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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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Facebook says government requests for user data are on the rise

BIG DATA By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. today revealed its numbers on government requests for user data for the first half of 2016, and not surprisingly, those requests are on the rise. According to Facebook, the number of government data requests rose by over 27 percent this year, with the …

Lumus raises $45M to push its augmented reality displays

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Things are starting to heat up in augmented reality, and with recent stumbles from juggernauts like Magic Leap, it is still anyone’s race. That is good news for companies like Israel-based AR startup Lumus Ltd., which has just closed an impressive $45 million …

Microsoft launches AI network to fight blindness in India

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Machine learning may not be able to solve all of our problems just yet, but it is starting to make significant strides in improving healthcare. This week, Microsoft Corp. and India’s L V Prasad Eye Institute launched the Microsoft Intelligent Network for …

Facebook says its post metrics were wrong again

APPS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. offers advertisers a wide range of metrics about the users who see and interact with their posts, but this week the company revealed that some of those numbers may have been a bit inaccurate — again. “We’ve uncovered an issue for …

Move over, Facebook: Reddit has a fake news problem too

APPS By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

Reddit is seemingly one of the most democratic communities on the web, allowing users to vote up good content while voting down bad content and spam. But this week, journalists Phil Harper and Jay McGregor proved just how easily advertisers can game the …

Europe activates its GPS rival, Galileo

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

As anyone who got caught up in the Pokemon Go craze this summer can tell you, the Global Positioning Satellite system is still not as accurate as we would like. That’s about to change in Europe thanks to the launch of the new …

Researchers teach an AI to compose music like Bach’s

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID10 YEARS AGO

First artificial intelligence conquered board games. Now, it’s going after classical music. In yet another example that no job is safe from automation, Gaetan Hadjeres and Francois Pachet from the Sony Computer Science Laboratories in Paris say they have trained an artificial intelligence …

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