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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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Language learning app Duolingo raises $25M at a $700M valuation

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Language learning platform Duolingo Inc. announced today that it has closed a $25 million late-stage funding round led by Drive Capital. According to the company, the Series E round brings its total funding to $108.3 million and sets its overall valuation at $700 million. …

Adobe will put Flash media player out of its misery in 2020

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Adobe Systems Inc.’s Flash media player helped usher in the multimedia revolution on the Internet, but the software platform has fallen onto hard times over the last few years. The proprietary nature of Flash and its long line of security problems have led …

Qualcomm opens up framework to bring deep learning to mobile devices

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Qualcomm Technologies Inc. believes that mobile devices are the next frontier for deep learning, the artificial neural network technology behind recent advances in speech and image recognition. So today the company released its Neural Processing Engine software development kit on the Qualcomm Developer …

Elon vs. Mark: Musk takes a shot at Zuckerberg’s ‘limited’ view of AI

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Tesla Inc. co-founder and Chief Executive Elon Musk has made no secret of his worries about the dangers of unregulated artificial intelligence research, and today Musk criticized Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg for dismissing concerns about AI risks. Musk’s and Zuckerberg’s companies are both …

Your Roomba’s digital map of your house could be for sale

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Robotic vacuums like the Roomba have made it easy for even the laziest people to keep their floors clean. Now, Roomba maker iRobot Corp. has found another use for the little robots: building maps for other smart home devices. Some of the smarter …

Asian ride-hailing service Grab gets $2B to take on Uber

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Singapore-based ridesharing service Grab is looking to go head-to-head with Uber Technologies Inc. in Southeast Asia, and today the company got a major boost for that effort with $2 billion in financing from Didi Chuxing and SoftBank Group Corp. According to Grab, this is the largest …

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