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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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Mythic raises $40M for its battery-friendly artificial intelligence chips

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID8 YEARS AGO

Yet another artificial intelligence chipmaker has snagged a major funding round. Austin-based startup Mythic Inc. announced today that it has raised $40 million for its “intelligence processing units,” which are specifically designed handle AI workloads. Founded in 2012, Mythic developed its own hardware …

Telegram ordered to hand encryption keys over to Russian authorities

APPS By ERIC DAVID8 YEARS AGO

Messaging app Telegram may have lost its long-running privacy battle against the Russian government. Russia’s Supreme Court has rejected an appeal made by the London-based Telegram Messenger LLP against a ruling that would force the app to hand its users’ encryption keys and chat histories …

Fig’s games have returned 245% for crowdfund investors

APPS By ERIC DAVID8 YEARS AGO

Fig Publishing Inc., a video game crowdfunding platform that shares profits with backers, revealed today that the four games it has published so far have made an impressive 245 percent return on investment. Fig launched in 2015 shortly after the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission …

AI chip startup SambaNova raises $56M from GV and others

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID8 YEARS AGO

SambaNova Systems, a startup that makes chips specifically for artificial intelligence, exited stealth mode with a bang today after it raised $56 million. The Series A funding round was led by Walden International and GV, Alphabet Inc.’s venture capital arm, and it also included …

Google’s open-source synth uses AI to invent new instruments

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID8 YEARS AGO

Magenta, Google LLC’s research project to apply artificial intelligence to the arts, has released a new toy for musicians: NSynth Super. Described as “an open source experimental instrument,” NSynth Super allows musicians to play around with the Magenta team’s NSynth or Neural Synthesizer machine learning algorithm. …

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