Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment by Jason Schreier

MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy by James Rickards

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729851 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/729851] to listen full audiobooks. Title: MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy Author: James Rickards Narrator: James Rickards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 4 minutes Release date: November 14, 2024 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: Brought to you by Penguin. Financial expert, investment advisor and New York Times bestselling author James Rickards shows how generative AI is reshaping the world of finance, explaining what smart investors can do to protect their assets. AI-powered programmes like ChatGPT have become valuable tools in the financial market, and proven to be incredibly beneficial to investors looking to identify investment opportunities and risks that might be overlooked by humans. Yet there is a darker side to these products, which we are only just beginning to fully understand. In this book, Rickards shows how models like ChatGPT work, and how they can be leveraged to capitalize on markets and avoid losses by providing accurate, up-to-date financial insights. Rickards’ guide is essential reading for anyone looking to navigate this tumultuous new climate. James Rickards breaks down the best ways you can protect your wealth in the age of the shifting financial markets, busting the myths surrounding all the usual doomsday predictions around super intelligent AI. © James Rickards 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

War Play: Video Games and the Future of Armed Conflict by Corey Mead

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753543 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/753543] to listen full audiobooks. Title: War Play: Video Games and the Future of Armed Conflict Author: Corey Mead Narrator: Joel Richards Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 6 hours 43 minutes Release date: October 29, 2024 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: A behind-the-scenes look at how the military uses video game technology to train soldiers, treat veterans, and entice new recruits How does the U.S. military train its soldiers for new forms of armed conflict, all within the constraints of diminished defense budgets? Increasingly, the answer is cutting-edge video game technology. Corey Mead shows us training sessions where soldiers undertake multiplayer “missions” that test combat skills, develop unit cohesion, and teach cultural awareness. He immerses himself in 3-D battle simulations so convincing that they leave his heart racing. And he shows how the military, which has shaped American education more than any other force over the last century, fuels the adoption of games as learning tools—and recruitment come-ons. Mead also details how the military uses games to prepare soldiers for their return to the home front and to treat PTSD. Military-funded researchers were closely involved with the computing advances that led to the invention of the Internet. Now, as Mead proves, we are poised at the brink of a similar explosion in game technology. War Play reveals that many of tomorrow’s teaching tools, therapies, and entertainments can be found in today’s military.

Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar by Max Hastings

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739122 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739122] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler's Radar Author: Max Hastings Narrator: John Hopkins, Max Hastings Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 33 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: In this enthralling history, internationally bestselling author Max Hastings recounts the odds-defying Operation Biting, a 1942 parachute commando raid on Northern France to steal vital components of German intelligence—one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and one of the most successful. In February 1942, RAF intelligence was baffled by a newly identified radar network on the coast of Nazi-occupied Europe, codenamed Würzburg. British intelligence proposed an assault to capture key components. Incredibly brave agents of the French Resistance risked their lives to probe the German defenses on the Normandy coast. Then a company of Airborne forces were dropped into France in the dead of night amid heavy snow. Launching their attack, the allied soldiers dismantled the German’s radar, and after three nail-biting hours and a fierce battle with Wehrmacht defenders, escaped in the nick of time using landing-craft that carried them back across the stormy seas to Portsmouth. Operation Biting retells this dramatic operation through a gallery of amazing characters from Winston Churchill, who promoted the raid, to Lord Mountbatten, who commanded Combined Operations, to the brave unsung commandos who fought their way through enemy territory. A cliffhanger of a story that ratchets the suspense to the last page, Operation Biting sheds new light on an exciting and little-known chapter of the Second World War. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment by Jason Schreier

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755088 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/755088] to listen full audiobooks. Title: Play Nice: The Rise, Fall, and Future Of Blizzard Entertainment Author: Jason Schreier Narrator: Ray Chase Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 9 hours 17 minutes Release date: October 8, 2024 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.11 of Total 9 Ratings of Narrator: 3 of Total 4 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: 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. For video game fans, the name Blizzard Entertainment was once synonymous with perfection. The renowned company behind classics like Diablo and World of Warcraft was known to celebrate the joy of gaming over all else. What was once two UCLA students' simple mission — to make games they wanted to play — launched an empire with thousands of employees, millions of fans, and billions of dollars.   But when Blizzard cancelled a buzzy project in 2013, it gave Bobby Kotick, the infamous CEO of corporate parent Activision, the excuse he needed to start cracking down on Blizzard's proud autonomy. Activision began invading Blizzard from the inside. Glitchy products, PR disasters, mass layoffs, and a staggering lawsuit marred the company's reputation and led to its ultimate reckoning. Based on firsthand interviews with more than 300 current and former employees, Play Nice chronicles the creativity, frustration, beauty, and betrayal across the epic 33-year saga of Blizzard Entertainment, showing us what it really means to "bleed Blizzard blue." Full of colorful personalities and dramatic twists, this is the story of what happens when the ruthless pursuit of profit meets artistic idealism.

The Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World by David K. Randall

Please visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739128 [https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/739128] to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Into Unknown Skies: An Unlikely Team, a Daring Race, and the First Flight Around the World Author: David K. Randall Narrator: Adam Verner Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 11 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 17, 2024 Genres: Computers & Technology Publisher's Summary: “David K. Randall has conjured the first air race to circumnavigate the globe in all its death-defying glory, featuring a cast of unlikely heroes who had the right stuff before anyone knew what that was.” — Mitchell Zuckoff, New York Times bestselling author of Lost in Shangri-La and 13 Hours “Thrilling reading...an account filled with unexpected layers of intrigue. Recommend Into Unknown Skies to Erik Larson fans.” —Booklist The unbelievable history of the 1924 race to circumnavigate the globe for the first time by air, a nail-biting contest that pitted underdog US pilots against their better-funded European rivals, created technology that changed aviation, and convinced America that its future was in the sky.  In the early 1920s, America’s faith in aviation was in shambles. Twenty years after the Wright Brothers’ first flight, most Americans believed airplanes were for delivering the mail or performing daredevil stunts in front of crowds. The dream of commercial air travel remained just that. Even the American military was a skeptic—rather than pay to bring its planes back from Europe following World War I, the War Department chose to burn most of them instead.  All that changed with a single race in 1924. It was not just any race, though—it was a race to become the first to circle the globe in an airplane, pitting a team of underdog American pilots against the best aviators in the world from England, Italy, Portugal, France, and Argentina. Rooted in the same daring spirit that pushed early twentieth-century explorers to attempt crossings of the Antarctic ice or locate the source of the Nile, this race was an adventure unlike anything the world had seen before. The obstacles were daunting—from experimental planes, to dangerous landings in uncharted territory, to the simple navigational gauges that could lead pilots hundreds of miles off course. Failure seemed all but guaranteed—the suspense less about who would win than how many would perish for the honor of being the first. Now on the race’s centennial, award-winning author David K. Randall tells the story of this riveting, long-forgotten race. Through larger-than-life characters, treacherous landings, disease, and ultimately triumph, Into Unknown Skies demonstrates how one race returned America to aviation greatness. A story of underdog teammates, bold exploration, and American ingenuity, Into Unknown Skies is an untold adventure tale showing the power of flight to bring the world together. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.