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The murder machine / by Graham, Heather,author.;
Artificial intelligence meets genuine murderous intent. This state-of-the-art smart home has everything: a next-generation entertainment system, an ultramodern kitchen where every appliance is online and even a personal AI to control it all. Standing above its owner's lifeless body, FBI agent Jude Mackenzie is faced with the daunting task of discovering how the woman was killed by her own home. How do you catch a murderer that doesn't leave any fingerprints? Enter Special Agent Victoria Tennant, whose familiarity with cybercrime reveals the stark truth: a machine can only do what it's been directed to. As the number of grisly "accidents" begins to rise, the pair must race to uncover the perpetrator even as they find themselves caught in their digital crosshairs! There's nowhere to hide when danger may be as close as the very phones in their pockets.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; Artificial intelligence; Computer crimes; Interpersonal relations; Man-woman relationships; Murder; Women detectives;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 3
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The Murder Machine [electronic resource] : by Graham, Heather.aut; Paige, Tim.nrt; CloudLibrary;
Artificial intelligence meets genuine murderous intent. This state-of-the-art smart home has everything: a next-generation entertainment system, an ultramodern kitchen where every appliance is online and even a personal AI to control it all. Standing above its owner's lifeless body, FBI agent Jude Mackenzie is faced with the daunting task of discovering how the woman was killed by her own home. How do you catch a murderer that doesn't leave any fingerprints? Enter Special Agent Victoria Tennant, whose familiarity with cybercrime reveals the stark truth: a machine can only do what it's been directed to. As the number of grisly "accidents" begins to rise, the pair must race to uncover the perpetrator even as they find themselves caught in their digital crosshairs! There's nowhere to hide when danger may be as close as the very phones in their pockets.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; Police Procedural; Crime; Technological;
© 2025., HarperCollins,
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Outrage machine : how tech amplifies discontent, disrupts democracy--and what we can do about it / by Rose-Stockwell, Tobias,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."Over the last two decades, there has been an inescapable rise of anger and aggression across our planet. Hate speech has become increasingly prevalent online, Western governments are turning towards authoritarianism and populism, and extremist groups are rising across both the left and the right ends of the political spectrum. Every day, it seems, we're hearing more angry voices and fearful opinions, we're seeing more threats and frightening news, and we're reacting faster and less rationally. The cause is hidden in plain sight: for the first time, almost all of the information we consume as a species is being controlled and curated by algorithms designed to capture our emotional attention. This, media researcher and strategic advisor Tobias Rose-Stockwell argues, is the outrage machine. It is the wide-cast net of social media that is propelled by tech, has been exploited by all of us, and which has been allowed to steadily replace our newspapers, emergency communication systems, town halls, churches, and more. In the vein of The Righteous Mind and Factfulness, Outrage Machine is a big-think book that explores the unintended consequences of this alarming shift in today's smartphone era--and shows us how to navigate the world we now live in. First, he explains how and why we've become addicted to not just technology, but outrage itself. Since social media algorithms now favor the most inflammatory content because it gets the highest engagement, the levels of righteousness, certainty, and extreme judgment in our daily interactions have increased as well. Next, he shows us why we're more prone to panic, and how the immediate dispersion of our panic can be more dangerous than the threat itself-and can bypass necessary confirmation of the accuracy and potential harm of this information. Rose-Stockwell also explores how the original intent of many of our social tools has been compromised, from improving click-through rates for charitable causes to catalyzing our current culture of click-baiting and sensationalism on an unparalleled scale. Fortunately, Outrage Machine is not just a warning--it's also a critical guide that clearly explains the underlying machinery that has come to control us, and a compass to help guide people toward reflection rather than reaction. The culmination of 15 years of research and inquiry, this book gives readers a language with which to comprehend what is happening to society, and offers new mental models for how to manage our time, our technology, and our attention. It also offers big-picture recommendations for how to redesign these platforms, as well as methods for fixing this broken system before it "fixes" us"--
Subjects: Democracy.; Information society.; Social media; Social media.; Hate;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Learn decorative machine stitching / by Griepentrog, Linda Turner.;
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Subjects: Machine sewing.;
© c2013., Annie's,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The fabulous friend machine / by Bland, Nick,1973-;
Popcorn, the friendliest chicken at Fiddlesticks Farm, finds a forgotten smartphone in the farm, and is soon spending all day and all night exchanging messages with exciting new friends, and ignoring her old friends, the farm animals. When she invites her new friends to meet her at the farm, they are not quite what she expects, but the farm animals step in to save her from disaster.LSC
Subjects: Chickens; Smartphones; Smartphones; Domestic animals; Friendship;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Sam battles the machine! / by Chabert, Jack.; Ricks, Sam.;
Sam, Lucy, and Antonio have a new substitute teacher, who happens to be the great-great-grandson of Orson Eerie, the evil scientist whose spirit possesses and infects their elementary school--and the friends are afraid he may be trying to bring Orson back to life.LSC
Subjects: Graves, Sam (Fictitious character); Substitute teachers; Haunted schools; Scientists; Inheritance and succession; Elementary schools; Best friends;
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How to train your sewing machine / by Begum, Rehana,author.; Morishima, Akio,illustrator.;
Trained on Savile Row, Rehana Begum's taught sewing for years, and knows how to introduce beginners to their sewing machines without stress or disaster. Now she presents that expertise in an elegant contemporary format. With the book's clearly illustrated techniques section, you'll quickly learn how to thread your machine, choose your stitch, and start up without creating a frustrating tangle of knots. Begum then introduces simple patterns, including a tote bag and a simple dress, so you'll quickly be able to build on your skills and turn them into finished products to be proud of. Removing the fear, this book will painlessly get you sewing--and open the way to a satisfying skill that will serve you for the rest of your life.
Subjects: Machine sewing.; Sewing machines.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The infernal machine : a true story of dynamite, terror, and the rise of the modern detective / by Johnson, Steven,1968-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York -- and the detective duo who transformed policing to meet the threat -- from the bestselling author of The Ghost Map"--
Subjects: Anarchists; Detectives;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Shiny snow machines / by Mitton, Tony.; Parker, Ant.;
Amazing Machines: Shiny Snow Machines follows Bird, Mouse, and Rabbit as they wrap up warm and explore things that go in the snow! Each page is filled with details that machine-mad kids will love including zambonis, ice trucks, snow-making machines, snowgliders, and much more.
Subjects: Board books.; Machinery; Snow; Snowplows;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The everything machine / by Novak, Matt.;
What if you had a machine that did everything? One that cleaned your house, mowed your lawn, scratched your back, even colored your coloring books? That's what the people of Planet Quirk had. And for them, life was so easy that on most days they didn't even have to get out of bed. But on one fateful day, the machine stopped working.LSC
Subjects: Life on other planets; Machinery; House cleaning;
© 2009., Roaring Brook Press,
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