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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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Google’s Uptime app lets you watch YouTube with friends

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Area 120, Google Inc.’s in-house startup incubator, has launched a new app called Uptime that allows users to watch and react to YouTube videos together, making the popular video streaming site a more social experience. Currently available for iOS only, Uptime is …

Even with AI, people are still the driving force of innovation

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

The dream of artificial intelligence has been alive for about as long as we have had computers, if not longer, and thanks to recent advancements in hardware and machine learning, that dream is now more real than ever. And it has potential not only …

Chowbotics raises $5M to expand its robot chef business

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Chowbotics, a robotics startup that specializes in automated food preparation, announced today that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding from Techstars Ventures, Foundry Group, Galvanize Ventures and the Geekdom Fund. The company, which is changing its name from Casabots, was founded in …

Facebook launches 360 video and photo app for Samsung Gear VR

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. today announced the launch of Facebook 360, an immersive photo and video app for the Samsung Gear VR, a mobile virtual reality headset that is powered by technology from the Facebook-owned Oculus VR Inc. According to Facebook, users of the …

Google acquires Kaggle, a data science competition platform

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Updated Google Inc. today revealed that it’s acquiring Kaggle Inc., a data science community that hosts machine learning competitions and offers collaboration tools for data scientists. Founded in 2011 in San Francisco, Kaggle calls itself “a platform for data science competitions,” but …

Doppler Labs accuses Bose of copying its augmented hearing tech

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Doppler Labs Inc., maker of the Here One smart earbuds, has filed a lawsuit against Bose Corp. claiming that the audio electronics company’s Hearphones copy the design and features of Doppler’s own products. Founded in 2013, Doppler specializes in smart earbuds that allow …

AI makes Google Translate better at Hindi, Russian and Vietnamese

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Google Inc. announced in November that it would be using an artificial intelligence technique called neural machine translation to completely change the way Google Translate understands languages, with the ultimate goal of creating a universal language translator. Today the company came a little closer …

Shazam hopes to make augmented reality an advertising venue

APPS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

For years, many have hoped augmented reality would give us the flashy science fiction future we have always wanted. But for now, it seems that we will have to settle for advertising mini-games. Today, song lookup app Shazam became the latest platform to introduce AR …

Facebook turns to AI to offer support to suicidal users

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

There is no shortage of studies linking social media use with depression, but Facebook Inc. believes that social media can also be used to promote mental health. Today the company announced a few new features aimed at tackling suicide on the social network. “Facebook is in a …

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