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    Hitting the Books: How legendary hackers wound up working for the CIA

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    08.10.2019

    Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

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    Hitting the Books: Modern surveillance and 'the science of happiness'

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    07.27.2019

    Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

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    Hitting the Books: Gravity's mystery may prove our multiverse exists

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    07.13.2019

    Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

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    The surprising story behind the Apple Watch's ECG feature

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    07.06.2019

    This week in Engadget's Hitting the Books series: the surprising story behind the Apple Watch's ECG feature.

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    Hitting the Books: We won't colonize space without a Weyland-Yutani

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    06.15.2019

    Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

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    Hitting the Books: The slow death of the strategy guide

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    06.08.2019

    Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

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    Hitting the Books: An army of temps put a man on the moon

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    05.25.2019

    Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought-provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

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    Hitting the Books: Your personal data makes the digital world go round

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    05.18.2019

    Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

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    Hitting the Books: Autonomous cars will do more than drive you around

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    05.11.2019

    Welcome, dear readers, to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

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    Hitting the Books: Ever wonder how audio sampling works?

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    05.04.2019

    Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

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    Hitting the Books: When better living through technology isn't enough

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    04.27.2019

    Welcome to Engadget's newest series, Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

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    Hitting the Books: How calculus is helping unravel DNA's secrets

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    04.20.2019

    Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

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    Hitting the Books: A candid look at Tim Cook’s time at Apple

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    04.13.2019

    Welcome to Engadget's excerpt series, Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

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    Hitting the Books: Brotopia

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    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    03.10.2019

    Welcome to Engadget's new series, Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

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    Hitting the Books: The Second Kind of Impossible

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    03.02.2019

    Welcome, dear readers, to Engadget's new series, Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.

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    Hitting the Books: Ray Kurzweil on humanity's nanobot-filled future

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    02.03.2019

    Welcome, dear readers, to Engadget's newest series, Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought-provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories. Architects of Intelligence by Martin Ford Artificial intelligence is the technology of tomorrow made manifest today. Thinking machines hold the promise of revolutionizing modern society from transportation and telecommunications to medicine and life sciences. But for all its upsides, AI has the potential to upend economies, disrupt job markets and incur unanticipated consequences at all levels of society. In his new book, Architects of Intelligence: The Truth about AI from the People Building It, author Martin Ford interviews 23 tech luminaries and thought leaders in AI development to discuss the benefits and pitfalls the technology poses for the industry, the economy and society as a whole. In the excerpt below, Ford sits down with Ray Kurzweil -- Director of Engineering at Google -- to discuss how AI-driven nanobots may one day help humans live radically longer, disease-free lives and hardwire augmented reality tech directly into our brains.

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    Hitting the books: Will Computers Revolt?

    by 
    Andrew Tarantola
    Andrew Tarantola
    12.08.2018

    Welcome, dear readers, to the first iteration of Engadget's newest series, Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.