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When the town pariah Lizzie Oullette is found dead, with her husband missing, Detective Ian Bird discovers a link to a social media influencer and wife of a disgraced billionaire who had a relationship with Lizzie that cut across class boundaries-and ultimately became deadly. Copper Falls, Maine. The local junkyard is burning, and town pariah Lizzie Oullette is dead-- with her husband, Dwayne, nowhere to be found. Detective Ian Bird’s inquiries...

Playing video games is a fun hobby for many, but sometimes a hobby can turn into an obsession. When this happens, it's time to make some important choices. Readers of this innovative book follow along as one boy's life becomes taken over by his fixation on video games. They'll see the importance of striving to make positive decisions, taking control of your life, and learning from your actions. Vibrant illustrations and relatable characters help readers...

"An entertainment and tech insider--YouTube's chief business officer--delivers the first detailed account of the rise of YouTube, the creative minds who have capitalized on it to become pop culture stars, and how streaming video is revolutionizing the media world. In the past ten years, the internet video platform YouTube has changed media and entertainment as profoundly as the invention of film, radio, and television did, more than six decades earlier....

"The origin story of the Age of Disinformation: the candid inside tale of two online media rivals, Jonah Peretti of HuffPost and Buzzfeed and Nick Denton of Gawker Media, whose delirious pursuit of attention at scale in the first two decades of the 21st century helped release the dark forces that would overtake the internet and American society. If attention is the new oil, Ben Smith's Traffic is the story of the time between the first gusher and...

Une puce logée dans le long poil d'un chien est expulsée de son nid. Elle aboutit à l'intérieur d'un ordinateur o elle fait la connaissance d'une puce électronique. Quel genre de vie mène une puce électronique ? Est-ce que la puce de chien aurait envie d'habiter dans cette mystérieuse boîte ?

Sarah lives in a town full of superheros, but she has yet to earn her own superhero cape. The tradition is that when you save the day you earn your cape, but how will Sarah ever get a cape when her older brother, Andy, swoops in every time. One fateful day, Andy downloads a malware virus on the family computer - one that infects the whole town! Luckily, a school cyber education program has been teaching Sarah all about cyber safety and how to protect...

Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, he almost spends more time on the VirtNet than in the actual world. The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and it's addictive. Thanks to technology, anyone with enough money can experience fantasy worlds, risk their life without the chance of death, or just hang around with Virt-friends. And the more hacking skills you have, the more fun. Why bother following the rules when most of them are dumb,...

"The definitive report on the disruption of the news media over the last decade. With the expert guidance of former Executive Editor of The New York Times Jill Abramson, we follow two legacy (the New York Times and the Washington Post) and two upstart (BuzzFeed and VICE) companies as they plow through a revolution in technology, economics, standards, commitment, and endurance that pits old vs. new media"-- The definitive report on the disruption...

Massive Online Mess — Chocs Un scénariste-programmeur et une étudiante en neurologie altèrent secrètement un jeu massivement multijoueurs en ligne pour tenter de réduire la violence dans le monde. Sébastien croit aimer Alexandra. En fait, il n'en est pas encore bien certain. Il faut dire qu'il est constamment en train de développer un jeu vidéo qui absorbe toute son énergie et sa créativité. Donc pas vraiment le temps d'investir dans...