Computer Wars

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    • Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle That Defined a Generation
    • By: Blake J. Harris
    • Narrated by: Fred Berman
    • Length: 20 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-13-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,515 ratings
    • A mesmerizing, behind-the-scenes business thriller that chronicles how Sega, a small, scrappy gaming company led by an unlikely visionary and a team of rebels, took on Nintendo....

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    • Autonomous Weapons and the Future of War
    • By: Paul Scharre
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 05-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 533 ratings
    • Paul Scharre, a Pentagon defense expert and former U.S. Army Ranger, explores what it would mean to give machines authority over the ultimate decision of life or death....

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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 385 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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    • The Weaponization of Social Media
    • By: P. W. Singer, Emerson T. Brooking
    • Narrated by: George Guidall
    • Length: 11 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 958 ratings
    • Two defense experts explore the collision of war, politics, and social media, where the most important battles are now only a click away. Through the weaponization of social media, the Internet is changing war and politics, just as war and politics are changing the Internet....

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    • Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
    • By: Cliff Stoll
    • Narrated by: Will Damron
    • Length: 12 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 01-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,665 ratings
    • Before the internet became widely known as a global tool for terrorists, one perceptive US citizen recognized its ominous potential. Armed with clear evidence of computer espionage, he began a highly personal quest to expose a hidden network of spies that threatened national security....

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    • Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters
    • By: Kate Brown
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 108 ratings
    • Kate Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the extraordinary stories of Richland, Washington, and Ozersk, Russia - the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium....

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    • From Victory to Collapse
    • By: Joseph T. Glatthaar
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 25 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • This sweeping history of the Civil War and the Confederacy is told through the lens of its most crucial army, the Army of Northern Virginia commanded by Robert E. Lee....

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    • The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft
    • By: Peter Westwick
    • Narrated by: David de Vries
    • Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 116 ratings
    • On a moonless night in 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing....

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    • Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
    • By: Jacob Helberg
    • Narrated by: Jesse Einstein
    • Length: 11 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • From 2016 to 2020, Jacob Helberg led Google’s global internal product policy efforts to combat disinformation and foreign interference. During this time, he found himself in the midst of what can only be described as a quickly escalating two-front technology cold war....

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    • Hacks That Shocked the Business World
    • By: Charles Arthur
    • Narrated by: Joe Jameson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Cyber Wars gives you the dramatic inside stories of some of the world's biggest cyber attacks. These are the game-changing hacks that make organisations around the world tremble and leaders stop and consider just how safe they really are....

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    • How Open Technological Innovation is Arming Tomorrow's Terrorists
    • By: Audrey Kurth Cronin
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal. The diffusion of modern technology to ordinary people has given them access to weapons of mass violence previously monopolized by the state....

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    • The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex
    • By: Shane Harris
    • Narrated by: Stephen R. Thorne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 11-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 663 ratings
    • The United States military currently views cyberspace as the "fifth domain" of warfare - alongside land, sea, air, and space - and the Department of Defense, National Security Agency....

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    • The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It
    • By: Robert K. Knake, Richard A. Clarke
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • Author of the number one New York Times best seller Against All Enemies, former presidential advisor and counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke sounds a timely and chilling warning about America's vulnerability in a terrifying new international conflict -cyber war....

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    • The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency That Changed the World
    • By: Sharon Weinberger
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 16 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 121 ratings
    • The definitive history of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency that has quietly shaped war and technology for nearly 60 years....

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    • America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
    • By: John P. Carlin, Garrett M. Graff
    • Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
    • Length: 16 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 514 ratings
    • The inside story of how America's enemies launched a cyberwar against us - and how we've learned to fight back....

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    • Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity
    • By: Joe Allen
    • Narrated by: Dave Clark
    • Length: 16 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Like a thief in the night, artificial intelligence has inserted itself into our lives. It makes important decisions for us every day. Often, we barely notice....

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    • War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age
    • By: David E. Sanger
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 12 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,459 ratings
    • The Perfect Weapon is the startling inside story of how the rise of cyberweapons transformed geopolitics like nothing since the invention of the atomic bomb....

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    • Bletchley Park, Colossus, and the Dawn of the Digital Age
    • By: David A. Price
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • The dramatic, untold story of the brilliant team whose feats of innovation and engineering created the world’s first digital electronic computer - decrypting the Nazis’ toughest code, helping bring an end to WWII, and ushering in the information age....

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    • The Untold Story of the Railroad War that Made the West
    • By: John Sedgwick
    • Narrated by: John Bedford Lloyd
    • Length: 10 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • It is difficult to imagine now, but for all its gorgeous scenery, the American West might have been barren tundra as far as most Americans knew well into the 19th century....

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