Títulos en Informática y tecnología

Hay una revolución en marcha, una tecnología prodigiosa que nos va a permitir curar enfermedades, derrotar virus y tener hijos más sanos. A su cabeza está la reciente premio Nobel Jennifer Doudna y sus colegas, protagonistas del nuevo libro de Walter Isaacson.

Brought to you by Penguin. From an indispensable voice on China, comes a riveting, first-hand account of China's seismic progress For close to a decade, Dan Wang has been observing China’s tumultuous and astounding growth. The state has constructed towering bridges, gleaming railways and...

Primary Keys traces the hidden history of how humanity taught machines to remember - from filing cabinets, punched cards, and the first databases to SQL, data lakes, and artificial intelligence. Drawing on more than two decades of experience with data systems, Kobus Veldsman explores how the...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Prediction markets reward people who are right. AI helps you be right more often. This audiobook shows you how to combine the two. Bet on Everything Using ChatGPT or Claude is the practical guide to using AI as a research and analysis engine for trading...

Master software architecture and tame tangled legacy code by aligning your development team with real business needs. Follow a struggling cross-functional team at a fictional logistics company as they transform late projects and fragile systems into clean, evolving models. Perfect for your...

Artificial Intelligence for Dummies is the ideal starting point for anyone seeking a deeper technological understanding of how artificial intelligence works and what promise it holds for the future.

In November 2022, a webpage was posted online with a simple text box. It was ChatGPT, and was unlike any app people had used before. It was more human than a customer service agent, more convenient than a Google search. Behind the scenes, battles for control and prestige between the world’s...

Discover the technology that will change our financial system forever. The blockchain technology is probably the greatest human invention after the internet. Simply put, the blockchain technology is a form of a distributed ledger that is decentralized and public and can record transactions with...

Confused about AI and worried about what it means for your future and the future of the world? You're not alone. AI is everywhere—and few things are surrounded by so much hype, misinformation, and misunderstanding. In AI Snake Oil, computer scientists Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor cut through the confusion to give you an essential understanding of how AI works, why it often doesn't, where it might be useful or harmful, and when you should suspect that companies are using AI hype to sell AI snake oil—products that don't work, and probably never will.

Learn Git and GitHub the practical way—without confusion, intimidation, or wasted time. Version control is one of the most important skills every developer needs, but for beginners, Git and GitHub can feel overwhelming. Commands, branches, commits, repositories, pull requests, merge conflicts, and collaboration workflows can seem confusing at first—especially when most tutorials assume you already understand the basics. Git and GitHub for Beginners gives you a clear, step-by-step path from complete beginner to confident user.

In the course of our enduring quest for knowledge about ourselves and our universe, we haven't found answers to one of our most fundamental questions: Does life exist anywhere else in the universe? Ten years and billions of dollars in the making, the Mars rover Curiosity is poised toanswer this all-important question.

You picked up your phone eleven minutes ago. You intended to check the time. Since then, you have watched a man fall off a boat, learned that a celebrity you barely care about has changed hairstyles, and developed a strong opinion about a political controversy you had never heard of twelve minutes ago. You have not checked the time. This is not an accident. This is architecture.

From a New York Times bestselling author and investigative journalist comes The Social Network for the video game industry: a riveting examination of Blizzard Entertainment's rise and shocking downfall—"A fast paced thrill ride, perfect for anyone who has ever played a video game" (Ben...

Descubre los secretos de la tecnología con el primer libro del divulgador de informática más famoso de Hispanoamérica. Piénsalo: gracias a los avances tecnológicos podemos hablar con alguien que esté a miles de kilómetros, predecir el tiempo, cruzar el planeta en cuestión de horas, conocer nuestro estado de salud, curar enfermedades graves, acceder al instante a más información de la que nunca seremos capaces de leer... ¡Si incluso hemos conseguido hacer que las máquinas aprendan!

This book explores whether the Metaverse—understood here as a persistent, immersive, and widely utilized, virtual world—will be the next chapter in the evolution of cyberspace, and what that means for people, business, and society. The Metaverse. Depending on your perspective, it's the...

What is innovation? How is innovation used in business? How can we use it to succeed? Innovation, the ways ideas are made valuable, plays an essential role in economic and social development, and is an increasingly topical issue. Over the last 150 years our world has hit an accelerated rate of...

Nearly 20 years after the Agile Manifesto was first presented, the legendary Robert C. Martin (“Uncle Bob”) reintroduces Agile values and principles for a new generation - programmers and nonprogrammers alike. Martin, author of Clean Code and other highly influential software development guides, was there at Agile’s founding. Now, in Clean Agile: Back to Basics, he strips away misunderstandings and distractions that over the years have made it harder to use Agile than was originally intended.

Hoy más de la mitad de la población mundial se comunica, aprende, trabaja, compra, se informa, se organiza, escucha, lee o se entretiene con Internet y todo lo digital. Como en otros ámbitos de la educación, las familias ya no pueden desentenderse de la educación digital de sus hijos. Aunque tampoco conviene alarmarse. Para ello hay que tener unos criterios claros de buen comportamiento digital que se puedan transmitir a los hijos.

What happens when machines can see, hear, learn, and make decisions in real time? How are artificial intelligence, robotics, autonomous systems, and edge computing transforming the world around us? From self-driving vehicles and intelligent robots to AI-powered assistants and smart cities, we are living through one of the most significant technological revolutions in human history. The systems being developed today are laying the foundation for a future where intelligent machines operate alongside humans, process information instantly, and solve increasingly complex challenges.

April 13, 1970. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert are hurtling towards the moon in the Apollo 13 spacecraft, when an explosion rocks the ship. The cockpit grows dim, the air grows thin, and the instrument lights wink out. Moments later, the astronauts are forced to abandon the...