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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.

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YouTube VR finally arrives on PC, but reviews are mixed

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Google LLC has has been keeping YouTube VR to itself, releasing the 360 video app exclusively on its Daydream mobile virtual reality platform. Today, YouTube VR is finally available for desktops. Google has released a free YouTube VR app on PC gaming platform Steam …

EBay acquires Terapeak to give sellers better analytics on their sales

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Online marketplace eBay Inc. today said it has acquired Terapeak Inc., a Toronto-based data startup that helps sellers make supply and pricing decisions for ecommerce sites such as eBay and Amazon.com. Founded in 2002, Terapeak’s cloud-based data platform lets sellers track supply, demand and pricing data both …

Apple invests $390M in US maker of iPhone X’s Face ID lasers

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. will invest $390 million in Finisar Corp., an American optics company that produces components for iPhone X’s facial recognition technology. The investment comes from Apple’s $1 billion Advanced Manufacturing Fund, which aims to create more manufacturing jobs in the U.S. Finisar is one of Apple’s largest suppliers …

Facebook changes how it reports international ad money

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. announced a major change today to the way it reports advertising revenue outside of the U.S., claiming that it wants to be more transparent with local governments and businesses. Currently, Facebook lumps its non-U.S. ad revenue into a single report through its international …

Learn Go tips from Google DeepMind’s champion AI, AlphaGo

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

You can now learn to play Go like a supergenius with AlphaGo Teach, a new tool created by Alphabet Inc.’s DeepMind team that cracks open the mind of their undefeated artificial intelligence, AlphaGo. AlphaGo Teach offers up AlphaGo’s analysis of the 6,000 …

Menlo Security raises $40M to fight malware in the enterprise

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Silicon Valley startup Menlo Security announced today that it has raised $40 million in a late-stage funding to expand its antimalware tools for the enterprise. The Series C funding round included participation by new investors American Express Ventures, Ericsson Ventures and HSBC, along …

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