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

Placemeter uses computer vision to help build smarter cities

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Computer vision startup Placemeter Inc. launched a new set of tools today that could change the way cities are built, affecting everything from where crosswalks are placed to the locations businesses choose to set up shop. Placemeter’s “urban intelligence platform” uses computer vision to extract …

Sony announces slimmer PlayStation 4 model with 1TB of storage

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Sony Corp has announced that a new PlayStation 4 model called the “Ultimate Player Edition” will be hitting the market by the end of next month, first arriving in Japan at the end of June and then reaching Europe and North America later …

Amazon uses machine learning to improve reviews and weed out fakes

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Product reviews on sites like Amazon.com can have a huge impact on what consumers buy, and improving the quality of those reviews is in the best interests of just about everyone involved. That is why Amazon Inc is revitalizing its review system …

Indie dev on why he doesn’t believe in Steam Sales

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

One of the reasons Valve Corp’s Steam client is so popular is the frequent discounts the platform gives to games, especially the massive winter and summer sales that last for nearly half a month. But not everyone is a fan of big …

Amazon will start paying some Kindle authors for each page read

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Amazon Inc is introducing a new payment model for certain Kindle authors that will pay them by pages read, rewarding the people who write books that have more than catchy titles. The new pay feature will specifically affect authors who are part …

PlayStation has no plans to follow Xbox’s example with backwards compatibility

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp surprised Xbox fans at this year’s E3 by announcing that it would be introducing backwards compatibility to Xbox One. Meanwhile, fans of the PlayStation 4 eagerly awaited for Sony Corp to announce that it intended to follow suit, but it …

Steam Spy creator sheds light on how Steam users buy and play games

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Valve Corp does not give out much information regarding the millions of people who use its digital game platform, Steam, and that makes it difficult for developers and marketers to get a handle on the way people buy and play their games through …

WhatsApp gets a failing grade on EFF privacy scorecard

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Privacy is a growing concern in the digital age, and few companies find themselves being criticised for how they handle user privacy more than Facebook Inc. Apparently some of those problems also extend to the social network’s other properties, including its popular messaging service …

Facebook tests out “See First” feature for more personalized News Feed

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Over the last few years, Facebook Inc has been slowly tweaking the way News Feed works to make it easier for users to see the content that actually interests them. That can be hard when some users have hundreds of “friends,” many …

YouTube launches ‘Newswire’ service for eyewitness videos

NEWS By ERIC DAVID11 YEARS AGO

Google Inc announced today that it has partnered with social news agency Storyful to create a new video hub called the YouTube Newswire, which Google describes as “a curated feed of the most newsworthy eyewitness videos of the day.” “Today, more than 5 million hours of …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Placemeter uses computer vision to help build smarter cities

Sony announces slimmer PlayStation 4 model with 1TB of storage

Amazon uses machine learning to improve reviews and weed out fakes

Indie dev on why he doesn’t believe in Steam Sales

Amazon will start paying some Kindle authors for each page read

PlayStation has no plans to follow Xbox’s example with backwards compatibility

Steam Spy creator sheds light on how Steam users buy and play games

WhatsApp gets a failing grade on EFF privacy scorecard

Facebook tests out “See First” feature for more personalized News Feed

YouTube launches ‘Newswire’ service for eyewitness videos

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