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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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How Google’s new AI plays video games like a human

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

What the IBM-made Deep Blue computer did with chess, Google Inc’s new DeepMind AI may soon do with video games. Google has developed a new AI capable of teaching itself how to learn and master video games in ways that could have big …

Hunger Games studio Lionsgate invests in Telltale Games

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Lionsgate Entertainment, the movie maker behind the blockbuster film franchise The Hunger Games and critically acclaimed TV series such as Orange is the New Black and Mad Men, has just made a “significant” investment in video game studio Telltale Games. Telltale CEO Kevin Bruner told Entertainment Weekly that …

Insightpool seeks to combine sales and social marketing to improve both

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Nearly four months after launching the updated version of its social drip marketing tool, Insightpool has acquired the Silicon Valley-based social selling startup Next Principles in a step toward creating its own unified social media marketing and selling platform. Social media is an incredibly …

Valve to take on Oculus Rift with SteamVR, debuting at #GDC2015

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

The virtual reality race is heating up, and now a new player has entered the field. Valve Corporation, the creator of the incredibly successful Steam Client and popular game series such as Half-life and Portal, will be showcasing its new SteamVR platform at the …

Facebook’s privacy policy breaks EU law, says Belgian watchdog

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

The social network giant Facebook Inc. is facing tougher scrutiny in Europe after a Belgian watchdog group determined that the company’s privacy policy violates European Union law. The Belgian government’s Privacy Commission enlisted the help of academics from the Catholic University of Leuven and the …

11-year-old livestreamer loses Destiny characters to troll

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Online services, including multiplayer games, often warn users against sharing account information with strangers, and one young boy from California has learned that lesson the hard way. 11-year-old Henry Kramer frequently streamed sessions of the popular PlayStation 4 game Destiny, a first-person shooter known …

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