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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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Parse.ly raises $6.8M to help publishers know their audience

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

New York-based startup Parse.ly announced today that it has closed a $6.8 million funding round for its analytics platform for publishers. The Series B round was led by existing investors Grotech Ventures and Blumberg Capital, and it also included participation by other previous investors, …

New AI can spot anthrax in under one second

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Several anthrax attacks in the early 2000s left the public terrified of unidentified white powders, but unfortunately, recognizing anthrax requires both expert knowledge and time. A team of scientists from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology may have found a solution to …

UK publishes security guidelines to protect self-driving cars from hackers

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

The United Kingdom Sunday published a new set of cybersecurity requirements for self-driving cars that encourages automakers to protect connected vehicles from hackers. According to the U.K.’s Department for Transport and the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure, cybersecurity is as vital to …

Tencent shuts down rogue chatbots for badmouthing China’s government

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

The Chinese government is not known for taking criticism lightly, which explains why Tencent Holdings Ltd. hastily took down a pair of chatbots that went rogue and started spouting anticommunist rhetoric on its popular messaging app. The two chatbots were named BabyQ and XiaoBing, …

Facebook translations now rely entirely on neural networks

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

With more than 2 billion users, Facebook Inc. has to deal with dozens of different languages on its social network, which poses a bit of a barrier to the company’s new mission to “bring the world closer together.” Facebook hopes that artificial …

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