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Book Synopsis‘A brilliant page-turner by one of Holland's finest investigative journalists’ Rutger Bregman, author of Humankind ‘Essential . . . What’s revealed are networks of spies and criminals fighting an invisible war that involves us all’ Eliot Higgins, bestselling author of We Are Bellingcat Summer 2017: computer screens go blank in 150 countries. The NHS is so affected that hospitals can only take in patients for A&E. Ambulances are grounded. Computer screens turn on spontaneously and warnings appear. Employees who desperately pull the plugs are too late. Restarting is pointless; the computers are locked. And now the attackers ask each victim for money. This is hijack software. It is just one example of how vulnerable the digital world has made us. Based on the cases he investigated over a period of six years, award-winning Dutch journalist Huib Modderkolk takes the reader on a tour of the corridors and back doors of the globalised digital world. He reconstructs British-American espionage operations and reveals how the power relationships between countries enable intelligence services to share and withhold data from each other. Looking at key players including Edward Snowden, Russian hackers Cozy Bear and Evgeniy Bogachev, ‘the Pablo Escobar of the digital era’, Modderkolk opens our eyes to the dark underbelly of the digital world with the narrative drive of a thriller.Trade ReviewA brilliant page-turner by one of Holland's finest investigative journalists -- Rutger Bregman, bestselling author of HUMANKINDHuib Modderkolk provides a unique insight into the shadowy conflict that is happening all around us, enabled by our own addiction to the internet. What's revealed are networks of spies and cybercriminals fighting an invisible war that involves us all, whether we realise it or not. An essential read for anyone who really wants to know what the internet is doing to our societies -- Eliot Higgins, bestselling author of WE ARE BELLINGCATThis is even better than John le Carré, because it’s true -- Matthijs van NieuwkerkIn the old days, anyone wanting to understand the world read the Bible. Anyone wanting to understand the world today should read this book -- Arjen Lubach

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Book SynopsisDespite the range of studies into grief and mourning in relation to the digital, research to date largely focuses on the cultural practices and meanings that are played out in and through digital environments. Digital Afterlife brings together experts from diverse fields who share an interest in Digital Afterlife and the wide-ranging issues that relate to this. The book covers a variety of matters that have been neglected in other research texts, for example:The legal, ethical, and philosophical conundrums of Digital AfterlifeThe ways digital media are currently being used to expand the possibilities of commemorating the dead and managing the grief of those left behindOur lives are shaped by and shape the creation of our Digital Afterlife as the digital has become a taken for granted aspect of human experience. This book will be of interest to undergraduates from computing, theology, business studies, philosophy, pTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Editors. Contributors. Introduction. Chapter 1 ◾ Perspectives on Digital Afterlife. Chapter 2 ◾ Social Media and Digital Afterlife. Chapter 3 ◾ Posthumous Digital Material: Does It ‘Live On’ in Survivors’ Accounts of Their Dead? Chapter 4 ◾ The Transition from Life to the Digital Afterlife: Thanatechnology and Its Impact on Grief. Chapter 5 ◾ Profit and Loss: The Mortality of the Digital Immortality Platforms. Chapter 6 ◾ The ‘New(ish)’ Property, Informational Bodies, and Postmortality. Chapter 7 ◾ Digital Remains: The Users’ Perspectives. Chapter 8 ◾ Legal Issues in Digital Afterlife. Chapter 9 ◾ Building a Digital Immortal. Chapter 10 ◾ Philosophical Investigations into Digital Afterlife. Chapter 11 ◾ Postdigital Afterlife: A Philosophical Framework. Chapter 12 ◾ Digital Afterlife Matters. GLOSSARY. INDEX.

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Book SynopsisApplied User Data Collection and Analysis Using JavaScript and PHP is designed to provide the technical skills and competency to gather a wide range of user data from web applications in both active and passive methods. This is done by providing the reader with real-world examples of how a variety of different JavaScript- and PHP-based libraries can be used to gather data using custom feedback forms and embedded data gathering tools. Once data has been gathered, this book explores the process of working with numerical data, text analysis, visualization approaches, statistics, and rolling out developed applications to both data analysts and users alike.Using the collected data, this book aims to provide a deeper understanding of user behavior and interests, allowing application developers to further enhance web-application development. Key Features: Complete real-world examples of gathering data from users and webTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Active data collection Chapter 3 Passive data collection Chapter 4 Custom dashboards Chapter 5 Working with text Chapter 6 Text visualization Chapter 7 Time-based feedback analysis Chapter 8 Feedback statistics and overviews Chapter 9 Hosting, reporting and distribution

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Book SynopsisFully updated to include Laravel 10, the third edition of this practical guide provides the definitive introduction to one of today's most popular web frameworks.

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Book SynopsisAs the distributed architecture underpinning the initial Bitcoin anarcho-capitalist, libertarian project, ''blockchain'' entered wider public imagination and vocabulary only very recently. Yet in a short space of time it has become more mainstream and synonymous with a spectacular variety of commercial and civic ''problem''/''solution'' concepts and ideals. From commodity provenance, to electoral fraud prevention, to a wholesale decentralisation of power and the banishing of the exploitative practices of ''middlemen'', blockchain stakeholders are nothing short of evangelical in their belief that it is a force for good. For these reasons and more the technology has captured the attention of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, global corporations and governments the world over. Blockchain may indeed offer a unique technical opportunity to change cultures of transparency and trust within cyberspace, and as revolutionary' and disruptive' has the potential to shift global socioecoTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I Regulating blockchain 1 BlockchainInterlude I: Supplementing the memory economic: … Wampum, memex, transcopyright, blockchain … 2 A regulatory conundrum3 Regulatory tradition4 Blockchain the regulatorInterlude II: Regulatory technology: Louis-Sebastien Mercier’s tax trunkPART II Critical perspectives5 Setting the sceneInterlude III: Anarchic technologies for anarchic economies: the ‘yellow trade’ of the Yorkshire coiners6 Blockchain as an ethics of neoliberal political economy7 The psycho-politics of blockchainInterlude IV: A dangerous lack of law: man with machine in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano8 Critical regulationIndex

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Book SynopsisThis concise book lays bare the full range of Google's powerful search-refinement features, so you can quickly find the specific information you need.

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Book SynopsisIs Responsive Web Design (RWD) slowing your site down? It doesn't have to. With this concise book, you'll learn practical techniques for improving performance with RWD, including a default set of guidelines you can use as an easy starting point.

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Book SynopsisThe Google Story is the definitive account of one of the most remarkable organizations of our time. Every day over sixty-four million people use Google in more than one hundred languages, running billions of searches for information on everything and anything. Through the creative use of cutting-edge technology and a series of groundbreaking business ideas, Google's thirty-five year old founders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, have in ten years taken Google from being just another internet start-up to a company with a market value of over US$80 billion. Based on scrupulous research and extraordinary access to the inner workings of Google, this book takes you inside the creation and growth of a company that has become so familiar its name is used as a verb around the world. But even as it rides high, Google wrestles with difficult challenges in a business that changes at lightning speed. In this new and updated edition to celebrate Google’s 10th birthday, David A. Vise has written a new preface and new final chapter which look at further developments since 2005 and how Google will continue to expand and innovate while trying to follow its founders' mantra: DO NO EVIL 'If you want to know how the Google boys became wealthy and powerful beyond dreams, then David Vise's assiduously researched The Google Story is for you.' Sunday Telegraph 'If Google were to take on critical faculties as well as its other attributes Vise's book would probably come out on top.' The Times

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Book SynopsisBE DISCOVERED with SEO Tactics for All Technical Levels Written for beginners, author Jon Rognerud offers every tip, trick, and secret from keyword research and competitive analysis, to marketing and messaging, content development, link building, and conversions and tracking of search engine positions. Local search, social media, and blogging are new to this edition, and show examples on how to optimize these important new development areas. Updated content includes social media search content that reflects strategies and market information to helps business owners easily add this companion to SEO work, blog optimization steps with best SEO tactics for creating search engine friendly sites, and the top ten hottest WordPress plugins for top traffic boost. A local SEO section shows readers how to avoid the most common mistakes on optimizing for local search and the updated section on Google analytics shows how to track top keywords and pages. An updated link building section provides new white hat SEO link building tactics to provide better long term rankings and traffic building, and an expanded resource section includes updated screen-shots of SEO applied. Step-by-step examples are written with an "at the kitchen table" type dialogue for accessibility and an advanced strategy section takes readers to the next level.Trade ReviewThis book is the perfect prescription for anyone suffering from SEO overwhelm. Rognerud's approach breaks down SEO in a simple-to-understand way then builds on visibility breakthrough concepts. I ultimately love this holistic approach to SEO. His strategic approach teaches how to get people TO a site but it also helps plan ways to get them THROUGH it to maximize ROI. --Lorrie Thomas Ross, M.A., Author, The McGraw-Hill 36-Hour Course to Online Marketing, lorriethomas.com Rognerud has a long history in technology, business consulting, and web development. His new book reflects that knowledge and experience in the search marketing field. He is a smart guy, and for folks starting in SEO, I suggest you pick up a copy. -Andy Beal, MarketingPilgrim.com Rognerud is a master in SEO and internet marketing. The tips and suggestions that he offers in his book are easy to understand and to implement even for a novice. He also offers many other powerful strategies that even an old pro like me finds insightful. This is one of the few books that I recommend to students at our SEO workshops. --"Radar" Roy Reyer, Certified Advanced SEO--Search Engine Academy, SEOtrainingSW.com This is the best treatment of SEO I've seen--get this book! It's the first SEO reference that also covers the latest in social and local search. At over 300 pages, you can brush up on your skills or just put it on your bookshelf to impress your colleagues! --Dennis Yu, Chief Executive Officer, BlitzLocal

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Book SynopsisDESCRIPTION Modern applications are constantly sending, receiving, and reacting to streams of data including internal messages, user and system events, and sensor input. Reactive Extensions (Rx) is a .NET library that abstracts away the sources of events and provides tools to effectively manage concerns like concurrency, scalability, error handling, and performance. Rx includes more than 600 operators with variants that can composed together to build reactive client and server-side applications that handle events asynchronously in a way that maximizes responsiveness, resiliency, and elasticity. Reactive Extensions in .NET is a step-by-step guide that shows developers how to build event-driven applications using the Rx library. First, it provides an overview of the design and architecture of Rx-based reactive applications. Then, it looks at the rich query capabilities that Rx provides and the Rx concurrency model that allows developers to control asynchronicity of code and processing of event handlers. The book also discusses consuming event streams, using schedulers to manage time, and working with Rx operators to filter, transform, and group events. Readers new to Rx will be able to learn from the ground up and those using Rx will get a deeper look at how to leverage Rx in existing reactive applications. KEY FEATURES • Step-by-step guide • Real life examples using Rx• Great for readers both new to Rx and those already using Rx AUDIENCE Readers should understand OOP concepts and be comfortable coding in C#. ABOUT THE TECHNOLOGY Reactive Extensions (Rx) is a .NET library that abstracts away the sources of events and provides tools to effectively manage concerns like concurrency, scalability, error handling, and performance. Rx includes more than 600 operators with variants that can composed together to build reactive client and server-side applications that handle events asynchronously in a way that maximizes responsiveness, resiliency, and elasticity.

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Book SynopsisUse the power of deep learning with Python to build and deploy intelligent web applicationsKey Features Create next-generation intelligent web applications using Python libraries such as Flask and Django Implement deep learning algorithms and techniques for performing smart web automation Integrate neural network architectures to create powerful full-stack web applications Book DescriptionWhen used effectively, deep learning techniques can help you develop intelligent web apps. In this book, you'll cover the latest tools and technological practices that are being used to implement deep learning in web development using Python.Starting with the fundamentals of machine learning, you'll focus on DL and the basics of neural networks, including common variants such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs). You'll learn how to integrate them into websites with the frontends of different standard web tech stacks. The book then helps you gain practical experience of developing a deep learning-enabled web app using Python libraries such as Django and Flask by creating RESTful APIs for custom models. Later, you'll explore how to set up a cloud environment for deep learning-based web deployments on Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services (AWS). Next, you'll learn how to use Microsoft's intelligent Emotion API, which can detect a person's emotions through a picture of their face. You'll also get to grips with deploying real-world websites, in addition to learning how to secure websites using reCAPTCHA and Cloudflare. Finally, you'll use NLP to integrate a voice UX through Dialogflow on your web pages.By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to deploy intelligent web apps and websites with the help of effective tools and practices.What you will learn Explore deep learning models and implement them in your browser Design a smart web-based client using Django and Flask Work with different Python-based APIs for performing deep learning tasks Implement popular neural network models with TensorFlow.js Design and build deep web services on the cloud using deep learning Get familiar with the standard workflow of taking deep learning models into production Who this book is forThis deep learning book is for data scientists, machine learning practitioners, and deep learning engineers who are looking to perform deep learning techniques and methodologies on the web. You will also find this book useful if you’re a web developer who wants to implement smart techniques in the browser to make it more interactive. Working knowledge of the Python programming language and basic machine learning techniques will be beneficial.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Demystifying Artificial Intelligence and Fundamentals of Machine Learning Getting Started with Deep Learning Using Python Creating Your First Deep Learning Web Application Getting Started with TensorFlow.js Deep Learning through APIs Deep Learning on Google Cloud Platform Using Python DL on AWS Using Python: Object Detection and Home Automation Deep Learning on Microsoft Azure Using Python A General Production Framework for Deep Learning-Enabled Websites Securing Web Apps with Deep Learning DIY - A Web DL Production Environment Creating an E2E Web App Using DL APIs and Customer Support Chatbot Appendix: Success Stories and Emerging Areas in Deep Learning on the Web

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