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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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Facebook City: Zuckerberg plans waterfront town in SF

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg is getting into the city planning business by creating a 200 acre community for over 10,000 Facebook employees. The small town – currently nicknamed “Zee” for Zuckerberg – would be a waterfront housing development and community near …

Google set to launch a new kid-friendly YouTube app

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. will soon be releasing a new app called YouTube Kids that will offer a safer, sanitized version of the video streaming service that will be aimed at children. “Parents were constantly asking us, can you make YouTube a better place …

Assassin’s Creed: Unity patch removes unpopular companion app

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Assassin’s Creed: Unity has been criticized for many things, not the least of which was its horribly botched release, which included numerous bugs and glitches that made the game unplayable for many gamers for several days or longer. Ubisoft has released several …

New York toy museum creates a World Video Game Hall of Fame

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

The Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester, New York, has announced that it is establishing a Video Game Hall of Fame dedicated to recognizing culturally important video games across all gaming platforms, including arcade systems, home consoles, PCs, mobile devices, and …

Zuckerberg compares Internet.org to critical services like 911

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

In a recent interview with Bloomberg TV’s Emily Chang, Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg compared basic internet access to critical services like 911. To help realize his goal of connecting the world, Zuckerberg founded Internet.org, a charity organization led by Facebook that also includes supporters …

How a West Coast port strike could be bad news for Nintendo

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

A long running dispute involving a West Coast union and Pacific shipping companies does not seem to be ending anytime soon, which is bad news for Nintendo Co Ltd and many other Asian manufacturers. Cargo ships might seem like ancient technology, but it is still …

Facebook releases Stetho, an open source debugger for Android devs

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. has become more than just a social media company over the last few years as the company started developing new technologies to solve its own unique challenges. Some of these innovations have been released into the open source community, such as the 6-Pack networking switch that was …

Epic Games offers $5 million to devs for using Unreal Engine

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Epic Games Inc. has announced that it will be giving out $5 million in financial grants to developers with “no strings attached” provided that they use the company’s Unreal Engine to develop their games. “When a developer succeeds with the Unreal Engine, …

Virtual reality Facebook apps may be coming to Oculus Rift

NEWS By ERIC DAVID12 YEARS AGO

Some people already live inside Facebook, but the social network might be making that obsession literal with the creation of virtual reality apps for Oculus Rift. “I mean, virtual reality is pretty cool. We’re working on apps for VR,” Facebook Inc. CPO …

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