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

Did you see secret Russian propaganda on Facebook? Soon you can find out

PEOPLE By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. announced today that it will release a new tool that will allow users to see if any of the pages they have liked or followed were secretly created by the Internet Research Agency, an organization backed by the Russian government as …

Apple’s self-driving car team uses machine learning to get more out of LiDAR

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. has had a “will they or won’t they” relationship with self-driving car development over the last few years, and unlike companies like Alphabet Inc. or Uber Technologies Inc., Apple has been fairly tight lipped about most of its work. From what little is …

Facebook Messenger now lets you send images in 4K resolution

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. announced today that pictures are about to get a lot better on Messenger, as the popular chat app will now support images at 4K resolution, the maximum resolution supported by most new smartphone cameras. Users do not have to do …

Cue the outrage: FCC reveals plan to end net neutrality

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission unveiled a plan today that would completely repeal net neutrality laws put in place two years ago under the Obama administration, a move that would have long-term implications for the future of the internet. Under current laws, …

Skype removed from Chinese app stores at government’s request

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

The government of China has forced the removal of yet another foreign-made communication app, the New York Times reported today. Microsoft Corp.’s video chat service Skype has been removed from the Apple App Store and several other app platforms in China for allegedly violating …

Pixvana raises $14M for its cloud-based VR studio – in a VR pitch, naturally

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Startups and sales teams know how hard it can be to make an interesting pitch with slideshows and charts, and every convention expo is full of neglected booths that try to lure people with the promise of koozies and flashing lanyards. Seattle-based startup …

Spotify acquires cloud-based music recording platform Soundtrap

CLOUD By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Spotify AB is not content with being a place only to listen to music anymore, and now the Stockholm-based company wants to help people create music too. Spotify announced today that it has acquired fellow Swedish company Soundtrap, a cloud-based recording platform …

Amazon Key vulnerability could let couriers enter your home unseen

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Many people were skeptical about Amazon.com Inc.’s new electronic lock system, Amazon Key, which allows deliveries to be dropped inside your home when you are gone, and now it looks like some of those fears might be justified. According to a report …

Google, Facebook and others will show ‘trust indicators’ to fight fake news and hoaxes

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Internet giants such as Facebook Inc. and Google LLC have come under fire over the last year the untrustworthy news that gets circulated on their platforms, but now the two companies and several others are joining a new initiative from The Trust Project …

Aiming at Amazon’s Alexa, Baidu unveils a quirky smart speaker and robot

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Chinese web giant Baidu Inc., one of the biggest names in artificial intelligence outside the U.S., today joined the smart device race with a wild-looking new smart speaker and equally colorful home robot. Baidu revealed the new devices, both powered by Baidu’s DuerOS …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Apple’s self-driving car team uses machine learning to get more out of LiDAR

Cue the outrage: FCC reveals plan to end net neutrality

Skype removed from Chinese app stores at government’s request

Pixvana raises $14M for its cloud-based VR studio – in a VR pitch, naturally

Spotify acquires cloud-based music recording platform Soundtrap

Aiming at Amazon’s Alexa, Baidu unveils a quirky smart speaker and robot

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