishing Requires More Oil, Coal, and Natural Gas--Not Less

"The New York Times bestselling author of The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels draws on the latest data and new insights to challenge everything you thought you knew about the future of energy For over a decade, philosopher and energy expert Alex Epstein has predicted that any negative impacts of fossil fuel use on our climate will be outweighed by the unique benefits of fossil fuels to human flourishing--including their unrivaled ability to provide low-cost, reliable energy to billions of people around the world, especially the world's poorest people. And contrary to what we hear from media "experts" about today's "renewable revolution" and "climate emergency," reality has proven Epstein right: - Fact: Fossil fuels are still the dominant source of energy around the world, and growing fast-while much-hyped renewables are causing skyrocketing electricity prices and increased blackouts. - Fact: Fossil-fueled development has brought global poverty to an all-time low. - Fact: While fossil fuels have contributed to the 1 degree of warming in the last 170 years, climate-related deaths are at all-time lows thanks to fossil-fueled development. What does the future hold? In Fossil Future, Epstein, applying his distinctive "human flourishing framework" to the latest evidence, comes to the shocking conclusion that the benefits of fossil fuels will continue to far outweigh their side effects-including climate impacts-for generations to come. The path to global human flourishing, Epstein argues, is a combination of using more fossil fuels, getting better at "climate mastery," and establishing "energy freedom" policies that allow nuclear and other truly promising alternatives to reach their full long-term potential. Today's pervasive claims of imminent climate catastrophe and imminent renewable energy dominance, Epstein shows, are based on what he calls the "anti-impact framework"-a set of faulty methods, false assumptions, and anti-human values that have caused the media's designated experts to make wildly wrong predictions about fossil fuels, climate, and renewables for the last fifty years. Deeply researched and wide-ranging, this book will cause you to rethink everything you thought you knew about the future of our energy use, our environment, and our climate."

Alex Epstein (Author), Alex Epstein (Narrator)

Audiobook

Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making - The New York Times bestseller

"Brought to you by Penguin. Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in 30+ years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia. So that's what this book is. An advice encyclopedia. A mentor in a box. Written for anyone who wants to grow at work - from young grads navigating their first jobs to CEOs deciding whether to sell their companies - Build is full of personal stories, practical advice and fascinating insights into some of the most impactful products and people of the 20th century. Each quick 5-20 page entry builds on the previous one, charting Tony's personal journey from a product designer to a leader, from a startup founder to an executive to a mentor. Tony uses examples that are instantly captivating, like the process of building the very first iPod and iPhone. Every chapter is designed to help readers with a problem they're facing right now - how to get funding for their startup, whether to quit their job or not, or just how to deal with the jerk in the next cubicle. Tony forged his path to success alongside mentors like Steve Jobs and Bill Campbell, icons of Silicon Valley who succeeded time and time again. But Tony doesn't follow the Silicon Valley credo that you have to reinvent everything from scratch to make something great. His advice is unorthodox because it's old school. Because Tony's learned that human nature doesn't change. You don't have to reinvent how you lead and manage - just what you make. And Tony's ready to help everyone make things worth making. © Tony Fadell 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022"

Tony Fadell (Author), Roger Wayne (Narrator)

Audiobook

Atoms and Ashes: From Bikini Atoll to Fukushima

"Brought to you by Penguin. In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now considered one of the costliest nuclear disasters ever. But Fukushima was not the first, and it was not the worst. . . In Atoms and Ashes, acclaimed historian Serhii Plokhy tells the tale of the six nuclear disasters that shook the world: Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym, Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. Based on wide-ranging research and witness testimony, Plokhy traces the arc of each crisis, exploring in depth the confused decision-making on the ground and the panicked responses of governments to contain the crises and often cover up the scale of the catastrophe. As the world increasingly looks to renewable and alternative sources of energy, Plokhy lucidly argues that the atomic risk must be understood in explicit terms, but also that these calamities reveal a fundamental truth about our relationship with nuclear technology: that the thirst for power and energy has always trumped safety and the cost for future generations. © Serhii Plokhy 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022"

Serhii Plokhy (Author), Leighton Pugh (Narrator)

Audiobook

What You Don't Know: AI's Unseen Influence on Your Life and How to Take Back Control

"You are probably not aware, because of their hidden nature, but artificial intelligence systems are all around you affecting some of the biggest areas of your life—jobs, loans, kids, mental health, relationships, freedoms, and even healthcare decisions that can determine if you live or die. As an executive working in AI at one of the largest, most sophisticated tech companies on the planet, Cortnie Abercrombie saw firsthand how the corporate executives and data science teams of the Fortune 500 think about and develop AI systems. In this book she makes it easy to understand how AI works and unveils what companies are doing with AI that can impact you the most. Most importantly, she offers practical advice on what you can do about it today and the change you should demand for the future. This book addresses the pressing questions that non-insiders want answered, including: how does AI work (in words you don't need a PhD to understand)?; how can AI affect my job, replace me, or prevent my hire?; is AI involved in life-or-death decisions in healthcare?; could my digital accounts or home network be hacked because of my AI-based smart TV, coffeemaker, or robot vacuum?; how does AI know so much about me, what does it know, and can it be used against me?; can it manipulate people to do things they wouldn't normally?; and much more."

Cortnie Abercrombie (Author), Megan Tusing (Narrator)

Audiobook

Hacking Artificial Intelligence: A Leader's Guide from Deepfakes to Breaking Deep Learning

"We are accelerating towards the automated future. But this new future brings new risks. It is no surprise that after years of development and recent breakthroughs, artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming businesses, consumer electronics, and the national security landscape. But like all digital technologies, AI can fail and be left vulnerable to hacking. The ability to hack AI and the technology industry's lack of effort to secure it is thought by experts to be the biggest unaddressed technology issue of our time. Hacking Artificial Intelligence sheds light on these hacking risks, explaining them to those who can make a difference. Today, very few people—including those in influential business and government positions—are aware of the new risks that accompany automated systems. While society hurdles ahead with AI, we are also rushing towards a security and safety nightmare. This book is the first-ever layman's guide to the new world of hacking AI and introduces the field to thousands of people who should be aware of these risks. From a security perspective, AI is today where the internet was thirty years ago. It is wide open and can be exploited. Listeners from leaders to AI enthusiasts and practitioners alike are shown how AI hacking is a real risk to organizations and are provided with a framework to assess such risks, before problems arise."

Davey Gibian (Author), Tom Parks (Narrator)

Audiobook

The Digital Mindset: What It Really Takes to Thrive in the Age of Data, Algorithms, and AI

"The pressure to 'be digital' has never been greater. The digital revolution is here. It's changing how work gets done, how industries are structured, and how people from all walks of life work, behave and relate to each other. To thrive in a world driven by data and powered by algorithms, we must learn to see, think, and act in new ways. We need to develop a digital mindset. But what does that mean? Some fear it means that in the near future we will all need to become technologists who master the intricacies of coding, algorithms, AI, machine learning, robotics, and who knows what's next. This book introduces three approaches—Collaboration, Computation, Change—that you need for a digital mindset, and the perspectives and actions within each approach that will enable you to develop digital skills you need. With the digital mindset, you can ask the right questions, make smart decisions and appreciate new possibilities for a digital future. Leaders who adopt these approaches will be able to develop their organization's talent to prepare their company for successful and continued digital transformation. The surprising and welcome secret is that developing a digital mindset isn't as hard as we think. Most people can become digitally savvy if they follow the '30% rule,' or the minimum threshold that gives us just enough digital literacy to understand and take advantage of the digital fabric woven into our world."

Paul Leonardi, Tsedal Neeley (Author), Emmanuel Chumaceiro (Narrator)

Audiobook

Made in the USA: The Rise and Retreat of American Manufacturing

"In Made in the USA, Vaclav Smil powerfully rebuts the notion that manufacturing is a relic of predigital history and that the loss of American manufacturing is a desirable evolutionary step toward a pure service economy. Smil argues that no advanced economy can prosper without a strong, innovative manufacturing sector and the jobs it creates. Smil explains how manufacturing became a fundamental force behind America's economic, strategic, and social dominance. He describes American manufacturing's rapid rise at the end of the nineteenth century, its consolidation and modernization between the two world wars, its role as an enabler of mass consumption after 1945, and its recent decline. Some economists argue that shipping low-value jobs overseas matters little because the high-value work remains in the United States. But, asks Smil, do we want a society that consists of a small population of workers doing high-value-added work and masses of unemployed? Smil assesses various suggestions for solving America’s manufacturing crisis, including lowering corporate tax rates, promoting research and development, and improving public education. Will America act to preserve and reinvigorate its manufacturing? It is crucial to our social and economic well-being; but, Smil warns, the odds are no better than even."

Vaclav Smil (Author), Adam Barr (Narrator)

Audiobook

Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies from Information Warfare

"A look inside the weaponization of social media, and an innovative proposal for protecting Western democracies from information warfare. Tyrants on Twitter is the first detailed analysis of how Chinese and Russian agents weaponize Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube to subvert the liberal international order. In addition to examining the 2016 US election, David L. Sloss explores Russia's use of foreign influence operations to threaten democracies in Europe, as well as China's use of social media and other digital tools to meddle in Western democracies and buttress autocratic rulers around the world. Sloss calls for cooperation among democratic governments to create a new transnational system for regulating social media to protect Western democracies from information warfare. Drawing on his professional experience as an arms control negotiator, he outlines a novel system of transnational governance that Western democracies can enforce by harmonizing their domestic regulations. And drawing on his academic expertise in constitutional law, he explains why that system—if implemented by legislation in the United States—would be constitutionally defensible, despite likely First Amendment objections. With its critical examination of information warfare and its proposal for practical legislative solutions to fight back, this is a must-listen in a time when disinformation campaigns threaten to undermine democracy."

David L. Sloss (Author), Graham Rowat (Narrator)

Audiobook

Computers & Technology Audiobooks in Non-Fiction