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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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Apple announces HomePod speaker, augmented reality support and more at WWDC

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. kicked off its weeklong Worldwide Developer Conference today with some major announcements, including one entirely new product: the new HomePod smart speaker, Apple’s long-awaited answer to Amazon.com Inc.’s Echo and Google Inc.’s Home. Apple also announced expanded support for virtual …

Google Sheets now lets you build charts with machine learning

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Google Sheets may not have the same clout with businesses as Microsoft Excel, but Google Inc.’s spreadsheet software may have one-upped Microsoft Corp. today with the introduction of charts powered by machine learning. Creating charts from spreadsheet data is relatively simple, but according …

Password manager OneLogin compromised by data breach

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

OneLogin Inc., the provider of a single-sign-on password management service, announced today that it has suffered a data breach that may have put user information at risk. While OneLogin admitted the breach today, the company did not reveal to what extent its systems …

With new Skype, Microsoft is copying Snapchat too

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Microsoft Corp. has just given Skype a major facelift, and the 13-year-old video chat app is starting to look an awful lot like Snapchat. The Skype app has been completely redesigned with a hipper, more colorful interface, and Microsoft has added a few …

Amazon engineer lets Twitch play the stock market with his money

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Most people would not want a bunch of random strangers playing around with their money on the stock market, but that is exactly what Mike Roberts is doing through Twitch, Amazon.com Inc.’s popular live streaming platform for gamers. Roberts is a Seattle-based software …

CrowdJustice raises $2M to let people crowdfund their legal battles

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Legal battles can be incredibly expensive, which can make it difficult for the average Joe to take on governments or major corporations. U.K.-based startup CrowdJustice wants to fix that by allowing people to crowdfund their legal cases, and today the company announced that it …

Uber fires self-driving car chief accused of stealing Google’s tech

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Uber Technologies Inc. has fired its top self-driving car engineer, Anthony Levandowski, the former Google Inc. employee who is at the heart of the Waymo Inc. lawsuit that accuses Uber of using stolen technology. Waymo, which is the name of Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car division, …

Raspberry Pi Foundation merges with coding charity for kids

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

The Raspberry Pi Foundation, the United Kingdom charity organization behind the tiny Raspberry Pi computers, announced today that it will be merging with CoderDojo, a coding club for children between 7 and 17 years old. According to Raspberry Pi Foundation Chief Executive Philip …

Baidu’s text-to-speech AI can replicate hundreds of accents

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Virtual assistants give our smart devices seemingly human personalities, but despite their efforts to sound like real people, programs such as Apple Inc.’s Siri and Microsoft Corp.’s Cortana still sometimes sound a little robotic. Chinese web giant Baidu Inc. aims to change …

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