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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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‘Robocar’: Roborace unveils its self-driving electric race car

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Startup Roborace Ltd. today finally unveiled its long-awaited self-driving race car. “Robocar” is a fully electric vehicle that can reach speeds of up to 200 miles per hour without any input from a human driver. It has been roughly six months since Roborace revealed …

ZeniMax files injunction to halt Oculus Rift and VR game sales

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Earlier this month, game publisher ZeniMax Media Inc. won a hefty $500 million copyright infringement case against the Facebook-owned Oculus VR Inc., but it looks like ZeniMax isn’t through yet. Today ZeniMax filed for a permanent injunction against Oculus that would prevent …

Embark wants to make self-driving trucks without getting rid of drivers

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Hot on the heels of the new lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc.’s self-driving truck company, Otto, a new self-driving truck startup called Embark has just launched with some impressive tech. Founded in 2016, Embark aims to revolutionize commercial trucking, which it calls “the …

New livestreaming service wants to be Court TV for the web

APPS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

America’s fascination with true crime has been reinvigorated thanks to the success of shows like “Making a Murderer” and “The People v. O.J. Simpson.” Now, an upcoming livestreaming platform hopes to capitalize on that interest by airing high-profile courtroom trials as they happen. …

Alphabet’s Waymo says Uber stole key parts of its self-driving tech

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Waymo Inc., which began its life as Google Inc.’s self-driving car division, today filed a lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. claiming that the ride-hailing service stole some of its autonomous vehicle technology. Waymo released a statement today detailing its complaint against Uber, and …

Google’s Perspective uses AI to fight Internet trolls

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Internet trolls are notorious for saying some of the worst things imaginable online, things that no sane person would ever say in real life. But tracking and removing those comments manually could be a full-time job for web administrators. Now, Google Inc. …

Zappar raises $3.75M to make AR and VR content creation easy

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

The success of “Pokemon Go” last year proved that augmented reality can be big business, but few companies can afford to build their own AR or virtual reality apps from scratch. Zappar Ltd. hopes to solve this problem by offering an AR/VR …

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