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

Kickstarter relaunches Drip as a subscription crowdfunding service like Patreon’s

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Kickstarter made a name for itself as one of the first and most successful crowdfunding platforms, but since it launched in 2009, Kickstarter has had one major limitation: It only works for onetime projects. That changed today with the launch of Drip, …

MekaMon lets you live out your robot battle fantasies in augmented reality

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Augmented reality may still be just a toy for most, but that toy just became a lot more interesting with the launch today of MekaMon, a small spiderlike robot that you can control and fight in AR. Designed by U.K.-based robotics company …

FDA approves digital pill that alerts doctors when you take your medicine

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a digital pill for the first time today, paving the way for other forms of connected medicine that could shape the future of healthcare. The newly approved pill is called Abilify MyCite, and it’s designed to sense …

TrueAccord raises $22M to make debt collection less stressful with machine learning

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Anyone who has had to deal with debt collection knows how terrifying and stressful the experience can be. TrueAccord thinks machine learning could be the solution to that problem, and today the company announced that it has raised $22 million funding to …

Startup employee compensation could suffer serious blow in GOP tax plan

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Updated Silicon Valley and other U.S. startup hubs are outraged at a provision in the newly revealed Republican tax plan that some tech leaders say could have a devastating impact on the way startups are funded. Under the new plan, the Senate would place …

Google takes steps to crack down on vulgar YouTube videos made from kids’ shows

PEOPLE By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

A recent report by the New York Times and a viral blog post by artist James Bridle called attention to a disturbing trend on YouTube: Some explicit and violent videos are slipping through the platform’s content filters by using popular children’s show characters such as Peppa …

Facebook Events lives again as Local, a Yelp-like app for finding things to do

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. had high hopes last year when it launched Events, a standalone app aimed at making it easier for users to find things to do in their local communities. Unfortunately, the app did not make the same kind of splash as Facebook …

Google Chrome will soon block those annoying site redirects

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Anyone who has visited a website only to have the browser hijacked and taken to another site knows how annoying these site “redirects” can be. More than annoying, they can also be a major security risk, which is why Google LLC will soon introduce new …

Fintech data startup Crux Informatics raises $10M to ‘make data delightful’

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Crux Informatics Inc. wants to help big companies wrangle their data into something a little easier to digest. Today, it emerged from stealth mode and announced that it has raised $10 million in a Series A funding round led by financial giant Goldman …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Kickstarter relaunches Drip as a subscription crowdfunding service like Patreon’s

MekaMon lets you live out your robot battle fantasies in augmented reality

FDA approves digital pill that alerts doctors when you take your medicine

TrueAccord raises $22M to make debt collection less stressful with machine learning

Startup employee compensation could suffer serious blow in GOP tax plan

Google takes steps to crack down on vulgar YouTube videos made from kids’ shows

Google Chrome will soon block those annoying site redirects

Fintech data startup Crux Informatics raises $10M to ‘make data delightful’

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