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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Facebook launches Messenger Kids, a chat app for children

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Like many online companies, Facebook Inc. has had a longstanding rule forbidding children under 13 from having their own accounts. Today the social media giant took a step away from that restriction with the launch of Messenger Kids, a standalone chat app specifically designed for young kids. …

General Motors will launch its own self-driving taxi service in 2019

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

General Motors Co. is one of many auto companies interested in the future of self-driving cars, and today the 109-year-old car maker announced that it plans to launch its own autonomous taxi service in 2019, going head to head with similar projects being developed …

Apple helps doctors study heart health with new Apple Watch app

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. joined the healthcare industry today with the launch the new Apple Health Study app for the Apple Watch, which gathers heart rate data for a medical study conducted by Stanford University. First announced at Apple’s big press event in September, the new …

Apple countersuit says Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips violate its patents

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

The ongoing legal spat between Apple Inc. and chip maker Qualcomm Technologies Inc. just got even more complicated, as Apple filed a new countersuit today claiming that the Snapdragon processors that power many Android devices infringe on Apple’s patents. Reuters reported that Qualcomm filed …

Terbium Labs raises $6M for its AI that watches the dark web for stolen data

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Terbium Labs, a Baltimore-based security startup that monitors the dark web for stolen data, announced today that it has raised $6 million in funding round led by Glasswing Ventures, bringing total funding to $15 million. Every business likes to believe that its cybersecurity …

Judge delays Uber-Waymo trial again, ‘can no longer trust’ what Uber says

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

It looks like Uber Technologies Inc. may have another rough year ahead of it. A federal judge decided today to once delay Uber’s trial with Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo again, giving Waymo’s lawyers time to new evidence suggesting that Uber trained its employees to steal trade secrets. Waymo first …

Waymo’s self-driving cars have traveled 4 million miles on public roads

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Waymo LLC, Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car division, has been testing its vehicles on public roads for a few years, and this week the company announced that its cars have already traveled more than 4 million miles. Waymo began as an internal project at Google …

Here’s how Facebook is using AI to help suicidal users

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. announced in March that it was exploring ways to use artificial intelligence to help suicidal users, and today the social network revealed several ways that it has been using its AI to prevent suicides. Guy Rosen, vice president of product …

Google DeepMind is helping neural nets decide how they want to learn

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

There is no one teaching style that works perfectly for every student, and it turns out that the same can be said for neural networks, the computing systems that power many of today’s smartest artificial intelligence programs. Enterprises can waste a lot of time and money if …

Google DeepMind announces new research partnership to fight breast cancer with AI

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

When it is not playing videos games or conquering the world of Go, DeepMind Technologies Ltd. puts many of its machine learning resources toward improving healthcare, and today the Alphabet Inc.-owned company announced a new research partnership to fight breast cancer using artificial intelligence. As …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

General Motors will launch its own self-driving taxi service in 2019

Apple helps doctors study heart health with new Apple Watch app

Apple countersuit says Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chips violate its patents

Terbium Labs raises $6M for its AI that watches the dark web for stolen data

Judge delays Uber-Waymo trial again, ‘can no longer trust’ what Uber says

Waymo’s self-driving cars have traveled 4 million miles on public roads

Here’s how Facebook is using AI to help suicidal users

Google DeepMind is helping neural nets decide how they want to learn

Google DeepMind announces new research partnership to fight breast cancer with AI

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