Eric David

Eric David is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE, covering the latest trends in social media and gaming. He is an avid gamer and enjoys writing about innovations in the video game industry and gaming culture in general. Eric graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas, receiving major honors for his thesis "A Culture of Heresy: Explaining the Resiliency of Catharism and the Church's Response," which is every bit as exciting as it sounds. Eric lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife, dog and gaming PC.

Latest from Eric David

ObEN raises $10M to build AI-powered copies of real people for hospitality and retail

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

ObEN Inc., a Pasadena startup that builds virtual avatars powered by artificial intelligence, announced today that it has raised $10 million in funding from Hong Kong’s K11 Art Foundation. Combined with previous investments from Tencent, Softbank, HTC and others, this brings the startup’s total …

Google Wallet and Android Pay merge into a single service called Google Pay

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Google LLC announced today that it’s launching a mobile payment platform called Google Pay, which will combine peer-to-peer payments from Google Wallet and mobile payments with Android Pay into one service. According to Pali Bhat, Google’s vice president of product management for payments, …

University of Washington opens $6M VR research lab funded by Facebook, Google and Huawei

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

The University of Washington today announced the creation of the UW Reality Lab, a $6 million virtual and augmented reality research lab that was funded by equal contributions from Facebook Inc., Google LLC and Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. The lab will be part of the …

Millions of Android users downloaded malicious flashlight apps on Google Play

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Proving that flashlight apps are still as sketchy as ever, Google LLC has removed 22 malicious flashlight apps from Google Play after cybersecurity company Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. discovered that the apps were loaded with adware. Apps containing the adware, which Check Point …

Zuckerberg’s personal challenge for 2018 is to ‘fix’ Facebook

PEOPLE By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. had a stellar 2017 when it came to revenue, but the company’s public image was not so lucky, especially after it revealed that it unwittingly sold political ads to a Russia-backed organization. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg admitted today that the Facebook is struggling with …

Indian government denies reported breach of its national ID service

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Indian newspaper The Tribune reported today that India’s national ID program has been breached, but the Indian government has rejected the paper’s claims. In its report, The Tribune said that it was able to buy access to an illegal database of citizen personal information for less than …

In a challenge to Amazon’s Alexa, Roku pitches a voice assistant for home entertainment

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Roku Inc. may have been an early pioneer for streaming media devices, but it lost some ground to competing devices from companies like Amazon.com Inc. and Google LLC Now the company wants to turn the tables by creating its own smart assistant to challenge …

UK may tax ‘ruthless profiteers’ such as Facebook for slow response to extremist content

PEOPLE By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

A United Kingdom official wants to impose higher taxes on tech giants that don’t do their share to fight extremist web content. In an interview with the Sunday Times on Dec. 31, Ben Wallace, the U.K.’s minister of state for security, accused companies such …

Some mobile games can listen in on your TV viewing habits

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Hundreds of mobile games on Google Play and the Apple App Store have software that can listen to your TV viewing habits through your smartphone’s microphone. According to a New York Times report Thursday, the creator of the software is Alphonso Inc., an …

YouTube yanked from Amazon Fire TV four days early

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

The strained relationship between Google LLC and Amazon.com Inc. seems to be getting worse, as the YouTube app on Amazon’s Fire TV streaming device has been deactivated four days early. Google had already pulled YouTube from Amazon Echo Show in September, and Google …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

ObEN raises $10M to build AI-powered copies of real people for hospitality and retail

Google Wallet and Android Pay merge into a single service called Google Pay

University of Washington opens $6M VR research lab funded by Facebook, Google and Huawei

Millions of Android users downloaded malicious flashlight apps on Google Play

Indian government denies reported breach of its national ID service

In a challenge to Amazon’s Alexa, Roku pitches a voice assistant for home entertainment

UK may tax ‘ruthless profiteers’ such as Facebook for slow response to extremist content

Some mobile games can listen in on your TV viewing habits

YouTube yanked from Amazon Fire TV four days early

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