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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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Mend reimagines house calls for the smartphone age

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Sometime between the 1960s and the 1980s the house call all but disappeared in the U.S., and these days the idea of a doctor coming to your home might seem as quaint and outdated as beehive hair-dos and rotary telephones. But in …

Facebook users in the U.S. can now send money through Messenger

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Facebook is finally rolling out its Messenger payment features to all users across the U.S., now making the old “I’ll pay you back later” excuse obsolete. Facebook first began testing Messenger payments in March in a few select locations, and it later expanded them …

Facebook makes News Feed smarter at suggesting videos

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made it no secret that he believes the future of the social network lies in video, and today Facebook is rolling out more algorithm tweaks to make News Feed smarter at picking what videos you see. According to Facebook Engineering Manager Meihong …

Minecraft creator Mojang abandons development on Scrolls

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Nearly every developer would have trouble trying to match the incredible success of a game like Minecraft, including Minecraft’s own creators, Stockholm-based Mojang AB. In 2012, the then-independent studio began working on a card battling mobile game called Scrolls, and after lengthy alpha and beta phases, …

What the Fallout 4 devs can learn from The Witcher 3

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

There has been no shortage of “open world” games in the last few years, whether they are Bethesda Game Studios’ sprawling landscapes (Fallout 3, Oblivion, Skyrim) or Ubisoft Entertainment’s climb-things-to-unlock-maps simulators (Assassin’s Creed, Far Cry). The first two games of CD Projekt RED’s The Witcher series were …

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