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

Cyberprivacy startup Anonyome Labs raises $20.4M for secure messaging and payments

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Anonyome Labs, a Utah-based startup that runs a cyberprivacy platform for consumers, announced today that it has closed a $20.4 million funding round. The Series B round included participation by existing investors Greg Clark, chief executive of Symantec Corp., and Crosspoint Ventures founder …

Google open-sources speech command dataset for TensorFlow

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Alphabet Inc.’s TensorFlow machine learning framework and AIY do-it-yourself artificial intelligence teams have released a dataset of more than 65,000 utterances of 30 different speech commands, giving developers a powerful toolset to implement their own simple voice controls without having to build everything from …

Quick start: On Monday, Amazon will slash prices and offer Prime discounts at Whole Foods

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. single-handedly sent grocery company stocks tumbling in June when it made the surprise announcement that it would be acquiring Whole Foods Market Inc. for $13.7 billion. Now, after receiving approval from the Federal Trade Commission for the deal on Wednesday, that merger will …

Sliver.tv raises $9.8M to let esports fans watch in VR

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Sliver.tv, a video streaming startup that lets users watch live esports matches in virtual reality, has raised an additional $9.8 million in early-stage funding as it looks to expand its platform and add new games to its roster. The Series A funding round …

Battle of the titans: Wal-Mart and Google join to take on Amazon’s voice-assisted shopping

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is teaming up with Google Inc. to build its own voice-assisted shopping experience, as it looks to go head-to-head with similar features offered by Amazon.com Inc. Wal-Mart and Google announced today that users will soon be able …

AI-powered job search Leap.ai raises $2.4M in seed round

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Silicon Valley startup Leap.ai wants to use artificial intelligence to match job seekers up with potential employers, and now it has raised a stake to help it realize the vision. Today the company announced that it has closed a $2.4 million seed funding …

Android Oreo rolls out with speed improvements and better multitasking

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. finally confirmed today that the latest version of its Android mobile operating system is called Android Oreo, and the new OS is already rolling out to Nexus and Pixel phones. Android Oreo boasts a number of improvements over its predecessors, …

Facebook explains what happens to your data when you die

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. has more than 2 billion people using its social network, more than a quarter of the Earth’s population, and with such a large user base, it is inevitable that some users will pass away, leaving a graveyard of profiles that …

Reddit takes on YouTube and Facebook by allowing users to upload videos directly

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Reddit, the popular content-sharing platform that considers itself to be “the front page of the Internet,” will test out a new feature that will allow users to upload their videos straight to the site without having to turn to a third-party host such as …

Report: Apple will invest $1B to create its own TV shows and films

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. will invest more than $1 billion to produce several of its own television shows and films over the next year, which could put the iPhone maker in more direct competition with the likes of Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Prime. According to a …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Cyberprivacy startup Anonyome Labs raises $20.4M for secure messaging and payments

Google open-sources speech command dataset for TensorFlow

Quick start: On Monday, Amazon will slash prices and offer Prime discounts at Whole Foods

Sliver.tv raises $9.8M to let esports fans watch in VR

Battle of the titans: Wal-Mart and Google join to take on Amazon’s voice-assisted shopping

AI-powered job search Leap.ai raises $2.4M in seed round

Android Oreo rolls out with speed improvements and better multitasking

Report: Apple will invest $1B to create its own TV shows and films

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